Onno (VK6FLAB)

Consider that any gift with a monetary value is likely something that they will need to report.

Sending two cards, one to them and one to their boss is one way to show your appreciation.

If you’re not sure about their boss, send the second card higher up the chain.

If you don’t have mobile coverage, the local library or community centre. MacDonalds is also a popular option.

There are plenty of other names and I’d be surprised if the ones you used are the oldest or even the most popular.

I found that it didn’t all come off on the first attempt. I used a cool shower and washed it off. Soap didn’t seem to help, but if I recall, it was a few years ago, sorbolene did help wash it off.

Ultimately it’s likely still in your pores and causing grief. I was still pulling hairs off days later.

I didn’t need an immediate result, so not quite the perilous journey that you are experiencing.

Good luck.

Also, the word you’re looking for is: “headless”, as in, “headless install”

The traditional way is to use a serial console from another device.

I was born in Australia, moved to the Netherlands as a child and as an an adult moved back to Australia where I am now.

I had no access to or use of a car until I was around 23. Up to that point I lived in a country where you could cycle for most of your daily routine, take the bus a couple of times a month and the train sporadically.

I moved to a country where cycling was for the poor and foolhardy, me for several years, and public transport was atrocious.

Public transport has marginally improved, my bicycle hasn’t been used for 20+ years and our household has one car.

Learning to drive is a process. It takes time. Just like learning to fly a plane takes time. If you have a need to drive, learning how is step one. In my country even when you pass your test, you are required to keep a logbook for at least two years and drive in a variety of conditions before you can actually upgrade your probationary licence.

Welcome to the community, we’re all still figuring out what to do with it :)

When you want to reconnect with the hobby, after looking after yourself, look for my callsign, VK6FLAB. I have produced a weekly article about the hobby for the past 13 years and there’s plenty of suggestions for things to do and learn.

Based on what you wrote, referencing burnout, I suspect that the issue isn’t that you need a hobby, it’s that you need to make time to do nothing at all.

Go for walks in nature, away from technology, walk alone or with friends, laugh, tell stories, share secrets and dreams.

The more you do, the more resilience builds up, the better you can cope with stress and work.

Only then might you find joy in a hobby. For me it was Amateur Radio, but it might be different for you.

Start with reading Wikipedia articles.

This won’t answer all your questions, but it will give you paths to investigate.

Some articles will be written as if you already know the subject matter, but they should give you enough stuff to keep digging.

This won’t give you a degree in any of this, but it will give you plenty of puzzle pieces to build on as you see fit.

The 2FA codes are just images. You can save them where you like. No requirement to backup your 2FA “to the cloud”.

Just make sure that your storage is backed up.

Wow, those comments are a dumpster fire.

Not sure what Derek 's best response might be. I’m thinking that this video will likely be taken down and replaced by one without a sponsor.

The comments here in relation to the arcane nature of fax machines might not be aware that often this relates to legal requirements to receive physical proof.

Interestingly, nobody has to my knowledge challenged the wisdom of this requirement in court. At the end of the day, there is no real way to prove your identity using either a letter or a fax.

Using email, you could exchange an electronic key in person and know that the sender has the agreed key. Note that it still doesn’t prove the identity of the sender.

I’d email it as an attachment.

In Australia the local post office has fax facilities.

There are literally libraries full of them.

There are many quotes that describe this phenomenon:

“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.” – Henry David Thoreau, 1857 [1]

I picked that version because it was short. In other words, it takes time to remove superfluous text, something that takes practice. Previously I found that Xitter character limit helped hone the skill.

I have written a weekly podcast article about the hobby of amateur radio for 13 years and I’ve learnt that the better you understand a topic, the more concise you can formulate your thoughts.

Einstein put it like this: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” [2]

[1] Source: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
[2] Source: https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings/albert-einstein-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-enough

Who cares?

Facebook is a cesspool of spam with an owner who in my opinion appears to think that “Soylent Green” is an instruction manual…

It turns out that some clients don’t show my name together with my account. My name is Onno.

Thank you, that’s not something I knew, the three clients I’ve used show both the account and the name.

Edit: This is weird, my current client (Connect) shows the name, but only for my account, not for any other account.