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Years had passed since I had touched a soldering iron when I decided to pursue animal medicine. After so long, feeling like I was useless and a waste. I decided to make numerous changes. Career and hobbies both developed through years of hard work and introspection. Animal medicine is something that brings numerous wonderful, amazing, challenging aspects to my life. Technology has a balancing effect; in the sense that: I don't really care. I have now seen things that involve life and death on a scale that has helped to put so much of our world into sharper perspective. I love technology, and always have. I love to play with things and see how they work. I tinker and poke while reading a manual. Fun!! I don't have to worry if my patient attached to the ventilator will be alive tomorrow morning, any longer...
Amateur radio came into my life (again...) and immediately brought with it inumerable avenues to explore. So many sciences wrapped into a single community/hobby/resource is something we can't ever lose in society. Not that it will, I hear that hackers are becoming amateurs; or is it, amateurs becoming hackers... That makes perfect sense. Here's a hobby full of the knowlegde base and half the time, as an amateur, we have exclusive access anyways. If hams aren't doing it actively, just give it some time, or look elsewhere. You'll find people experimenting with anything and everything. Even with half the community holding tight to older tech; there are many that use the latest and greatest. Some, push the envelope and use things they cobbled together in their shack. So cool! The redundancy factor is another aspect of the hobby that I feel goes badly unnoticed until emergencies rise... When there aren't any cell phones or internet, the hams still have their IP mesh-nets and other redundancies in place able to communicate through these times.
Ultimately, it put a command line under my nose and forced me to relearn syntax. The ham community helped tremendously through this time too! Reaching out and donating old hardware, or allowing the use of theirs, to encourage my path in the hobby. I've lived on the command line ever since and refuse to have anything else for personal use.
My most recent adventures have led me here to SDF. As well, some poking around with AI and LLMs... *
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