u/piangero

Hi!

I've been playing around with this indoor OT antenna I got at an outlet, and I'm trying to figure out the cause of the issue.

The antenna is a "one for all SV9420".

I live within a close range of 2 towers, one a bit further away but both large mountain top towers, covering both sides of my house. Maps are saying excellent signal.

I've got the antenna at a window facing the closest tower, and the signal coming in is at around 75 - 80 and says its strong.

There are only about 3 channels OTA here + radio, so not much to choose from. I'm just doing this out of curiosity.

So, signal is supposedly strong. But quality is going from anywhere at 15 - 30 %.

So garbage. Sometimes no sound, very glitchy, stuttery, or nothing etc.

Now, my TV I am using this on is a distance from the window, and the coax cable is too short out the box, so I had to find a random tester cable to extend (I cannot swap the antenna cable cause its not unpluggable) just to see if my outlet antenna was even alive/working

Could the quality be because I am using some old, long random coax cable as an extension? Or is quality only connected to the actual signal to the antenna itself? Sorry if its a really stupid question, haha I just dont know how these things work anymore.

I wasnt too keen on buying a better extention unless I know for sure that its the root cause, especially since its mainly just a little side project.

So, if signal is supposedly good, but quality is dirt poor, is it likely the random coax cable I am using as a makeshift extension, or the actual antenna?

I spotted some satellites on the 23rd of December 2025 that I would like to take a look at again, just to see exactly what I was looking at. Is there a way to find this? I found it really interesting because it was a row of presumably satellites following in a direct line. I counted 5 or 6 just the few minutes I watched the sky, all following the exact same path across the sky.

Was just curious if there was a way to look up "live satellite maps" but on certain dates?

Hi! I'm trying to figure out a way to make some notepaper template look sort of ripped at the edges. It doesn't have to be super realistic in any shape, it's just meant to be a goofy little background thing for a drawing. But I'm struggling with how to actually figure out how to do it.

My first thought was to just use the eraser and erase parts around it. It "gets the job done" but it doesn't look like ripped paper. I then tried to experiment with a white background layer behind the paper, erasing the paper at like 30% hardness, then erasing the outer edges of the white background with 100% hardness (so it would be a transparent .png at the edges/seams. But that also didn't really look quite right. Maybe someone else has some suggestions? Maybe there already is a better tool for the job, lol? For reference, it's paint . net version 4.2.10 I'm working on atm, but I've got access to the newest version as well. I could also just take the image into PhotoPea if needed, maybe there's a tool here as well?

Hi!

My drawing PC is a bit old so I am on Krita 4.3 on it, but I am struggling to find brushes and such that work for it. I have a stamp/brush set called Muses which works fine, but when I try newer ones (Valmelmas' crayon brushes), they just wont show up. Idk if its because they're for newer versions or something. But it's getting hard to find legacy brush sets. I'd really like some nice crayon (pencil crayons based) brushes. Something similar to Valmelmas' brushes maybe?

Is there a proper way to search for brushes and resources for legacy software?

Does anyone have the Miband 9 Active? If so, is it possible to use third party watch faces or something? The ones the app has to offer are frankly so ass its crazy. And only a hand few of them count seconds for some reason.

On a side note, I really wish they'd offer dates shown as day-month rather than month-day as well.

I just want some nice watch faces to choose from, that actually display all the info I want 😭 Half the ones in the app alternate between showing everything at once omfg.