u/ComputerTinkerer71

Guys, I finally figured out what's draining my energy/motivation: seeing my wife not being able to be herself again. She has been paraplegic for 3 years now after spine surgery to remove a cancerous tumor attached to the spine. She used to do a lot for us, herself, our daughters, her mom who just past away, and pretty much everyone she knew or came across. In the beginning, I was all into it caring for her because it needed to be done, and no one else was going to do it. My oldest daughter started to help, too. Then I needed to return to work full time. I noticed my energy levels were higher while at work but once home, I felt drained and could not figure out why. I'm getting plenty of sleep, and get a break from caregiving while at work. Then I stopped wanting to do anything on the yard, washing the cars, keeping the bedroom clean, not taking showers regularly. Then this week it dawned on me: it's my wife's state making me feel this way. I don't resent her. I resent then situation she's in and myself for not having done anything about my career so we'd be financially better. I've realized that money doesn't buy happiness but it does buy comfort in times of need. I see myself as the main cause of her health because, had I been a bit more ambitious, she would've had better health insurance and care. I cannot talk to her about this, so here it is. Posted on reddit to share with a bunch of strangers I don't know from Adam. Strangers that I'm truly grateful for listening and reading this post. Now I'm crying. Sorry! I wear my feelings on ny sleeve.

Yes, please don't hate me, but all I could afford for right now is the Betafpv Aquila 16 RTF kit. I wanted to get started so bad, but it's been difficult to put the money together. Also, with all the prices going up next month, I wanted to get what I can right away. After all this, I will come up with a plan to save up for better hardware in the future once I get used to flying FPV. The reviews on the kit have been so mixed, but it always comes out in favor for total beginners who then move on to better hardware. I feel like I'm disappointing this sub reddit and hobby. LOL
That's it for now.

Hi. I was working through a bash tutorial and a portion talked about cron jobs. I edited the crontab for both regular user and root to run a test script. In both instances, the script never ran. /var/log/syslog shows when the crontabs were edited, etc. Also there are these entries:

2026-08-13T13:36:02.393235-07:00 t1nk3rm0b1l3 wsl-pro-service[1730]: #033[33mWARNING#033[0m Daemon: could not connect to Windows Agent: could not get address: could not read agent port file "/mnt/c/Users/computertinkerer/.ubuntupro/.address": open /mnt/c/Users/computertinkerer/.ubuntupro/.address: no such file or directory

These entries are there whether the cron job was set for the regular user or root. Any insights or tips highly appreciated. This is my first time ever dealing with cron jobs. Thanks.

Hi. I wanted to break this out into a separate post/discussion.

I'm getting my Betafpv RTF kit soon and it comes with the inexpensive white charger.

My questions:

will it mess up the batteries by using it?

And, since it doesn't have storage option, should I be worried about fire hazard safety?

I mean, if it was not safe/usable, why include it, right? Well, other than keeping cost down. The reason I'm concerned is because I won't be able to get a better charger right away. Thanks guys.

Well, I took a step back to regroup about this hobby. I had the Radiomaster T8L and was practicing on the sim just fine. I just kept having a hard time deciding on the next pieces: goggles and drone. I may have experienced information and opinions overload. Get this, not that, etc. Which is all good and the suggestions were all appreciated. I returned the controller and going to start saving up to get an RTF kit that comes with batteries and a charger. I already know it'll be about $400 to get going, but at least every thing will arrive together and won't have to much guessing. I've decided to go for the Meteor75 HD kit. Of all the videos, posts, etc., the Meteor75 kept coming out on top. The Aquila kits kept getting stepped on by the community, even though some youtubers gave it good reviews for beginners. Anyways, I'll be around once I have the kit and questions/issues arise. This is an awesome hobby, this sub reddit is the best. Thanks for reading my long post. 🥰🤭