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- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 1 day ago:
So the radio mesh range depends on a couple factors but the short answer is “yes, easily.”
The long answer is that the world record for longest meshtastic/LoRa message is 90km, but you can easily get 1/10th that with some buildings and whatnot blocking the way. Getting really good antennas and sticking a node way up high like in your attic, on your roof, or in a tree and using a personal device closer to the ground that bounces off of it is the most “ideal” scenario for a home setup. I currently talk with people three cities over regularly.
Because there are no cellphone towers, you’re kind of responsible for getting your node high up if nobody else has set up a
ROUTERnode on a nearby mountain (by the way the router role is not the same as your home router, its supposed to be like a cellphone tower but way up on a mountain, not a rooftop of a tall building).And if you’re the first person in your area, Heltec often sells their chipsets in 2 pack bundles with cases and batteries. Give one to a friend and ask them to pay it forward if they like it!
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 days ago:
Weird… You don’t have a .ml domain…
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 2 days ago:
We could just… You know… Stop using smartphones
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 days ago:
Oh meshtastic is really cool but even without GPS broadcasting, it is FAR from private. There are some serious flaws with its encryption apparently that the devs don’t want to address.
That being said, meshtastic is awesome and everyone should try it. Its a lot of fun and you can “meet” cool people in your community who are kind of maketspace-adjacent.
Also don’t listen to the meshcore grifters, meshcore is proprietary and requires you to pay for licenses to use its full feature set. They’re like reverse Linux users who just show up whenever meshtastic is mentioned to try to convince you to give your freedoms away
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 2 days ago:
Those tech giants operate in the EU and have EU customers. 4Chan does neither and stores no user data. At that point the onus is on the user and the UK/EU should be going after their own citizens that use it if they have a problem with it being used. Ideally, they wouldn’t go after anyone but here we are.
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 5 days ago:
I dunno if you know this but SMS support got removed from Signal a few years ago
- Comment on End-to-End Encrypted Chat that YOU Control: Hosting XMPP (Jabber) with Prosody 5 days ago:
Its still better than any new chat protocol thats been made in the last decade. You’ll have to pry my family XMPP server out of my cold dead hands.
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 6 days ago:
Well, death makes exceptions for no one, so
- Comment on 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act 6 days ago:
They’re retiring or dying of old age soon, they think now’s the time to shit all over the floor and trash the place.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 1 week ago:
I use it at work when im having a hard time getting started on a project, because I’ll want to yell at it and tell it how its wrong, and how i can do it better.
- Comment on PinePods Release v0.8.0 - "Mobile apps and massive perfomance bumps" 2 weeks ago:
Great! Now I can listen to my PinePods on my PineBuds which I store in my PinePod that they came with.
- Comment on Apparently the Liberux nexx crowdfunding campaign has closed 2 weeks ago:
Honestly they would have made it a lot farther if they had just shown a fully functional device that could make calls and receive them from deep sleep.
They are fighting an uphill battle against the frustration that was the PinePhone. Nobody wants to buy a flagship-priced brick thats a neat trick for a hobby project.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 weeks ago:
They’re not exempt from marketing. I am. I only use proof-of-use from those around me.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it is. I know a few people like this, and im heading in that direction myself. The only kinds of “ads” that work on me are when a number of equally nerdy people I know find a new thing, and they’ve demonstrated that it has helped them with something or they are genuinely enjoying using it. Like 3D printing. Its semi-pointless most of the time but it is a genuinely fun hobby, which when combined with 3D modeling and post-processing skills becomes an actual craft. I didn’t get into it until a good number of people around me did.
- Comment on Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust” 1 month ago:
Wrong. This is operational security warfare. China, Russia, and every adversary should be holding the same attitude towards us if they’re worth their salt at protecting their internal national assets.
It doesn’t matter that its Chinese people by blood, its Team-U vs Team-C.
Now, the shitbags crying about this probably are doing it from ill-intentioned positions and are most definitely racist, but while their broad intentions are evil, this is one of those cliché “broken clock right twice a day” moments.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 month ago:
They support web browsers
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 2 months ago:
I wish we would all start switching over to JSON for configuration files. It’s so much easier to parse, and you can’t screw it up with too many spaces or not enough.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 months ago:
You are allowed to charge money for open source.
Its the recipe that makes the food you’re eating that would need to be publicly available and free to redistribute.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 months ago:
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 2 months ago:
Why are we not calling the CEOs and other MBA/c-suite goblins directly?
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 2 months ago:
This is some Grade-A whataboutism right here.
Of COURSE the people in that group chat deserve punishment, and probably the same 20 years that French(?) guy got depending on who all did what.
Just because that happened though doesn’t excuse that this happened. The company did a horrendous thing by holding onto highly sensitive and private data it said it should have deleted, AND the userbase was absolutely vile and abusive towards men.
All three things need to see justice brought to them, and you should not excuse one just because another happened and wasn’t dealt with properly.
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 2 months ago:
Both the company, for failing to protect its users; and a large majority of its users, for doxxing and libel.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 2 months ago:
It doesn’t mean you don’t get those things, it just means that you don’t use them via a control panel.
There are a few solutions for shadowplay that are all decent to excellent, rtx HDR I think is automatic in Proton? Not sure what you mean by game filters unless you’re talking about reshade, and I wasn’t aware there was a video upscaler in Firefox.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 2 months ago:
Linux has HDR support now, and there are slightly more configuration options for it than in Windows under KDE Plasma. These are very recent developments.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 2 months ago:
Isn’t this the plot of Pantheon?
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 2 months ago:
We didn’t like it when Mark did it, why would we like it now?
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 2 months ago:
Oh I most certainly cared back then, just felt like nobody wanted to listen to me. Full Linux, grapheneos stack with no google play services, no Microsoft, nearly free of google (replacing gmail is going to be a monumental task, but it’s my last one).
- Comment on Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded 2 months ago:
Listen, I’m extremely anti-trump but the guy has a point. Evil things can be evil regardless of who is in charge, but we only seem to care when the narrative shifts in certain directions. Why didn’t we care about this back then?
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 2 months ago:
The treaties and international laws between these countries absolutely allow the EU to enforce GDPR against companies and individuals outside of the EU if it involves an EU citizen as the victim. I know this because I have to work with it every day and I’m from the US.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 2 months ago:
I don’t agree with the practice but I do see the point - it reduces anxiety and gives your partner a sense that you’re okay for relationships where trust is strong. For toxic relationships this should absolutely not be a thing.
As far as governments or companies selling the data… You can use some self-hosted services on a de-googled GrapheneOS or LineageOS install and use sattelite location only. Then, pipe that to a self hosted solution that doesn’t sell your data like homeassistant or whatever.
