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Waking up feeling refreshed and actually rested was a nice change of pace this morning. I did a lot this weekend so I was supremely exhausted Sunday evening. Started watching some Youtube content about the recent GPU releases and fell asleep far before my normal bedtime. Woke up in the morning with YT still running on some absolutely unhinged niche rabbit hole about battle strategies of various skirmishes during WW2, which is completely unrelated to any content I ever consume lol.

As a chill person who likes to take things slow and deliberate, but is living in the greater Boston area where everyone is in a rush for no reason and nobody slows down for even a second... Trade?

I recently took a trip to the Netherlands, and that is the kind of place I want to be. Not even just Amsterdam, I traveled to a couple other smaller cities. The "You mind your own business and don't be a dick and I'll do the same" mentality was very pleasant, as that's how I try and live anyway... Interestingly, I talked with some Dutch guys while I was there, and they all seemed to hate it, and one of them wished to move to the southwest USA and live on a ranch with tons of land or something. The classic "You want what you can't have". I want affordable reliable robust public transit, walkable car-free infrastructure, and healthcare lol.

It's funny, I was JUST hankering to take my SW out to browse the airwaves, and then I log on to see this post.

I have a Halicrafters S-119, still runs on tubes. Picks up 2-16MHz.

I already spent some time rummaging around for my antenna, but I can't find it and don't have a spool of wire handy, so I'll need to work on that. Last time I had it set up was a couple years and 2 moves ago.

Mmm, like writing myspace profiles back in the day... I kinda dig that!

Thanks again for tackling that so quickly! I honestly didn't expect anything for a long while!

Amazing! Thank you! Definitely works.

Though, will it eventually become a checkbox for the specific hide score feature? Or could there be some kind of documentation for the other portions of the interface that might be able to be modified with this? An open-ended text box to put some code seems like a good way to confuse people who don't know the underlying code. It kinda feels like the old days of hunting for cheat codes in game magazines.

Interestingly, the score is still visible in the page inspector, but I'm not THAT addicted to post score, so it's not a problem lol. (I went to check to see what the page code looked like to try and understand what exactly was happening)

That solidifies my suspicion that it's a standard Android feature... I also don't get many spam calls, and only distinctly remember performing that action on this most recent phone.

Based on OP's comment "...I always assume that rejecting the call outright will also be detected as a deliberate action and therefore a person is on the other side...", I figured maybe they didn't know about that feature and/or have an iPhone and they somehow don't behave that way.

I also miss the old days of Android... I got a smartphone specifically to play Pokemon go in 2016 lol, up until that point I was still rocking one of those Casio Gzone indestructible flip-phones. Walked into WalMart, bought the cheapest LG whatever phone I could find (Android 5 I think?), caught a bazillion Pokemon. I remember buying multiple batteries for longer sessions, because you could just pop the back off and replace it on the go.

They run a custom vendor-locked distro named QTS, so they're not really as easy to modify as a normal system, I don't think you can even install programs like that.

I'll definitely bookmark it though if I ever get around to building my own solution, thanks!

At least on the default web-view, if you hover over the score, it displays a tooltip with both values.

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Displaying both instead of relying on the hover tooltip that probably doesn't work well on mobile should be even more trivial than hiding the value, but again I just think in if statements.

I don't know if it's a universal thing, I've never bothered to research further. On my several-year-old Oneplus phone (Android), if I single-press the power button, it mutes the ringer and vibrate but the call doesn't end or reject (I could still then go and answer or reject the call normally, it doesn't affect the user interface, just the ringer/vibrate). That's how I've been "rejecting" unknown calls for a long time. A simple, elegant solution that doesn't give the caller any hints.

I have no idea if it's a QNAP-wide issue, or just some specific models, I haven't bothered to do that much research. I'm guessing that the discs WOULD spin down if you have that option selected if they weren't constantly being pinged a couple times a minute. That constant pinging is the part I can't seem to track down.

An excerpt from a post I was reading while researching this sums it up prettt well: "700 posts about spindown/sleep/standby not working in the QNAP HDD Spin Down Forum. No one seems to be able to resolve it. Qnap clearly couldn't care less."

The only solution that I've found that seems to work is to install some other operating system on it, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying a turn-key NAS, and is slightly outside my comfort zone right now. I just ordered a kill-a-watt, so I'll see how much power it's taking with/without drives and go from there if it's worth my time to dive into an OS swap, or building a custom rig.

I'm very excited about this weekend.

Some new friends I made recently invited me to a craft night at their house with a few other people on Saturday. This may seem mundane, but I haven't actually went and hung out with a group of people since before the pandemic. I lost a lot of my good friends and connections in ~2020, none of us were particularly good at long-distance friendship, plus in the 5 years since, I've had multiple dysfunctional relationships that have kept me out of the "real world". Since I'm newly single again and have no intention of dating anyone anytime soon, I'm working to get back in touch with some friends I haven't talked to in a long time, make new friends, and get back out there and work on my social life. This simple craft night is really my big first step, and it means way more to me than these friends might ever know. I'm sure it will be great fun, but I'm still a little nervous!

On Sunday, I'm going to a picnic! Another activity I haven't participated in in many years. A political action group I joined has a really tight-knit core group of 6-8 of us that I've become really good friends with, and this is our first "extra-curricular" activity outside the scheduled events and weekly meetings. I'm very excited for this, too, for almost the exact reasons as above. I have no idea what food I am going to bring... Maybe I'll throw together a fruit bowl, that'd be nice and refreshing.

Just posts/comments. It's a place for lighthearted, general conversation, and a place to be friendly.

I'm also pretty new, but I understood it as basically just like random ice-breakers or questions or conversations you'd have with some stranger you just met at the bar.

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