[-] elb 1 points 1 year ago

Shift+SPC is not able to be represented on a TTY, due to the way that input is encoded. It should be possible in X11, but my Emacs also does not seem to register it.

[-] elb 2 points 1 year ago

I have a set of GPIO boards for my PDP-11s, I've been wanting to turn one of them into a G-code interpreter.

[-] elb 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure it will; as I said, I have heard that subscribing to kbin from lemmy is not currently working, from users on mastodon. (I just tried that search and it indeed did not work, for me.)

[-] elb 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] elb 1 points 1 year ago

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.)

[-] elb 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] elb 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] elb 1 points 1 year ago

It looks like there is lemmy.ml/c/emacs, which I was unable to discover using the search bar on my instance.

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