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Re:Sudan woke up without Internet by JshWright on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @08:39AM (#28999639)
"Ham" isn't an acronym and shouldn't be written in all caps.

Using ham radio as an internet replacement (even for basic communication) isn't exactly trivial though. I have all the necessary bits lying around, and years of experience with the topic, and it would still take me quite a bit of fiddling to get a functional AX.25 link up and running (and that's just my end of it).

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Re:Sudan woke up without Internet by kingcharles on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @12:43PM (#29002676)
I was going to fire back and nitpick your use of lower-case Internet, but I see the tide has changed and I'm now on the losing side of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet
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Re:Sudan woke up without Internet by JshWright on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:47PM (#29006055)
I wouldn’t really consider HAM/ham to be a nitpick though… If I capitalized a random WORD in a sentence, wouldn’t that look odd?
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