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Justine Smithies

Hi thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm Justine I'm a marine electronics engineer to trade which basically means I install / repair anything on a vessel from satellite internet and sat TV to autopilots, radars, VHFs and navigational equipment. Other than that I've been a #Linux user since around 2000 and even worked on the distro LRs Linux that basically compiled from scratch according to the users hardware and was LFS based. My current daily driver is #ChimeraLinux and my WM of choice is #RiverWm
I am currently migrating my #homelab from #Ubuntu to #FreeBSD.

11 Aug 2024 at 22:24 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
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element

@justine Wow, absolutely awesome 👌

11 Aug 2024 at 22:46 | Open on masto.es
Ander
💞 eva 💞

@justine welcome! that's a proper migration, very nice choice. :freebsd_logo:

12 Aug 2024 at 2:00 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
supernov

@justine With that introduction, that's an immediate follow. :)

12 Aug 2024 at 6:24 | Open on fosstodon.org
visone
Psyhackological

@justine wow... Speechless.
Give also maybe some background about how did you get it to here.

12 Aug 2024 at 7:14 | Open on mastodon.social
C.B.Leslie

@justine what's the weirdest thing you've fixed on a boat?

12 Aug 2024 at 10:05 | Open on hachyderm.io
Justine Smithies

@cbleslie Hmmm that's a difficult one because what you might class as weird might me normal to me as there are things onboard that you wouldn't expect. I mean a classic is most skippers call you down for a remote control or wireless trackball isn't working. You ask if they've tried new batteries and they just stare blankly at you. There's everything from firesticks to radars. Nothing would surprise me anymore.

12 Aug 2024 at 10:11 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
EnigmaRotor ⁂

@justine being interested about radiocomms since my teens (well… 30y ago!) I’ve been reading a lot about radio navigation and marine HF broadcasting.
Did you have the chance to fix/install HF Radiofacsimile devices? To me, these devices were just « KISS » principle applied. I get great pleasure from decoding these broadcasts at home, while I have no special interest in marine weather itself. I think the analogue FSK principle of the device appeals me, (much more than JPEG), and the free over-the-air HF broadcasting, far from any satellite usage fee, for the public interest of safety, seems so fundamental to me. I guess It matches basic principles of « open source » « free software », and that might explain my interest in both utility broadcasting and free software. Long life to HFFAX ! Long life to RTTY/SYNOP and others ! Some day, as it was the case with LW broadcasting, DWD will stop emitting, because of costs or « obsolescence ». This day will be a hard day for me. Until some satellites get targeted by some enemy and maybe shortwave will regain some unexpected love…

@justine being interested about radiocomms since my teens (well… 30y ago!) I’ve been reading a lot about radio navigation and marine HF broadcasting.
Did you have the chance to fix/install HF Radiofacsimile devices? To me, these devices were just « KISS » principle applied. I get great pleasure from decoding these broadcasts at home, while I have no special interest in marine weather itself. I think the analogue FSK principle of the device appeals...

12 Aug 2024 at 18:17 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
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