i have this one:
and this one:
i use the TC4 more frequently just for the LCR function.
I have the Hantek one but lent it to a friend and havenāt asked for it backā¦ 
It has some weird frequency response issues on the higher voltage ranges so I donāt really trust it. And yes, I checked the trimmer cap thatās located right after the relay on the frontend.
Most of those things have sample rate, interpolation, and acquisition problems that are likely going to make me reach for an actual oscilloscope anywaysā¦
The one from Owon looks ok. But Iām not sure about Zotek and Fnirsiā¦ Reviews with comments along the lines of āyou didnāt read the manual, you have to disable power saving to get the full bandwidthā donāt inspire a lot of confidenceā¦
Iām casually looking for something better. It doesnāt need to have all the features, but it must be relatively accurate and have a flatish frequency response. Iām looking for something more practical than my real oscilloscope, but if itās not good enough, Iāll end up using the real thing insteadā¦
NGL, the Fnirsi DPOS350P looks good on paper, but Iām hesitant to buy one as there are few reviews, it appears to have some interpolation weirdness, the specs look too good to be true, and it advertises said specs instead of having useful features like protocol decodingā¦
Look at the Owon HDS200 line, it has BNC inputs and itās about as big as a large multimeter. This one is probably the best option TBH. But I still have to get one so take this with a grain of salt.
Okay I did a thing. I finally got the NExT installed in my left hand earlier this week, i can reliably scan both sides with my Flipper and the HF side with my phone! Iāll try to play with some access control stuff next week 
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This is why I donāt trust most cheap scopes. Iād be more willing to but those things if they stated the real specs of the product. In fact Iām looking at a 40mHz one that sells for a similar price. Honesty goes a long way when it comes to customer loyalty.
Somehow an anecdote about electronics and how I buy test gear kinda ended up looping back to DT and how Amal managed to earn my trust. DT has set the standard in my head for a trustworthy company.
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I meanā¦ theyāre just coming right out and saying it. We all knew phones donāt actually power downā¦ thatās why the battery is no longer a user serviceableā¦ but to just come right out and say it so overtly like this. They know we still wonāt give a shit.
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there are definitely some archival grade DVD and Blu-ray discs that I was able to find, but so many of them are still severely limited in capacity.
I think for now what Iāve decided to do is utilize a two bay NAS with a couple of 14 TB HDDās. There are some really awesome disk mismanagement tools for Linux that can assist with archival and data curation/indexing that Iām playing around with.
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Android started doing this about 5 updates ago.
I just wish it was opt-in so I could use that extra battery juice
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Part of why I think biohacking is so important, is that itās the turning point for this kind of thing.
Once the tech becomes part of our bodies, it becomes obvious that the user should be in control of it, own it, rather than it being a corporatist fish-hook to own us. I see biohacking as the opportunity for people to finally understand why FOSS and market ethics matter for consumers.
If we miss that opportunity, I see no hope for the masses. It terrifies me, some people on r/transhumanism were actually arguing that government ownership of human organs is preferable to individual ownership of their own organs. ā¬Totalitarians to the left of me, corporatists to the right. Here I am now, stuck in the middle with you.ā¬
DT is a good crowd to be stuck with. This forumās my refuge populated by sensible people.
Anyway, to reel that back in from ideals to something practicalā¦ Iām working on reducing my dependence on my āsmartā-phone, looking to replace it with a real phone plus an offline PDA (such as the M5Paper open-source e-ink reader ) or a lightweight wearable PC. If it can do habit tracking, scheduling, and flashcard study, then itās replaced the last of what I use my phone for.
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That is very cool.
Word processor. Iām going to go indulge my sudden urge to continue reading Ted Nelsonās āLiterary Machines.ā
Busy for months with no snow???
and you have had a change of profile picture
good to see you back
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Iāll have to go through it, thanks for the title.
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Busy loosing weight, getting more tattoos and piercings, interior renovations for my motorhome, Had a busy 2 weeks beginning of June because it was under 50degrees and I got paid to sit and watch movies next to airplanes for hours every morningā¦
And now Iām busy waiting for a shipment of glow powder to show up.
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Some of you probably know this, but in 1997 some enthusiasts shot a video called Troops which was basically an episode of the tv show Cops but set on Tattoine in the Starwars universe in a parallel timeframe to the events of A New Hope. It was a brilliant peice of parody. Loved it. To the point I am apparently still referencing it.
Anywho, skip to today, and Iām cruising youtube and the algorithm offers up a vlog style recording of troopers on Hoth. And frankly, Iām kinda stoked. Then I look for just a second at the channel name, and it basically screams āA.I. Slop.ā Looking at the thumbnail, I can see it just looks tooā¦ Smooth? Yep, looks like slop. I just clicked on the ādonāt recommend this channelā button and moved on.
Itās kinda killing me how having access to the kind of un-dreamt of levels of creativity tools is only really producing the crappiest of quality. Maybe people only strive their best when itās the hardest to do, but I miss the days when people would swing wildly, and drive the kind of homerun that makes you stand up and cheer.
Anywho, Iām gettinā old as fuck.
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Oh this is very interesting. I have drone swarms in my nightmares already.
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Mosquitoes are bad enough as they areā¦ I donāt care if those are real or just political propaganda, anything small that flies around me is getting squashed anywaysā¦
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Yup. I think the threat of drones, regardless of their size, is going to become much larger and and get here pretty quickly. Whether those are real or not right now seems irrelevant because they very likely will be a reality. Iām just imagining sitting in my house at 50 years old entombed in a Faraday cage lol
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Oh! Edition 87.1! The copy I found was only the Third Edition. Thanks for the link.
Better than the recent Disney shit