And the exact same model just rebranded!

/woosh

This will work out great! No student will ever sneak phones in class and text without the teacher looking, ever!

I get that, but GMRS allows data messages to be sent. Since Vero has been pushing for this, I can see other companies intigrating a APRS lite for GMRS.

I think mesh (when it works) is great for text messages. I thought it was really cool someone got BBS working. The other issue too is message collision (which APRS also suffers from)

Respecfully, anytime I see something like this or people claim meshtastic/core is the “way of the future” I just cringe.

Yes, mesh has it’s uses, but for the cost you can pick up decent GMRS or MURS gear that will give you 10x the range (yes, I understand GMRS can only have up to 1 second dara burst every 30 seconds, manually operated).

I personally don’t see the hype over mesh that other systems can’t do other than form factor.

Came here to say this.

Work phone for work use (they can load any and everything they want, not my phone)

Personal phone is mine and I control what is installed

Crazy, it’s almost like they treat us like inmates!

I’m shocked it took them this long. Amazon has been doing this for several years now

Hogs is another common critter.

With the right hollow point and good shot placement, I don’t see it having a problem taking down a white tail

5.56 or 223 is a solid coyote or groundhog round and has been popular for 30+ years now. With the properly set up AR15, they can reach out 500m no problem

Either 5.56 or 12GA are great home defense rounds.

Good luck buying a full auto, those cost more than cars and have so much red tape buying.

If you are talking about the off the store shelf civilian semi auto AR15, you can 100% hunt with it. I use mine for coyote hunting or 2/4 legged critter defense. 5.56 or 223 is a really great varmine round. Flat shooting, light recoil, super quiet with a can, cheap rifle and ammo.

Sure, it’s not as much as a challenge,but an AR15 cost the same price as a low end compound bow. Recurves are expensive. You also have to have a place to shoot and practice your bow, have the physical strength to actually shoot it.

Nothing wrong with hunting “modern” weapons. I used to bow hunt, but havent for 10 years due to basicly having to buy a whole new bow since the carbom fibre and string degrading naturally. AR15s are great (and safe) to hunt with and not a new concept.

Here me out, I completely agree and understand. I meant how harmful data centers were due to how much water and environmental damage they cause (I’m pro nuclear anyways).

I’m simply saying I’d have either of those two since they actually contribute something back vs data centers that don’t.

I would gladly take a nuclear power plant or oil field in my backyard than a useless AI center that is worse for the environment than those two.

This is interesting

Mumble

Put Utah websites under a VPN…mic drop

So in the US, mesh is on the ISM 902-928 mhz band and is unlicensed. It has both a power and bandwidth restriction (26mhz) compaired other mode to prevent harmful interference to other users.

We can look at CB Single Sideband (SSB) that you can split the audio into two different “sides” and have operators transmiting on upper and lower without interfering with another.

Tl;dr too nerdy: Techincally yes, you can use voice over mesh and a lot of amateur radio operators transmit voice over 900 into the giga bands sucessfully. All Meshtastic is, is a two way radio.

I believe the reason it’s only text based is due to collision. Irrc last year’s Ham Fest Mesh crashed due to too many users on the “network”. It’s been patched since then and everyone uses (mid short? I cant remember atm) a different mode now.

I guess how would be the source of transmission be? All of those I listed have sort of a mesh/peer to peer community. The difference is inoperability.

With 10m BBS i can get really far due to antenna and how large the radio wave is. On the flipside Meshtastic (which is 915 mhz US band and 400 in Euro I believe) has a tiny antenna, way less range,however you have less interference from other stations or space weather.

With conventional internet (cable, dial up, satilite) we have peer to peer, which is close to mesh networking (freenet, torrants, file sharing sites, Zeronet).

I’m only scratching the surface here.

Do you mean through radio waves like APRS, 10m BBS, or HAMNET? Interent though peer to peer like Freenet (Hyphanet)? Or solely through Mesh like MeshBBS?

I think the issue with running through Mesh is bandwith and range. Look how “limited” APRS or 10m BBS is (I know FCC band requirements and what not)

That and free random stuff.

I just wanted to point out that it’s not dead dead (well a lot of traffic died after they took personals off lol )