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Although thinking about all the nuclear takes I am constantly bombarded with online maybe giving folks another medium for self expression isn't the best idea lol
Tune into Citizen's Band sometime if your country has one lol, it's a mess but is entertaining
As long as harmonics are properly filtered
So, those harmonics I mentioned, for the FM broadcast band between 88 MHz and 109 MHz, they're between 176 MHz and 218 MHz.
Guess what?
They're allocated to other services, specifically television and digital audio broadcasting.
but I'm not convinced that it would "get folks interested in radio".
People are put off of amateur radio because so many hams are extremely cop-brained and expect everyone should have to comply to century old rules and norms about how to operate otherwise it's assumed that you're just blowing up the spectrum
I am a licensed amateur and the only thing that changed from when I was unlicensed is that the boomers on the FM voice repeaters around me won't yell at me for interrupting their conversation about their ex-wives or whatever now
Good RF circuitry has never been easier to make/acquire now that we live in the era of semiconductors
low power isn't a thing. My legal amateur radio beacon uses 10 milliwatts and has been heard 13,945 km (8,665 miles) away.
Yeah and my WiFi router blasting 10 times that barely makes it through a couple of walls
Completely dependent on conditions and equipment
I can guarantee if you power up a "low power FM transmission" that the FCC will come and find you and rain hellfire on you.
Also, lmao, there have been some high-profile cases and they have the PIRATE act now but there's still lots of pirate FM stations out there lol
Pirate radio is cool and good
Ahhh sweet redoing the pronouns struggle session on another instance 
This is completely enforceable, the only instance I know of that doesn't allow changing your display name is Hexbear and that's cuz we use that field for displaying pronouns lol
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I am so tired haha
Okay but it was less 
, relatively 
to now
Ohh, I know, I was just making a joke cuz ed will print ? when it doesn't recognize a command and many people will see that over and over if they can't figure out how to exit lol
I also got lost in vi and ed when I first used them lol
Tbh if I'm just making quick edits to config files or whatever I use nano lmao
Windows UI design peaked with Windows 98 and Unix UI design peaked with IRIX imo