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NireBryce
@NireBryce

I'm so tired of the pace of technology meaning no one can improve anything they make because it's obsolete and out-competed in two years unless you keep up with whatever new fad.

all the phones still break just as fast and in the same ways as 2009.

all the phones still browse the same web pages, just slower now. they can play games, too, I guess. but who really uses their phone for non web stuff? i even most apps these days are just a slightly different website running in an app, with local storage, that somehow needs full access to your device because no permissions are granular enough. Like how Android needs to give apps access to your camera in order to upload things from the photo folder.


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unfortunately you need a smartphone, but if you only need to recieve, an RTL-SDR dongle (20$ from RTL-SDR blog, it'll need an antenna. antenna kit is cheap and doesn't feel worth 15$, but it does get good range, if you're stationary. you'll want a less clunky antenna if you intend to be portable), a USB-A-receptacle to USB-C-plug adapter, and SDR++ on android gets you CB, police, and air traffic, though the police ones are more and more encrypted these days.

as a bonus you can also use it to track ADS-B if you've got a small enough antenna

sort of. I had a lot of interest in it until I realized there wasn't that much interesting for me in particular to do, and not having enough time to dedicate for that little. but a lot of that is due to not having much time or energy in general.

I know about SDR things because I run an ADS-B tracking station to get free enterprise accounts on all the plane tracking websites (and my own data), but outside of SDR I don't know much. Or, I know the theory but the uses don't really interest me outside of things I don't need to be licensed for like LoRa meshes.

If I had more local people I'd probably be a lot more excited, but as it stands connecting with people in distant locales is something I already do, much faster and much more contentful. I know it's different, and cooler, but I've already got too many projects :)

it's a cool hobby, ESPECIALLY if you don't already know electrical engineering concepts. I've just already learned most of what I can from it, and the rest (antenna math, mostly) is so high effort and high mysticism that I'm not really pursuing anything at the moment. I'm sure I'll change my mind on this in six months.