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Configure Your Meshtastic Radio Channels So That Only Your Friends and Family Can See Your Location
Category: Wiki: Internet of Things
Configuring Your Meshtastic Radio
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Toshiba Canvio Desktop External Hard Drive Disassembly
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Find Your Friends at Music Festivals with a Digital Compass Direction Distance that You Can Build for Around 50
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Using AI Assistant to Make Words that Start with a Letter from Scrambled Letters
Category: Wiki: Generative AI: AI Assistant for Scrabble Games
Using AI Assistance to Unscramble Characters with a Blank Letter
Category: Wiki: Generative AI: AI Assistant for Scrabble Games
Using AI Assistance to Unscramble Characters with a Blank Letter
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Using AI Assistance to Suggest Words that End in a String for Scrabble Games
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TightVNC Viewer "Server:port" Configuration
When connecting to multiple servers using TightVNC Viewer, it's easy to mistype a server name or port–especially when you're in a rush or juggling multip . . .

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Rio Carbon UPGRADER problem
If the wheel broken,you can try 3.04

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Wayne Dalton idrive Troubleshooting Tip #3 - Check the Motor Wiring
I have 2 I drive garage door opener's that I have had for 20 years. Great opener's except both quit working within 2 months or each other with the same problem. . . .

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Parallel DeWALT 20V Batteries for Drill-Powered Go Kart
Could anyone please help me out here, I have made a drill powered go kart and wanted to adapt it to take two batteries in parallel but not sure how essential it . . .

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Charge Any 18V/20V Lithium Ion Battery with Hart 20V Charger
Found a way to get Hart 20v charger to charge any 20v battery. There is a test point on the PCB that carries a 20v charge with a small jumper from there to the . . .

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UltraVNC Viewer "Server:port" Configuration
Connecting to multiple servers using the UltraVNC Viewer, there are many times I fat-finger a server name. And UltraVNC Viewer would remember that in the histo . . .

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Adding a Bluetooth Thermal Label Printer to Microsoft Windows 11
I am trying to find the EXE for the JK-402A printer. Can you help me and send it to my email above. I understand all of the other directions, but for the life o . . .

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Farewell to an Old Friend: WordPad's End and How to Revive It on Windows 11
For decades, WordPad has been a quiet, reliable companion for Windows users. Nestled somewhere between the barebones simplicity of Notepad and the feature-rich . . .

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Bauer 20V Power Tools Battery Interface
The TH terminal is an RTD-like connection with the charger for battery temp sensing was the answer I got. Makes sense. These are not old school batteries. Not e . . .

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Hyper Tough 20V MAX Power Tools Battery Interface
Confirmed that the 'T' terminal on the tool just expects a ~10K Ohm resistor to ground to enable one of the newer 20V Max tools (e.g. the 3" cutoff tool) to sta . . .

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Meshtastic Client Power Consumption
The 1200 mAh radio went into sleep mode, due to low battery. The last reading from another radio was around 8:52 PM with 20% battery power. So the 1200 mAh radi . . .

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Light Up EDC Las Vegas 2025 on the MeshMap!
Oh, yah, don't forget to enable "Provide phone location to mesh" as shown in the screen shot below.

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Disable Windows Lock Screen (Win+L)
Thank you! Really appreciate this hack!

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rsync with server on non-standard SSH port
Indeed, I am writing this in January 2025. The proposed solution works - and it is still not in the rsync 3.1.3 -h.

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Why Does My Android SmartPhone Vibrate Every Minute?
Thanks, Jake! I restarted the phone and the vibration stopped!

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