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Humphreys posted:Do you guys not have public safety advertisements advising on things like this as X season approaches? We get poo poo non-stop during cyclone season and same with bushfire season. All radio stations (including commercial) broadcast what to do, who to tune into and other useful information. We're talking about Texas here - people would probably shoot at a public safety advertisement.
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Humphreys posted:Do you guys not have public safety advertisements advising on things like this as X season approaches? We get poo poo non-stop during cyclone season and same with bushfire season. All radio stations (including commercial) broadcast what to do, who to tune into and other useful information. Along with most rural fire servie stations turning their sign into a reminder to check your fire survival plan. It hasn't been needed this summer cuase where I live it's been so cold and wet the trees think it's already autumn but last summer where my town was ringed by fire for weeks on end it was real loving important cause we had our plan if the fires crept close enough that we had to bail at a moments notice including what to do with all of the important docs and things like the cat. My gf was slightly sad that we'd have to leave the fish behind to be steamed in their tank but theres no real option with that.
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Feb 18, 2021 10:22
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Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM. It doesn't seem like there's a good replacement for them, either. My phone is supposed to receive emergency alerts, but it's never once shown me one even as tornados rolled through.
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Feb 18, 2021 11:10
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PBS runs WARN now, which blends traditional EAS alerts with connections to cell providers to in theory push geotargeted alerts. Obviously a lot more there to go wrong in getting the alert to the right person over "banner on TV station" but they're trying their best. https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/contact-information/warn/ You can see a live map of all alerts here https://warn.pbs.org
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Feb 18, 2021 15:12
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Minor point of order, I’ve seen umpteen instances of where folks let their taps drip (note: drip, not run) in TX and still had their pipes freeze up; though they got some cool sink icicles though. TX and Deep South housing just isn’t built/insulated for this sort of thing. NJ deals with worse all the time but they have infrastructure built to handle it. What I’m saying is he should have shot the pipes with his AR-15 and I hope the folks at subway let him in to get food.
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Feb 18, 2021 15:36
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Dip Viscous posted:Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM. I would bet the phone alerts are reaching more people than radio/TV alerts ever did in the past.
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Feb 18, 2021 15:52
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You should always leave the taps running a bit when it gets really cold, especially if you're not home and thus not using them. I guess no-one teaches that to people in Texas? But a FYI just in case one of the five people reading this thread are in the same position! I'm in a part of the US that's only gotten snow twice in the past 45 years. I also lived out in the sticks, not just a rural area, but the more rural area outside the already rural area. I don't know if it was just something that was taught to previous generations, but if it even hinted at 32 degrees, my parents always advised to leave the taps dripping. They also wrapped up the pump in old blankets and/or put a heating pad on it just in case. Our pipes never froze. There were probably very few times they were really in danger, but that was not a risk my parents were going to take.
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Feb 18, 2021 19:27
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Dip Viscous posted:Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM. I get emergency alerts on my phones, especially on my personal phone. I did sign up with the county so I think I get extra that way. When the wildfires were in full swing last year it got a little freaky hearing that emergency tone from multiple cellphones in the house, staggered by which carrier they use. I've got them for flood risks and I think curfew notices during the protests last year, too. It probably varies a lot by state/county/carrier.
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Feb 18, 2021 20:07
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Great fun diggin the Mac IIfx out of storage, two bad SMD caps (the rest were tantalums) had popped during the last 2 years. Seems this also drained the RTC battery completely (like 0 V on it). While I was in there I also swapped the PSU fan for something a little less deafening. Installed a proper mount for the scsi2sd instead of stuffing it in a plastic bag, which makes it looks a lot more pro. Ordered an RJ45 capable network card, a ROM-i-nator II just for kicks, and a 64 MB RAM kit. Big next TODO is to find something better than the stock Toby video card, 640x480 is getting a bit cramped and most monitors don't like it (except of course for a 24" 1080p monitor, so everything is super wide). At least it has the extra VRAM to support color mode. Will try to put a LM1881 based card right on the old graphics card to maybe make it output standardish H/VSync instead of CSync+SOG. Got it running A/UX 3.1 from the pre-made scsi2sd image, then set up two extra virtual drives to run 7.5 + one spare. Old Unix systems are weird but at least the original Apple docs aren't terrible. Can't really do that much right now since I don't have a network and floppy juggling is getting old, but at least I got MacX working so it can run xeyes.
