I'm semiseriously considering getting the old LTO3 library from work and putting it to use. Sure, it's "only" 400GB per tape but I have a literal vanload - the racking takes up the same volume as a mid-size Ford Transit - of new and used LTO3 tapes to dispose of too.

A petabyte would only be 800kg or so!

MS Teams is especially bad for this if you have a few people in your addressbook with the same name and corporate email naming gives you for example john.mcleod@place and john.mcleod2@place - oh, you messaged john.mcleod@ six months ago but you message john.mcleod2 multiple times per day? Then this time you must mean john.mcleod with no 2, this time surely!

My "patch" is basically just Scotland, about half the phone book for the north-west is McLeods, and the John McLeods alone are about two dozen pages, so duplicates are common.

Any supermarket car park, for a start.

Plus it would be handy for picking groceries so you can have a cup of tea and something to eat while you figure out how you're going to invade.

With diesel the price it is, driving a 4.6 litre V8 that runs on propane is like driving a diesel that gets over 45mpg.

I don't want a lit-up screen in the car.

I have a couple of Kanga Finningley SDRs bought through the G-QRP club, but they appear to have almost entirely vanished from the Internet.

We treat RF like your lot treat Mexican fireworks.

Why would they? It's perfectly legal to operate radio transmitters on any frequency you like, if you hold a suitable licence.

So kind of like those TV USB sticks that you can adapt into proper SDRs?

Comment, don't vote.

It's genuinely impressive.

You'd be surprised how *really* *fucking* *stupid* "smart people" are.

Even you. Even me.

Fuck off with that. It's actually important, and the HSE website has a lot of case studies explaining why.

For example you are absolutely not under any circumstances allowed to bring matches or cigarette lighters onto oil or gas related sites. You'd think that would be pretty reasonable, right? There's even a a smoking shelter with special lighters attached to the wall so people can smoke, well away from the explodey stuff. But no, "OMG 'elf an' safety gone mad innit?"

Does anyone want to know *why* matches and lighters are banned? Anyone care to take a guess as to whether or not there was a specific incident leading up to the ban?

Okay then, here it is: https://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/sragtech/casebpdalment87.htm

Read the fourth paragraph a couple of times until it sinks in properly.

A colleague of mine sometimes has described some people as "A case study waiting to happen".