Onno (VK6FLAB)

Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.

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  • It goes well beyond bother.

    In my opinion, the biggest issue is that software with a GPL licence is not permitted to be distributed without making the source code available, which Red Hat restricted to only paying customers, and in doing so added a licence restriction which is not permitted by the GPL.

    They are now profiting off the work of every developer who ever contributed to the software they’re selling and none of those people are getting paid.




  • I use Debian for anything that matters. The release cadence means that stuff just works and keeps working. You cannot beat the documentation and I’ve been using it for 25 years.

    I’m not touching anything Redhat / Fedora with a barge pole.

    Not sure what the attraction to Mint is.

    Never used OpenSUSE.











  • There are at least three legal ways to do this. CB radio, ISM frequencies and amateur radio. I say legal because the radio spectrum is heavily regulated because every transmitter affects everyone else to more or lesser extent.

    You can buy CB or ISM band radios and get started.

    Amateur radio is a better option in my opinion. There are many more frequencies to experiment with, people who can help and people to talk to.

    Amateur licensing is different in each country, but an introductory licence is often no more than a weekend course and exam. I know of nine year olds who have done this. It’s not hard. No Morse code required either.

    With such a licence in hand you can use things like JS8Call, CODEC2, Olivia, WSPR and hundreds of other protocols to communicate using just a radio and a computer.

    Disclaimer: I’m a licensed amateur in Australia and have been since 2010. I hold an introductory licence, here it’s called a Foundation licence, and have been having an absolute blast with all that I can do.

    If you have specific questions, don’t hesitate to ask.



  • I read that you’re manually tagging them, so your process can be whatever you want to do.

    For example, you can leave the images in their current folder structure and create a separate folder structure with symbolic links to an image, so in the character folder would be symbolic links to all the images like that. They also don’t have to be unique, an image can be in multiple categories.

    Alternatively you can use a spreadsheet and generate lists there.

    Finally there are plenty of photo album applications that allow you to tag images.