I see a lot of people complaining bitterly about battery life, but mine seems to do OK. I wonder if it's a firmware issue or something. (In particular, I've seen complaints that it drains its battery significantly when powered off, which mine absolutely does not do.)
I have never owned a Baofeng (and probably never will; I do not like that they frequently have very poor spurious radiation characteristics, and people act like that's not a problem!). My first mobile radios were Kenwood and Icom, my first HT was a Standard (before it was acquired by Vertex and then Yaesu), the mobile in my vehicle right now is Yaesu (FT-7800), and my packet station (when last set up) was an Icom. I'm not particularly tied to any one brand, as you can see. :-) (Most of my HF equipment is tube type, so it doesn't enter into this equation!)
I rather like the FT-7800; I think it's much easier to use and has a much better UX than the FT-70. That said, in 2023 I would expect more; it's been in my vehicle for probably 15 years, now. I don't know if the replacements (I don't actually think the FT-7900 is that much newer?) address some of its meaningful shortcomings like lack of reasonable USB programming support (for real people, why do these radios not simply expose a well-documented HID or serial interface?), but as far as day-to-day usage, the 7800 is quite fine. The 70 ... is less so. As I said, if you don't actually have to change anything, it's not bad, but if you have to change things it gets hairy fast.
Well ... I tried. I found out I had more to say than I thought. ;-)
Sadly I didn't see any SDFers, but it was a great day for a hamfest. A friend of mine passed the tech test, but the FCC web site is down, so without an FRN it's going to take a few days to settle.
Yes, with the link direct it works, but searching for terms such as "emacs" and "elisp" it did not show up. Lemmy does not seem (as far as I can tell, so far) to federate things like hashtags, which is how Mastodon finds things like this. At the very least, it feels like it should be federating community names!
I have/had nothing to do with retrocomputing on any large corporate sites, but I'm a mod on https://retrocomputingforum.com/ and look forward to seeing what happens here. I don't necessarily need or want a mod role, but I'm happy to help out in any way I can.
It looks like there is lemmy.ml/c/emacs, which I was unable to discover using the search bar on my instance.
I've seen chatter on Mastodon that kbin will view lemmy communities, but lemmy doesn't correctly view kbin magazines. I don't know if it's accurate or not. I have been able to join lemmy communities on other servers, however.