I only lament the potential loss of future HDR DSNP webrips 😔 but at least we’ll still have HDR from UHD rips

The most notable difference is that meshtastic has range in the order of miles. At least 1 mile even with bad antennas but with other nodes nearby to repeat your messages, 20 miles is not hard to do.

The article seems to have been updated a few hours ago, because I copied and pasted that exact paragraph into my comment after reading the whole article for details on why they might have shot him at his apartment

there was a need to deploy gas into the apartment in order to prompt him to come out

deployed tear gas and pepper spray.

As the man exited the apartment, two officers fired at him and he was killed.

officers found a handgun at the scene

Absolutely insane sequence of events. So they forced a man out of his apartment and then killed him as soon as he left, which was what they intended to happen as part of their plan. The handgun was “at the scene” which makes it sound like he wasn’t even holding it.

I’m on E for the meme

I want a clam chowder pipe straight into the kitchen.

Why not?

Dang, how long have you been using it? I also only use RO water with my GC but I’m hoping the monthly descale gets whatever builds up. I had the boiler flakes and got a replacement unit also because of electrical issues (GFCI tripping randomly) so I think I just have the regular aluminum boiler now.

😔

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The original appears to be by OversizedHat and prints with supports, but it looks like 2 other people split it into parts for gluing together. The text appears to be supported by a white piece behind it.

The encryption keys are generated on the device but can be exported in the app / through the API so you can back it up or migrate nodes. As for spoofing protection, it’s mainly keeping your key secret and the fact that each device Mac address shows up as a specific color. I believe there’s a warning if you see a device Mac with a new key from before (in case someone spoofs your Mac but doesn’t have your key), but if you were to import your key into a new device I don’t think there’s any warning to others besides noticing the different Mac address / color.

And yeah the L1 looks really good - it uses the same nrf chip and lora radio as the rak4631 and uses one of the 2 gps options of the rak4631 (it might be slightly better than the other one which I picked but probably doesn’t matter unless you’re in an area where gps is tough). If I didn’t have the rak and I didn’t want to build (and didn’t like the slightly less polished look of the wismesh builds), the L1 would definitely be a contender.

Ooh let me info dump… I used meshtastic 5-6 years ago but recently got back into it

I just have a preference for using it over Bluetooth because I prefer typing on my phone, so I can mainly give thoughts from that perspective. The lilygo t-deck has a BlackBerry keyboard iirc so if you like BlackBerry style keyboard then that might be a good option for you. If you want a different kind of small keyboard, maybe the t-lora pager is for you.

I had a T-beam early on but the earlier variant has the antenna sticking out the middle sideways, so I was always concerned it would snap off accidentally. Both old and new I believe use 18650, which makes it not very thin, so I lost interest in them.

Lately I went all in on nodes I can use with my phone where I just have to carry it, preferably with 0 screens for extra battery life or buttons, just charge, turn on, and pair and do everything from the app. Nowadays the app is so much better than it used to be, I have a few nits but it doesn’t feel buggy like it used to.

One I use now is a custom rak4631 with the tiniest base board and gps, paired with a medium (non stubby) flexible antenna that I would guess is 5dbi in a 3D printed case - only things on the outside are the reset button, USB c port, and antenna (I skipped the screen and user button). It’s pretty small in the hand, pretty good range I guess? (my longest single hop contacts on longfast are supposedly around 13 miles), but haven’t tested battery life since I’m not on the go much. It should be good though because it’s an nrf, which is superior to the esp based ones in battery life if you compare like with like. I used to have a bit of Bluetooth pairing trouble after the first connection but it’s been behaving lately - forgetting it and repairing it fixes it and no settings are lost, and messages seem to stay so no big deal I guess.

The other I’m using now is the wismesh tag, since it’s also a very simple screenless single button, also nrf based, flat node that you can more easily pocket. No assembly, comes pre-flashed and it’s a very polished plastic slab so great form factor. It also has a beeper that plays an annoying jingle when a message is received, and for some reason just turning off beeper alerts doesn’t work, you have to toggle off the beeper setting. Oh well. As expected, the range is much worse since the antenna is internal, the furthest single hop contacts on longfast appear to be 5.5mi.

There are a bunch more options that I can’t go over in detail but it’s worth checking out heltec (all esp based except the T114) and lilygo (like t-echo), and the seeed L1 is really enticing me, there’s a lot of similarly small options with screens among them, watch out for ones that don’t have gps if you care about showing your exact or approximate location circle to others, and some have WiFi which I don’t care about so mine don’t 🤷‍♂️ also the SX1262 Lora radio is the recommended one, which my choices use. I based my decisions on the devices list: https://meshtastic.org/docs/hardware/devices/

Overall I think I like my rak better, but if I was in a more crowded place and could rely more on nearby nodes, and went outside more, or if I wanted to lend someone one, the wismesh tag could be handy.

Also in case you don’t know, aside from the wismesh tag, I believe all of their other products are basically pre-assembled RAKs in custom enclosures - not a bad thing if a rak would fit your needs but you don’t want to put it together.

I don’t know what their specific reasons are, but looking at the meshtastic docs and comparing longfast to mediumfast, they both use the same bandwidth and amount of redundancy (for interference protection) but mediumfast transmits faster than longfast, reducing its range in exchange for faster transmissions, which also clears up the airwaves as people spend less time transmitting - and also increases the capacity of the airwaves (data rate).

One reason I can think of that you would do this is if it’s a congested area where there is no shortage of nodes to retransmit, so you might not mind shortening your range if it means less congestion and faster transmissions.

That’s just my guess though.

Yes yes tysm!

Can you please outline for me what the policy was before and after the EU intervention? It’s my understanding that it changed nothing about the actual refund process, which has always been flexible, but was purely about the wording during checkout. Correct me if I’m wrong. I can’t remember a time when I couldn’t refund a game that I played less than 2 hours, and I’ve been on steam for 17 years.

Edit: Looking at the EU regulation, it appears they don’t actually require Steam to offer refunds once you download/play the game. So their longstanding global policy is better than what is required by EU law. I believe they EU action just forced them to parrot the stricter EU refund guideline (14 days without downloading) during checkout, meanwhile they still provide their regular relaxed policy of allowing you to download and play for up to 2 hours and still refund it within 14 days.

Yeah it totally has nothing to do with proton, steam input, steamvr, mods, remote play / together, family library sharing, flexible refund policies, or the multitude of other things that other stores don’t do.

They seem to be getting really popular too, a few years ago I might find 1 person on the default channels even in a big city like Boston, but now I’m in the middle of nowhere and there’s like 7-10 other nodes online at any given moment using the default frequency / preset. I’m slightly disappointed that nobody seems to chat in the default channel, I guess most people are using it with private channels or to DM each other which makes sense.

That’s totally valid! I get little tingles so I like it even if it’s not the real thing, but yeah it’s not everyone’s cup of tea

I recently got into vrchat and that honestly seems like a decent way to get virtual cuddles at least. Lots of furry transbians, people who will head pat and face pat you, and groups of people who just cuddle. I got adopted by a group of furries that are pretty cuddly and it’s pretty great tbh.

I’m just talking about chain oil, I don’t have a solution for anything else 🙂

Parafin seems easier to make at home since it’s has been used for candles for a long time (since like the 1800s). Plus you can salvage candles in a pinch, and dipping a chain hardly takes any Parafin from the pot so the same pot will last decades. I’ve been using the same Parafin pot for about 5 years and the level hasn’t noticeably changed.

Not to mention that using a dry lube like parafin greatly extends the chain life because it doesn’t collect dirt and sand that increases chain wear, and you wouldn’t want to have to find a new chain.