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The Wurst Poster posted:
In it voted 5 Also The Wurst Poster posted:dumpster dived G5 imac 
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Feb 18, 2021 21:05
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It sort of stinks that morphos is $80 I guess I’ll just keep trying to get macOS reinstalled.
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Feb 18, 2021 21:06
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Dip Viscous posted:Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM. I live in a high tornado area in Canada and we got a ton of TV alerts this past summer. I think they were being pushed through the cable box though, I don't know if I would have got the same OTA.
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Feb 19, 2021 05:49
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:It sort of stinks that morphos is $80 I'd still see like to see how OpenSUSE did on it. I'm not sure if other distros have a PPC port or not.
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Feb 19, 2021 07:23
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'd still see like to see how OpenSUSE did on it. I'm not sure if other distros have a PPC port or not. Bet NetBSD would work fine.
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Feb 19, 2021 07:34
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Dip Viscous posted:Are safety broadcasts are close to being relics? The last TV my parents bought didn't have any sort of built in tuner, and I didn't have anything to receive over the air broadcasts until I got a portable AM/FM radio a while back specifically for listening to local weather alerts and news. Cars still have radios, but everyone I know with a car listens to their phone instead of FM. FM radio still exists? Surely it's nothing but back to back commercials by now. In my area, I get alerts via my phone. But it comes via some Google app on my Pixel phone. If there is any type of NWS alert, I get a popup and an audible alert when it is first issued. The alert also shows on the default weather/clock widget. If it's supported in your area, sign up for Nixle: https://www.nixle.com/ It is a free service that sends alerts directly from local/state/fed agencies to you via text or email. My local county and city governments send all their alerts into it, so I get some pretty localized alerts.
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Feb 19, 2021 18:53
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stevewm posted:FM radio still exists?  (Ok, we still have a few local stations. The rest is DAB+, though.)
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Feb 19, 2021 19:44
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Computer viking posted:
Ahh DAB.. North America went with HDRadio/Ibiquity. A digital signal that rides on the existing analog frequency as a sub-carrier. The main digital channel is just a simulcast of the analog channel, but some stations do have 1 or more sub channels.
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Feb 19, 2021 20:24
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Apparently my cellphone will pick up FM radio if I plug in wired headphones but I've never tried it out.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Apparently my cellphone will pick up FM radio if I plug in wired headphones but I've never tried it out. A lot of Samsung and Motorola phones do/used to do that. IIRC, the chip was pretty cheap if included with a bunch of the other radios.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:12
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Digital radio still exists? As I recall where I live it was largely just a failed experiment you could only receive on set-top boxes and TVs with the digital TV signal. I've never seen a DAB radio anywhere ever, and frankly I really don't see what benefits it has that are worth doing to the switchover compared to just staying with good old FM.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:42
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Ruflux posted:Digital radio still exists? As I recall where I live it was largely just a failed experiment you could only receive on set-top boxes and TVs with the digital TV signal. I've never seen a DAB radio anywhere ever, and frankly I really don't see what benefits it has that are worth doing to the switchover compared to just staying with good old FM. Oh yeah, FM is basically a legacy tech being kept alive by some local radio stations for the time being here. The UK has national DAB coverage but maintains a fair few FM stations. I think there's a few other countries that are still working to replace it, too? As for benefits - until DAB, we had like 1.5 radio stations at our cabin; with DAB you get the entire package everywhere, with more channels than almost anywhere in the country had before. The sound quality is a tradeoff - digital at mediocre bitrate is better than bad FM and worse than good FM. At least it's predictably tolerable?
