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E-Bikes

Finally got back to the Harley project yesterday. Switch is ready to test it has been sunny and nice for almost a week. This morning is 53° and the wind is blowing things around outside like a hurricane !

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I need to take some shots of the wiring job, when it warms up a bit, sigh !

All of this is because the 10 year old front brake light switch quit working. That is the spot on the plug that is really dry rotted. The clutch switch on the other handlebar is bad as well, I am gonna learn to live with it !

laughinghard

Post Your Last Purchase

I just bought a Yaesu FT-7800R mobile VHF/UHF transceiver from the daughter of a silent key (ham radio operator who passed away). It's an emotional transaction for her, because this was the last of the ham radio gear of his to sell. I assured her that I would give it the honor and dignity it deserves and be a worthy successor of his vehicle's radio. All I need now is a good antenna for my Explorer.
That's not a bad radio. I've had a few Yaesu's in the past, an 8900 and a couple of 8800's. The main difference is that the 8xxx models were dual-receive so you could have simultaneous reception on two frequencies on either the same or mixed bands. The 7xxx is single-receive so only one at a time. It only matters if you have a need to monitor two channels. Nowadays my mobile and base radios are Icoms.
Plenty of antenna options, depending on whether you are willing to drill a hole in the body and what your communication needs are (local repeaters, simplex etc).

Problem opening links in K9 Mail

There is, but nothing useful.

It's become clear the problem lies within K9 Mail. My daughter sent the same link to me and my wife. On K9 Mail it displays black and not underlined and is not openable. On my wife's S23, using Samsung Mail it displays as an openable link in blue underlined.

It also seems likely that the recent change in behaviour when tapping-and-holding (long press) must be due to a recent update.

As I said earlier I can find nothing in K9 mail settings that is relevent to opening links.

Public disgrace er storage

They should be challenged. It is not only hugely inconvenient for a person to have to obtain another instrument of payment such as a money order or cashier's check. There is also the added charge for said instrument, which may go up to several dollars. Considering how much hot water this corporation is in, how many customers they have lost, how badly they mistreat their own employees, etc., they should tread carefully. They might actually be in danger of going out of business.
believe me when i say that in the long run you are much better off buying a shipping container and using that instead of a storage facility

also keep in mind that you cant take any of your stuff with you when you pass anyway

this is coming from a screwup that has lost most everything over and over

How to Change Default Voicemail To Audio

i barely use voicemail myself, so take that in mind with whatever i think up here

have you called your voicemail and gone through all of the settings there?

also, during one or more of my bloatware/google purges, i seem to remember an app or apps related to video voicemail.

perhaps you could use the Shizuku & Canta method to eliminate the app(s) altogether and leave your device no choice but to do your bidding

Rant Thread - What really grinds your gears?

I've been putting up with a worn out desk chair for a number of years. I have a couch pillow in the seat for the foam beneath the upholstery is shot. There never was any lumbar support about the chair and it rocks a little from side to side. Recently, my back has been bothering me. The chair is a likely suspect for my pain. Today I do a search at Office Depot and they had a chair that looked about the same as my chair when it was new. It was a closeout item on sale and right in my wheel house for price. I ran to town planning on returning with a new chair. I couldn't find it in their store so I finally asked about it. The store manager brings up their site on his PC and asks which one I wanted. He then says I don't have that chair. I asked if any of the other outlets had the chair. He said no. It seemed to me it was a click bait item. I went back to look through available inventory again and found a very similar chair for exactly $200 more than the one I drove up town for. I could have bought the chair but I was far too pissed.

Reading/Writing script

Anyone here read/interpret .php log-in scripts ?
A place I Admin is having major attacks, different areas are being hit on and I even caught a Brute Force attempt !
There is obvious signs that someone is inside, such as my full Admin access was restricted, after I started banning suspected IP addresses. (It was restored by the owner who claims he did not do it and he is the Super Administrator)
The owner is looking the other way and does not want to believe the site is compromised.

I am not sure I am interpreting this one correctly, can someone tell me if this is a legit command on a message board or a hack to get in ?

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How To Delete Selected Cookies on Android Duck Duck & Firefox

i use duckduckgo as a search engine, but i hate their app.

its slow and clunky.

other than deleting certain but not individual cookies and other info, i dont know of any way to actally go into the actual app data and pick and choose what you want rid of.

some file managers allow me to view these files, but i dont know exactly what i am looking at and i cannot modify them because i am not rooted

even if i was, i still wouldnt know what i was looking at.

Phaseout of 3G Network

FM band modulation always swings the wattage up.

I used to talk alot of skip on the flat side of my beam. I used a 100 watt digital linear and on side-band and the flat side it would go a long way !

Yeah who would have thought that anything could replace that feeling .... And then came the internet !

Hy- Gain DSB, (double side band/upper and lower), with the clarifier modded to slide, as well as the dial up oscillator box, I could hit alot outside of the 27MHz band.

There was (and may still be) a CB magazine named S9. It had monthly listings of those caught exceeding the limits of radio boundaries set by the FCC.

I had a copy that had my name on the list, for years, but living like a gypsy it has gotten lost.

I had 2 agents from the FCC show up at my door one day and want to see my station .... Got me a 50 dollar fine for operating illegal power and operating on illegal frequencies ...

Lost the magazine but still have pics of the station. Oh and I still have my memories, but those are subject to retention, dependent on how much older I get !

That all was over 50 years ago !

laughinghard

NCAA Men's Basketball 2026

There is a lot of men's college basketball on this week. The lesser conferences have been fun to watch. Most of them are ending up today or tomorrow with the major conferences crowning their champions Saturday. I've seen lots of teams that I've never seen before or don't remember them. The skill level is less with the cream athletes going to the major colleges. They are still fun to watch and for the most part the teams are of equal ability and the games competitive. I enjoy close games and the lesser conferences often only get their championship team in the NCAA Tournament that starts next week. With bragging rights and a chance to play in the big dance, they are do or die games. For many, it will be the last organized basketball they will ever play. It's a great level of basketball to watch.

Samsung Galaxy

After considering the new features of the S26 Ultra, our genuine need for them and how seldom we would use them, the Darling Bride and I decided that it's not worth the $700 (with trade-in) to get the new phone. I'll wait a few weeks and see what the Moto G Stylus (2026) will offer for a far lower price.

The "I'm so old" thread game

Becoming an adult in the 1980s meant being a little child in the mid-1960s, when women were obsessed with trying to hit the "perfect" measurement: 36-24-36. They would get together for "lunch" at Woolworth's and lunch would be a lettuce leaf with a slice of pineapple on it; a scoop of cottage cheese on that, with a cherry on top; and two slices of Melba toast. That was it... and either a Tab or Fresca to drink.
yeah my grandma had those in the cottage, her name was Melba hahhaa.

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