Millennial here. I used computers from a very young age, and when my near-continuous use became untenable, my parents got me my own: first computer was a Macintosh IIfx, then a Sun Ultra 1, then a Power Mac G4 (the stripes on the front, handles, don’t remember exact model name). Everything after the G4 has been less exciting, even if it’s all more powerful. Not sure if this is because I’ve gotten older or if the gear has gotten less fun.

Helpful, thanks for writing this. I have an FT-65R and I feel similarly. It’s a solid piece of gear, but could have had a lot more user design work applied to it at this price. I don’t know what it is about amateur radio, but it seems extremely conservative in terms of resistance to modern features and practices for a technical hobby. Not universally, a lot of SDR gear feels modern, but in many areas of the hobby things feel almost steampunk. The concepts are familiar and the hardware is capable, but the manner of implementation is of another era.

Exploring! SDF is like the coalition of servers I ran in college with friends and campus friendlies. A little of it was explicitly practical, some of it unstable, all of it educational and fun and sometimes stuff took off. I love that SDF survives, and I love that they have paying members.

When new or esoteric stuff hits, whether it’s 9front or the latest fedi service, SDF is where to see if it makes sense for you. Sure there’s home labs, but a home lab doesn’t have the community around it that we have here on SDF, which means it doesn’t give you the sense of how a service runs at scale or in the (sometimes positive, sometimes corrupting, but always informative) presence of others.

Do you know for sure you’re on it? Might just be the recent registration time of the subdomain… some mailservers are especially unenthusiastic about novel domain names, even subdomains, and then when they’ve seen enough mail from them in circulation they calm down a bit.

Yeah, there’s a few things going on here with the ones I’ve received so far -

• no dmarc for the subdomain (lemmy.sdf)
• no spf record for the source (205.166.94.11)
• no dkim

I’m sure it’s early times, but this’ll end up in the spam folders of a ton of mail services with the header as it stands today.

Cool, wasn’t sure if there were rules or anything around this. I guess as long as folks stay civil it doesn’t much matter. It’s pleasant that that’s more or less the norm in whole swaths of the fediverse here.

That license plate though!