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@sonic_owns My kids all just got a little bit older (still around the house, just not little ones) and I realized all of a sudden I had a little bit of time to play again. And I hate to say it but LLMs also made it easier for me to not worry about the Linux-y “how do I run this as a service”-type questions and focus on the more fun stuff.

@sonic_owns It’s a Nooelec NESDR - also an RTL SDR but v5. I got it over the pandemic to see if I could pick up shortwave (with a HAM it up box).

I’m sure you could use yours to listen for the meters in your area too. This post (not mine) talks about how to do it: https://pdx.su/blog/2024-03-17-reading-my-electric-meter-with-rtlsdr/. Sadly our electric meters here are “smart” so they have encryption, but the gas and water meters don’t!

@sonic_owns Don’t tempt me with a good time. I just finished setting up my SDR to listen to my gas meter over the radio for no reason whatsoever.

The nice thing keeping me from using this one is that I don’t have anyone on the other side to text!

@sonic_owns I have no need for this and yet it looks like fun to play with.