If I recall correctly, you can, but it removes your node from the public networks everyone else is using because hams cannot use encryption for coms as part of the rules for ham operation, as the non ham network is encrypted by default. You would have to build a secondary network independent of the public node list.
Correct me if I’m wrong. But that was my understanding of the difference.
Oh it’s a hundred percent just the novelty communication technology that is in vogue right now. I don’t really know if it’s a true zeitgeist technology or if someone with a lot of product to sell who is playing with the social media algorithm. But I guess I don’t really care much.
The trick is to find a way to seize on that opportunity. Now that our mesh network is structurally sound and sufficient, I’m working on using a raspberry pi to automate our ham club meeting dates, testing dates, and field days, and then blast those messages once a week or so over the mesh network. That way, an impulse buy turns into the discovery of a fuctional network and afterwards, a random person can discover a whole local community of people with all sorts of new things to learn.
You can lead a horse to water. But you can’t make him drink.
first you need a trough. That’s the mesh network. After, the horse needs to be thirsty. That’s the curiosity people have. information, the when and how and where, you can automate and passively tell them about. that’s the water.
I’ve come to the realization that mesh nodes are little more than a gateway drug into the world of ham radio. And for that I’m grateful.
It’s not as good, and does everything worse than radio. The only real world use I have found is for when cellphone networks get overwhelmed at things like music festivals and large sports games. No one else’s texts go through, but I can toss by buds a node to put in their back pocket and we can stay in touch.
our local mature club is building our local mesh network out now as an introduction to the ham world. And it’s working. It’s getting the younger kids and adults through the door. And from there, it’s an easy thing to get them interested in more useful and fun forms of communication.
My room temperature has central air conditioning and I like it cooold.
No one was wondering. In the USA we have intelligence quotients that are high enough to convert, even at room temp. Its surprising I know, but room temperature I.Q.'s don’t operate on metric here. It takes a little more effort you see… Very smart.
No issues here yet. Proton vpn with brave. Both have been good about finding the work around and updating so far for me. Hit a wall, but by the next day they fix it. It’s a continuous battle to be sure, but no long term issues for me so far.
Meesa no starta da fire
There may be a little bit of a scale difference between the two, as abhorable as both situations are.
Bugs bunny is so fuckin screwed
Allegedly
Hollow point rifle rounds are absolutely a thing. I know this because I have a box of them at home. 30.06 hollow point is a common offering you can get basically anywhere.
I mean it’s an absolutely ridiculous thing to say. He should get flack for how patentedly stupid that comment was. But probably not fired.
We have officially hit the point where radio waves are the devil. As a lora nerd and a ham operator, it’s funny that the public is starting to catch on to all this.
It’s like the microchips in the COVID vaccine thing. Why would bill gates and the ghost of Steve jobs try to sneak all this into your life when they already got paid 800 bucks for you to own a smartphone?!? You already did it!
This is just a part of normal infrastructure now and your Amazon echo is way more useful to them than whatever conspiracy theory is getting cooked up about this shit.
Hell most of it is horribly implemented and borderline useless even if you had the explicit intent to be evil with it. Ffs
After I set up my server and paid for the hardware, after my vpn, and after I paid for my Usenet subscription, and yeah, after I paid for lifetime Plex. I’m money ahead. Easily.
I have no Netflix, Hulu, apple, Amazon. All of it. ,that’s a monthly sub for each. That’s satellite tv money each month!
It’s not a rug pull. I got my money’s worth. And I’m late to the game. God forbid you are an early bird and have been living the high life for years and years! It’s not a rug pull at all.
If the whole thing folded tomorrow, I’m still money ahead and a few steps away from adopting jellyfin. How the fuck is that a rug pull? It did what I wanted and has done it well. And when or if it fails, I move on. That’s more resiliency than 99 percent of the other services I have used. And a better service and platform to boot!
Rug pull? seriously?
If they can’t charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won’t implement it. It goes against their business model.
But we can dream.