Power efficiency is extremely important for an off-grid network, because it translates more or less directly into battery and especially solar panel area requirements. You need the final node design to be hoistable up the tree.

Meshtastic’s not really a company exactly. MeshCore exists if you don’t like it.

Semtech does IIRC have patents on and make all the LoRA chips. But the patents will expire eventually, and the LoRA chips they make are well-behaved modules that do what you tell them and not locked-down bits of nonsense that are a pain to work with. The data sheets for the modules are easy to find, and you’re not stuck messing around with firmware blobs you need to load into things. You can get boards with the Semtech radios on them from a whole bunch of manufacturers. You’d be hard-pressed to find a competing radio tech with modems available at a similar price point that we “should” be using instead.

And while the ability to use any link for e.g. Reticulum is nice, it also means that without coordination you have no idea what link you should use, and so you can never see anyone because you have no idea what technology or even what LoRA channel to look for peers on.

And Meshtastic now can go over UDP anyway.

No?

I mean, how else are you meant to play the game actually?

I guess you could be like opening ports just to particular IPs. And you need a game that isn’t Swiss cheese that gets immediately hacked.

But like hackers don’t sort of seep in through port forwards; they need to physically identify and exploit a particular vulnerability.

What it is is my attempt to avoid the nonsense biannual massive Ubuntu upgrades.

Really I’ve got “Siduction”, an ostensible distro “based on” Debian Unstable. This is accomplished by just having the Debian Unstable package sources in there, plus a couple others that give you pretty themes.

I expect Debian Unstable to occasionally ship me broken packages, but I’m surprised to have it just generally not have functional migration solutions when the setup goes through major changes. Not because there’s a bug in something, as far as I can tell, but because nobody engineered anything.

dist-upgrade must die.

I spent like three hours I didn’t have the other day trying to bring a Debian Unstable system up to date, it decided to stop every few packages to tell me it failed because the t64 libraries conflict with the regular ones and nobody taught apt how to figure that shit out for me and install the right ones.

Even Ubuntu is like “oh hey there’s a new release, you’re available for three hours straight to, every two to fifty minutes, explain to a TUI dialog that you don’t have an opinion, right? Oh also can you resolve this merge conflict on this config file we think you edited, but you didn’t, by being shown the diff once and then opening nano?”

This is not an acceptable way for this to go.

I saw NTSYNC and was obligated to reply with the complementary 90s boy band.

How the Backstreet Boys Taught me to Code

I’ll chime in that posting to a community with about 12 subscribers is not very fun. But then that’s why we have vigorous cross-posting.

Why do you think people got so into T posing?

Still waiting on the improvements to BACKSTREET_BOYS to get merged.

Often to a fault. Sometimes building the packages that make up the distro requires software that is only available and packaged for that distro.

If you grew up to be a man, it might make sense to describe your younger self as a boy. My understanding of gender is that often the one you end up with as an adult is the one you really have had the whole time, or at least since you started having one at all.

But my other understanding of gender is that being in gender trouble is a fake idea, so you can and should describe your younger self as whatever feels right to you, no matter what you think of yourself as now.

Sounds more like the pirate queen.

I’ve had pretty good results with Wings3D actually, as opposed to Blender. For proper CAD you can try Solvespace, which also sucks but at least has so little to it that you can learn to use it if you remember the idea of solving systems of equations at all.

I don’t think ActivityPub is set up for one server storing and forwarding a whole feed of everything, like Usenet. Right?

But you can, in fact, be too careful. Availability is one arm of the security triad.

If whatever complex configuration you have set up to avoid exposing something to the Internet is incompatible with something and what you wanted to do can’t be done, or if you look and see that setting all that up would be too hard and don’t bother to expose the service at all, then your security posture is incorrect because your service is just as unavailable as if someone else broke it.

That certainly sounds like a thing you would want, nay need, to fix.

It could probably change the language selector.

If I’m an elite hacker spy who works for the hacker spy division of the Chinese army, am I going to change the system language of the thing I am hacking to Chinese and forget to change it back?

Mostly so they could say they did.

You don’t do the development on the board.