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)

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

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 think modern games in general hold your hand too much. Some small level of hand holding/tutorial is fine, but so many take it way too far. I’ve gotten bored of a lot of games before they actually started because of that.