Thanks! I’m sure most of these cheaper handhelds are going to work basically the same for transmitting.

I think one of the bigger AliExpress sales is later this month, spring sale or something? I’ve been leaning towards the Quansheng mainly because of all of the custom firmware available. I didn’t realize it could pick up NOAA alerts. Have you played with the spectrum analyzer?

The TD-H3 also has a pretty wide receive range and a nice looking screen (annoying text printed on the side of the screen though…would have been better left blank)

Assetto Corsa (assuming mods are included) and Factorio (again, with mods, but to a lesser degree).

I remember borrowing it from the library back then (well, a few years later anyway), it still sticks in my mind!

Using the arrow keys to go to the entry and pressing shift+delete works for me

The Jeffrey Combs panel is a great one

Thanks! Looks like I already bought it on Steam at some point in the past though :)

It’s showing me $28.74 to remove ads in Canada right now (maybe more than the 26.25 mentioned due to tax % difference)

Never thought about that before, but it looks delicious.

On my current instance since Jun 4, I can’t even remember if I had joined a different one before that or not. Beginning of June at least. Basically abandoned R* at that point.

I might have almost destroyed a monitor with bad XFree86 timings on Slackware once or twice. Pulled the plug on that thing pretty fast.

I’m pretty sure I used one that was terminal based, likely using ncurses. Without searching, I can’t recall the name of it, though.

I used XMPP a bit among friends, more so when Google supported it, which was probably after ICQ/AIM/MSN wasn’t as popular? I don’t really talk to many people anymore, so whatever, heheh :)

It would be nice to see XMPP make some kind of “comeback” … or some sort of popularity boost like mastodon/lemmy/etc in recent times.

I’m a big Baxter fan, never really read anything by Pratchett somehow, and I ended up with the same opinion pretty much. I gave up reading after three books, they just didn’t seem to be going anywhere or anything really happening. Great idea, it just ended up being boring.

My daughter reads a lot of books checked out via overdrive on her kobo (in Canada), though the search feature on the kobo itself is kind of garbage. We have better luck doing a search with the Libby app on a phone, checking it out, then syncing the kobo.

I use a Kindle myself (purchased on one of the good sales for roughly half price), though primarily via epub files transferred to the Kindle using Calibre. It’s a busy UI, but it does work well and has lots of features. Pretty good as an archive of your ebook library.

Scorched Earth was awesome, never got a lot done in computer classes at school because of it :)

Awesome, thanks! Definitely going to give it a try tomorrow.

Edit: Seems to work good so far, it’s just what I wanted - something minimal and easy for viewing on the instance I’m using. Beats the quick little bookmarklet I made which was only good for specific pages.

Google literally didn’t exist when I first was thrust into vim (well, vi) a large number of years ago ;) Pretty sure I eventually gave up and closed the terminal window - dialed directly into the university’s unix server. Can’t remember which version of unix it was, though.

It was probably the default editor for tin, the usenet client I was using. At least pine used pico as its editor which was a bit more friendly.

I just installed the Turtle Wow private server client, with a handful of patches and addons that make it run a lot nicer. I have no interest in giving Blizzard any more money, but I’ve had an itch to play wow lately. And I think it’s cool they are expanding on vanilla things.

Edit: I’ve given the hardcore mode a try, currently only level 6 :)

I’ve tried audiobooks before (which are highly dependent on the narrator, obviously) but haven’t really enjoyed them. Too often I realize I hadn’t really been listening for a good chunk of minutes. Might be a good option for at work, but I have to pay attention to things outside of my immediate workload :(

I haven’t read it yet, but was planning on picking that one up at the library when I return this one. I’ve heard it was good from my friends that have read it.

I’m finally reading The Martian by Andy Weir, picked it up on a whim when I brought the kids to the library on Saturday and I’m almost finished it now. I’ve actually had it on my Kindle for a while but never got around to starting it. I’m enjoying it, looking forward to reading his other books soon.

I read mostly on my Kindle, but I prefer (and miss) reading actual books. But most of my reading is done when its dark and not always able to turn on a light.