It seems the same things keep being posted multiple times, usually by bots. I have blocked bots, but they still show. It's gotten to the point I've had to start blocking them, and users the post the same things that have already been posted here multiple times.
Get rid of them I say.
I have bots blocked and they still show up in comments. I think it only blocks bots from main posts.
I don't personally mind this particular bot, but most of them are annoying so I block them all.
Corsair intends to keep Drop as a separate brand within the company
I'll give that about 6 months before they "have to merge" and the layoffs begin.
The AC-130 is my favorite plane.
Printables seems pretty superior at this point.
Your definition of emergency communication is way off. Sure you can use some app for training for that situation, however it's the least reliable way to get communications out in an actual emergency where others are actually going to hear and respond to it.
The best communications in an emergency, are those that are the most widely used. Which would be voice first, CW second. Having to carry around a phone, to use some app that someone else has to be actively listening to using another phone that is held up to a handheld, is not how I would want to be doing things in an actual emergency.
I also wouldn't rely on vara during an actual emergency. Sure a it's fun to play like using vara or a ht held up to a phone is going to help in any way during an emergency, but if you are relying on them, you are doing it wrong. I certainly wouldn't want my life to depend on them.
seems awesome for recreational and emergency communication
In an emergency, using voice or CW will be heard by a lot more people, and understood by them a lot easier, more reliably, and better than having to have an app on both ends.
Don't get me wrong, it's cool tech (after I figured out what it actually is), but it should not be presented as useful in an emergency. In an actual emergency, the last thing that should be done is flaffing around with an app on the phone, and making sure someone on the other end happens to have the app installed as well.
After their crypto crap, this doesn't surprise me one bit.
And don't give me that "You can disable the crypto" the fact is, you shouldn't have to because it shouldn't have ever been included in the first place.
Personal attacks. That's the end of the conversation for me.
And threats as well with the "think carefully before you reply". Great way to have a conversation.
And those are the types of excuse that keep them from even trying. "Well you didn't pay us enough, so we aren't going to even try. By the way, your cost of membership are going up, because membership numbers are plummeting. Totally not our fault though."
People (like me) are pretty fed up with the hands constantly being shoved asking for more, while getting less and less for what we give.
As long as corporations view it as a way to make more cash, it will never be safe. I'm really hoping the ARRL does what amateurs are paying it to do, and fight this tooth and nail. Sadly their track record doesn't give me hope at all.
I have a couple, including the one running my lemmy instance I'm posting this from. They've all been pretty good for me. I don't push any of them hard or anything, but I've not had any problems.