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Feb 19, 2021 22:04
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We have "HD Radio" in the US, and it's, uh, okay. Not incredibly high adoption as it seems to be limited to high-end receivers as far as I can tell.
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Feb 19, 2021 22:45
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DAB not only still exist in Europe but it’s illegal to sell fm radios without DAB support, which lead to Samsung and others to disable radio apps in firmware to avoid fines
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Feb 19, 2021 22:54
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azurite posted:We have "HD Radio" in the US, and it's, uh, okay. Not incredibly high adoption as it seems to be limited to high-end receivers as far as I can tell. I think most new car radios support it, which can lead to the radio bouncing back and forth between fm and digital
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Feb 19, 2021 22:58
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It was still an optional upgrade in the 2020 model-year car I bought. Which, by the way, was the worst timing imaginable.
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Feb 19, 2021 23:07
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The UK DAB situation is particularly hilarious as in their rush to  I'd rather listen to AM over this sloshy, squelchy bullshit
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Feb 19, 2021 23:58
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FM: a few quite similar stations DAB: dozens of quite similar stations, except with the fidelity of telephone hold music and every now and then it sounds like your radio is being waterboarded
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Feb 20, 2021 00:23
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an actual frog posted:The UK DAB situation is particularly hilarious as in their rush to Techmoan has you covered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27w3quNTP84
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Feb 20, 2021 00:52
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HD Radio sounds like garbage. Its like a low bitrate RealAudio stream added on top of the regular FM signal, yeah there's more high frequency content but it sounds swishy and grating. And the feature of having sub channels fell victim to more stations/lower quality thing satellite radio did and every station decided they need to cram in as many as possible so again, the bitrate is low and it sounds worse than regular radio or a basic Spotify/Pandora stream.
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Feb 20, 2021 01:12
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It’s quite insane how many FM stations there are where I live in the US compared to where I lived in the UK. I don’t even wanna look at the differences on AM. HD Radio isn’t just ok high end stuff, I have a few clock radios that support it. Nothing else though. I subscribed to XM, which also feels like a dying format, simply because one 10 minute journey I took a while back didn’t have a single song. Commercials the entire time.
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Feb 20, 2021 01:56
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EL BROMANCE posted:I subscribed to XM, which also feels like a dying format, simply because one 10 minute journey I took a while back didn’t have a single song. Commercials the entire time.
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Feb 20, 2021 02:26
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I’m just too lazy to write SiriusXM, ha. I never had either when they were separate so can’t really compare much. The Netflix is a Joke channel is good when I’m driving for a few hours, keeps me engaged.
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Feb 20, 2021 02:45
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There is only one program I listened to on Sirius so now I just listen to it once it gets uploaded to YouTube like a day later 
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Feb 20, 2021 02:49
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I like the smooth jazz station Watercolors on sxm 
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Feb 20, 2021 03:12
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they should completely decriminalize pirate radio in the US. The AM/FM bands should just belong to humans now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZVhfbgCsw
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Feb 20, 2021 03:17
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I've been living in Asia for the past decade and I completely missed that FM was on the way out lmao. That said I remember like five years ago when I went to visit some family in the US they had some satellite radio thing I'd never seen before in their car and it would abruptly cut out every time we went under a motorway bridge and take like another five seconds to come back online after coming out the other side.
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Feb 20, 2021 03:20
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"We're decades ahead of the rest of the world  " *drives into a hole and dies*
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Feb 20, 2021 03:23
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I remember the pirate radio station that used to air in Panama City, fl back in the mid 90s. The call sign would play at the top of the hour: "You're listening to pirate radio, we ain't got no loving call letters"
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Feb 20, 2021 03:36
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The best FM station near me is run out of the local high school. Those kids have great taste in music.
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Speaking of old tech that's still around: Web radio. There's something fun about diving into local radio from a second-tier town from rural Peru or whatever. radio garden is neat - and I'm sure there are more normal directories out there. (To contribute, Norway's NRK has their at https://radio.nrk.no/ . Apologies for the interface. Try P13.)
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