It’s raining so I thought I’d do some junk electronic exploration. I’ve got a Bush CDVBT2 Freeview Box from 2016. It’s got RF out, RF in, Ethernet, HDMI, Scart and 12V DC in. Opening it up I’ve identified a serial port.
#junkElectronics
#scavenge

An #Osprey (#PandionHaliaetus) gives Fox (the #photographer) a side-glance. The #fishhawk, as it is sometimes called, has excellent #vision, and can quickly dive down out of the air, nearly submerging themselves in the #water, to catch #fish. They are also called #riverhawk or #seahawk. Their #diet is mainly #fish, but they will eat other small #animals. They rarely #scavenge.
This osprey is siting on a pole at the #Apopka #Wildlife Drive in #Florida. When Fox began triggering the #shutter, the #bird heard the sound and glanced around to make sure Fox wasn’t up to anything more than #photography.
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/side-eyed-by-an-osprey-heron-and-fox.html

Post-weekend hobby-carnage.

#scavenge #salvage #repurpose
#sewing #electronics #hobby

Since I keep losing the link, and really enjoy browsing, but have not bought have a look at this site.

https://www.brokenbargains.com/

#scavenge
#ewaste
#reuse
#repurpose

This account isn't my first dance with Mastodon, but the first dalliance was so brief it may as well be. It's kind of funny that I did make a second attempt in the midst of the great bluebird migration, but this was the next step in my attempt to emancipate myself from big tech, streaming, and the algorithm. My first step happened because I hate ads with a passion, so I was paying for Spotify. I hated knowing the artists really weren't getting paid, and that Spotify seemed to be up to some shady shit, but I didn't know what to do about it until my job hosted an electronics recycling day... and in 2022 I got my first iPod. I dug out my hardrive from my first laptop and dumped all my old music from highschool on it, and y'all, my shit was WEIRD. It was a lot of fun getting reacquainted with my old tastes, and I started tracking down my newer stuff and adding it, but then I dropped my ipod and it couldn't play anything anymore with out skipping or freezing...

So I cracked that fucker open, dropped in a 256GB flash card, plopped a battery in that lasts me a week or two, downloaded Rockbox, and now I have a friggen FLAC player that can hold a quarter of a terabyte of music (apparently if I had any other model I could go in excess of a terabyte, but alas, mine has limits). I also gave it a new blue and rainbow anodized case, so this device is unmistakably MINE, which is such a rare thing in this age of identical glowing rectangles.

Then google started pestering me about running out of storage (amateur photographer woes) so I decided if I was going to have to pay anyway, I would damned if I gave any money to google... Hello Proton. Hello my first VPN. What can I do with that, I wonder?

The nicest thing about sailing the seven seas is now no one is trying to jam their movie and TV choices down our throats. I collect massive amounts of media now, largely spurred on as a response to the bloodbath that was the HBO/Discovery merger, but I only watch what I want to, which these days are mostly older shows that aren't designed to hook me into a binge. Getting to sit down with my partner and watch an episode of TNG or Northern Exposure, or Dinosaurs a few times a week feels a lot healthier than what we used to do... And cheaper. But now my samsung phone is acting up and asking for more and more permissions, and instagram still has it's hooks in me, and fuck it, rational or not, google can fuck right off...

So I got a refurbished pixel and converted it over to LineageOS. Suddenly my phone feels like a tool again. I use it when I want to, and I don't constantly have an algorithm serving me ads or media choices (I used Barinista for a bit, but it was like a nicotine patch that was super effective at weaning me off of insta. Thanks so much @austin for that!)

It took me a long time to start doing this. I've been talking about wanting to start gaining tech independence for years. I think a lot of it is my very ADHD tendency to want to do all or nothing. Of needing to know exactly what I was doing, how I was going to do it, and understanding it, and I am not a technologically savvy person. I just stumbled my way through this. Converting my first test phone (an old nextbit robin I dearly loved but that is too decrepit to use as a daily driver) to LineageOS took me three months. A day of frustration, a lot of downtime, and then a night where I decided I wasn't going to stop until it worked. Progress isn't linear. It was daunting to start all this, but my relationship with technology now is very different than it was over a year ago, and it's going to continue to change. I've become very interested in decentralization and community level mesh networking, repurposing old tech, trying to to make tech personal and fitting the needs of myself and my community. I want to help more people find their own way out of the walled gardens and algorithmic stupor. I want to help folks get started, and I want folks to help me and each other continue to gain more independence and help our tech better reflect our communities and their values.

#tech #technologicalemancipation
#techemancipation
#bigtech #lineageos #vpn #piracy #scavenge #solarpunk #streaming #spotify #netflix #hulu #ADHD #algorithm #ifixit #fixit #diy #repair #ipod #classicipod

The Rewilding Podcast Episode 5: To Wander With Intention
In this episode I speak with my friend Bartle about her experiences on walkabouts, leading animal processing camps, running, and much more. #walkabout #trailrunning #wildernesstrek #minimalism #wildernessliving #backpacking #hiking #wander #rewild #rewildingpodcast #rewilding #rewildyourself #barefoot #leavenotrace #survival #wildernesssurvival #bushcraft #outdoors #wild #desert #barefootrunning #diy #scavenge
https://youtu.be/t-SzwfQsvBA

Improve your chance of surviving after #SHTF by learning how to #scavenge for #survivalsupplies #shtf
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-04-15-survival-how-to-scavenge-supplies-after-shtf.html

Improve your chance of surviving after #SHTF by learning how to #scavenge for #survivalsupplies #shtf
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-04-15-survival-how-to-scavenge-supplies-after-shtf.html

Learn how to #scavenge for supplies safely after #SHTF #Prepping
https://newstarget.com/2021-07-19-prepping-tips-scavenging-the-city-when-shtf.html