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[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

that's gotta be $3500/mo just for it

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 3 points 8 months ago

the thing is in specific ways much older, i think that if you want to stretch it the first people you can credibly accuse of being ai bros were alchemists trying to cook homunculus, or trying to get infinite knowledge out if philosophers' stone

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

can you pull ethernet cable along power cables, wherever they are?

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 4 points 8 months ago

regular ethernet should work on this kind of distance, but it means digging

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 13 points 8 months ago

and only feels cool and useful when you're learning to write

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Mate do i have just the right thing for you, but it requires some soldering. It's also probably cheapest solution working over longer range than you need

First you need two directional antennas. Use this https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/cup.html the 13cm design specifically. Design of the dipole element is on another page https://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/wumca/sbfa.html They're using hard to get semirigid coax but you can really just use common RG178 with braid tinned to make it stiff. This way you don't have to leave D section they way they did, you can just solder core to the shield at the end while preserving total length (or ~1-2 mm less, because wifi is slightly higher frequency; 53-52 mm total). That dummy cable thing can be just any stiff piece of wire. Good way to get this would be getting a pack of u.fl-SMA pigtails, which you can also use for connection.

You also don't need special aluminum housing like they do, cookie tin of the right size would be sufficient, or any other container of similar nature. If you can't weatherproof it, putting it inside on windowsill is also fine

Then, plug TL-WN722N into it, or some other single-antenna thing, and you're set. This one connects over USB and has removable RPSMA antenna, so you can connect it easily with correct cable (SMA plug - RPSMA plug)

to your new directional antenna. This thing works well over 200m distance, provided clear line of sight, and probably more than that

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

in my country it used to be like this for 50 years, you get flat rate per day, counted up to fractions of day, separately for accomodation and food + everything else. you only have to keep transportation tickets

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 7 points 9 months ago

behold, disruption

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