It’s not like you don’t have European-owned datacenters. Migrate that shit!

No wonder how hard it would be to bridge mesh core in MQTT in my area.

The same government officials paying to use it are probably the people mainly invested in it.

Sooo, Digg started to monetize, Manipulate the feeds for money, allowing Reddit to swoop in and steal their lunch. Doubled down as the platform emptied, now 15 years later, they say Trust me, Bro?

There are 4 in my metropolitan area, and I don’t have line of sight to any of them :(

There are about 30 meshtastic in the same area, but most of them are out of range to each other.

I even stood one up at work on the other side of town and mqtt’d them together.

edit: a’ight I put it on a t114. can’t see anything from the house, track practice is 25mi away, lets see if there are any quiet core nodes out there.

edit: edit: Nothing at all. Which is a fing shame, the client is way nicer, it’s better on battery. It’s better on battery on the t114. The map is faster. I think it’s probably a better product since you can kind of emulate the client/router setup and it can work like meshtastic. Maybe I’ll leave my of my v3’s running on it in the attic with a modest antenna upgrade.

So, I setup meshtastic.

Put an antenna on my roof.

Have a decent number of mesh radios. Put one in each car in relay mode.

Setup a locally run LLM and made an interface to it.

Working on setting up a BBS.

I’m in the high density suburbs, I can, when the weather is just right, reach a single node that doesn’t seem to be able to reach any other nodes.

If I go on a drive, I can see 5-10 nodes.

Adoption in the mid-Atlantic US is just so damn low, it’s not really usable.

We need some antennas up high, but there aren’t any reasonable options around me.

Because it had nothing to do with AI

It was an excuse to slash the workforce with relatively little backlash.