A better timeline?

Windows UI design peaked with Windows 98 and Unix UI design peaked with IRIX imo

Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn’t the best idea lol

Tune into Citizen’s Band sometime if your country has one lol, it’s a mess but is entertaining

As long as harmonics are properly filtered

So, those harmonics I mentioned, for the FM broadcast band between 88 MHz and 109 MHz, they’re between 176 MHz and 218 MHz.

Guess what?

They’re allocated to other services, specifically television and digital audio broadcasting.

but I’m not convinced that it would “get folks interested in radio”.

People are put off of amateur radio because so many hams are extremely cop-brained and expect everyone should have to comply to century old rules and norms about how to operate otherwise it’s assumed that you’re just blowing up the spectrum

I am a licensed amateur and the only thing that changed from when I was unlicensed is that the boomers on the FM voice repeaters around me won’t yell at me for interrupting their conversation about their ex-wives or whatever now

Good RF circuitry has never been easier to make/acquire now that we live in the era of semiconductors

low power isn’t a thing. My legal amateur radio beacon uses 10 milliwatts and has been heard 13,945 km (8,665 miles) away.

Yeah and my WiFi router blasting 10 times that barely makes it through a couple of walls

Completely dependent on conditions and equipment

I can guarantee if you power up a “low power FM transmission” that the FCC will come and find you and rain hellfire on you.

Also, lmao, there have been some high-profile cases and they have the PIRATE act now but there’s still lots of pirate FM stations out there lol

Pirate radio is cool and good

Lmao, I love when libs have to do the disclaimer when talking at all about the USSR

Like: yeah, I’m a socialist… but wait just to be clear the USSR was a totalitarian Russian ethnostate that was basically Nazi Germany but slightly less bad and they weren’t really socialist, just wanna be sure you understand my socialism isn’t that

Socialism is actually when the government does stuff , like free healthcare

Not saying this person is even that, idk their politics but obviously nothing good

Ahhh sweet redoing the pronouns struggle session on another instance

This is completely enforceable, the only instance I know of that doesn’t allow changing your display name is Hexbear and that’s cuz we use that field for displaying pronouns lol

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I am so tired haha

Okay but it was less , relatively to now

Ohh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print ? when it doesn’t recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can’t figure out how to exit lol

I also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol

Tbh if I’m just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao

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Ate a snack cake thing I got yesterday, and then discovered a warning about lead and cadmium on the back of the package

If you like Unixy editors, highly recommend also looking into acme

Russ Cox describes it in this video as more like an “integrating development environment” as in it works with your surrounding operating system rather than an “integrated development environment”

Doesn’t shine as much on Unix as in Plan 9 though. Also no linter or formatter built into or distributed with acme but you probably could get your language’s usual tools to work pretty well with it

Ed is the standard text editor.

Curious

Linux is based? Pls don’t talk to me or my wife’s IRC server ever again.