The only issue you may have with the 1W is that they will be able to send to nodes that will probably not be able to contact you back. Because they are lower power.

So while you may be able to send really well, receiving may be a bit more difficult.

Ive heard of people saying that the 1W will muddy up the radio space since its basically one node “screaming” over others. Im not 100% buying it as 1W is still pretty quiet compared to other electronics in other spectrum. But thought I would mention it.

I usually direct people over to helteks because they are cheap and you can get 2 of them in the same box. For more info you can check out the official meshtastic site.

Or check out https://rootaccess.org/wiki/Meshtastic/rev447/#-quickstart

If you go with the defaults at least at first, you can see if its something you want to invest your time into. Worst case, you have a couple of these things you can give out to a couple of ham friends. You can go pretty deep with the hobby, but its fun (in my opinion).

Im not familiar with what it does. I just saw a 15/15 and 15 1/1s. What does Annihilator do?

Whats even better is that the squirrel can stop it from attacking for at least 15 turns.

Im just imagining something like Cthulhu coming out about to destroy the word and a squirrel hurls itself at it…and now it has to wait another year for another go.

Very true!

Do you have solar setup or is it direct connect within the house?

I hope at some point, both will do interop. Its causing a bit of a splintering of the community…which really doesnt need to happen (mostly on discord and reddit from what I have been seeing). We are so small to begin with. And its not the devs doing it, it seems to be the community themselves. Which is again unfortunate.

Its like a worse pager system. But it does not use the internet or anything centralized. It makes it look like texting on apps.

First time Ive heard about Milk-V Duo S. Interesting. Looks very cheap!

You can try the about us and contact us page on

https://peertube.wtf/about/instance/home

Ive only seen this where the actual video file got removed on the server. But im not sure.

That channel is fun btw!

Interesting, I can comment on piefed (just did a test) to the comment above. But I get a new tab when I try to see the proxy link.

Im not sure. I agree with you.

All I can tell you is that my server was hammered by a couple of IP addresses. When I did a lookup they were ALL openai and they just would not stop. Until I added protection that is. Then they got bogged down and eventually stopped.

Ive heard talk that their engineers said they dont need to abide by robots.txt since they are not an indexer like google. Which is BS.

The bigger companies are looking at robots.txt to see if they can scan your stuff for AI scraping purposes. I get a couple from google, bing and others. Im not sure about facebook, but I do see the bigger ones usually abide by robots.txt and stop there. It doesn’t stop them from hammering your robots.txt though.

If you get fail2ban and/or block the ip range from one actor, it usually goes away.

The worst offenders is openai which does NOT hit robots.txt and just scrapes/DDOS my small site. Until I put in a couple of infinite loop/nefarious solutions on the server. Then you have fail2ban see what ip addresses try and go deep and block them.

Wait so both ssdand mechanical drives have been sold out…

Thats not good.

In meshtastic, you can manually set the location with long/lat.

Ive seen it where people dont update that while they go on trips.

Also there is MQTT so if the node can communicate with the internet, its possible.

So other than matrix, is there any other open source system that people recommend?

Ive had a heck of a time with matrix for years. Im glad it exists, but its just not what I like to use. The signup process + logging in system is much too complex for a normal user.

Interesting! This is what I was looking for thanks. Ill give them both a shot.

That looks interesting! If I want something like txt to speech ill keep this in mind.

I have a project with a raspberry pi 2 and small screen that works with the command line very well. I want to stay in there.

The issue with just using other txt options is that bookmarks, dictionaries, and just knowing where I left off would be difficult. Plus I only have a couple of mapped keys.

Yeah it sucks. I know there are alternatives like the orange pi that are cheaper but the software support just isnt as good.

End of an era.