@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Or MotU Final Word / Borland Sprint, SCRIBE descendants on the PC?

@nprofile1q... This antenna build shows my approach of building banana connector links in detail:
https://forum.makerforums.info/t/a-compact-ham-radio-linked-dipole-antenna-with-3d-printed-parts/94519?u=mcdanlj

When I wrote that, I didn't know you could solder RSE — I thought you'd need a crimp fitting. Is soldered RSE durable? Does it wick up solder?

@nprofile1q... Team 2mm banana connectors represent!

I use 3:1 or 4:1 marine heat shrink with adhesive. It stays in place, and is stiffer, so it protects better against solder embrittlement.

I use 2mm banana connectors for radiating elements, not just radials, and I put a loop of dacron twine on the female end to easily tie to my throw weight line. The marine heat shrink holds it in place. I also shroud the female end entirely in heat shrink which distinguishes it handily from the male end without needing a different color of heat shrink.

I use the same technique for links in linked antennas, too, with the same dacron twine carrying the load.

(For my elevated radials that are held up by tension, I used 4mm banana plugs for additional holding force.)

@nprofile1q... Whereas I generally like the GTK ecosystem and my GNOME involvement goes all the way back to being part of the team that first integrated GNOME into Red Hat Linux (as it then was). I don't think it's terrible.

From time to time I try KDE and keep discovering that it's not for me. No disrespect intended; I just prefer GNOME.

I don't think it's generally unhealthy; I am complaining about one particular exception, from my point of view. When I say "exception" I'm not making a claim of uniqueness, but I am saying that it's exceptional in my own experience.

If I weren't overall happy with it, I'd be using something else and my top post would never have been written, because I wouldn't have run into the nuisance.

It's the fact that I like the ecosystem overall that makes that post even possible.

You do you, we have different preferences.

@nprofile1q... I tried using Dark Reader to put a web site that has only the horrible eyestrain-inducing dark mode into relaxing, easy-to-read light mode, but I couldn't make it work, so I gave up and uninstalled it.