I’ve actually switched to Ocenaudio for what little I do and have been happy.

My roommate with his ancient laptop actually wants to pay for extended support of windows 10. He won’t get another computer and he won’t switch to a different os.

There are people this dumb out there.

Reticulum doesn’t need a cellphone tower either.

There’s a v4 now? What’s new?

Reticulum incorporates much of what meshtastic already does but with redundancies that are going to prove useful under an authoritarian regime. I would point people to reticulum instead of meshtastic.

I use the term “inference machine”

And why would anyone expect Taiwan to give on this? They don’t benefit at all.

Art of the deal my ass.

Are they paying for your phone? Are they giving a stipend for your service? Then tell them to fuck off and give you a yubikey.

A Linux phone could theoretically use other networks. You could pipe traffic through I2P or bounce it around multiple network types with reticulum. It’s actually theoretically possible to make a community mesh that doesn’t need cellular at all. I don’t NEED to carry the entire internet with me everywhere. I can carry a device with a cache of stuff I need but for everything else I can just connect to some sort of network to fetch it when I actually need it on demand.

A Linux phone would let you do that. You can explore that possibility. Android and IPhone will never allow that because latency is shot on the alternative networks and they aren’t expensive enough to make a profit off of.

Because they are planning for if people rise up to fight back. It’s not about protecting you. It’s about protecting them.

Meshtastic might not be the best tool for this. Reticulum is more versatile.

I wonder, would something like an Adafruit EMC2101 be visible to linux?

dont those use special software that lm-sensors and hwmon and such wouldnt see?

wait, how are they going to “test” this?

Business majors are so incredibly dumb. Why did we as a society decide they were so important?

It’s happening….

Inciting violence was the reason given for me too. Challenging Nazis is violent to them. Don’t let them normalize this idiocy.

I checked on it again later. Was still on the porch scared when I opened the front door to check but that scared it off.

It’s always good to keep your options open. The fediverse has set up guardrails to prevent things from happening here that have already happened out there but anything can fail. I myself have an account on ramble if shit goes bad here. Always have an escape route. Have no loyalty, that will be abused.

Well yea, because it’s cute when they do it.