Nice. I did get a few nodes talking with NomadNet but like I said, I needed more out of it before I could see myself using it.

As a simple but functional “hello world” I was trying to make an MQTT relay to receive/push messages and just couldn’t get things going at all. The MQTT part was straightforward but getting those messages to and from the Reticulum network layer was an exercise in frustration. It was more of a side project at the time, so I may double back and put some more effort into it.

Other than being a starter project, my goal was to work toward a higher-level abstraction that I could use TUN/TAP interface to interact with. Basically a low MTU virtual ethernet port. Kind of like the highly experimental VPN function in the Meshtastic python library. Or a virtual serial port between two Reticulum nodes would be nice. Just something so external programs not written specifically for Reticulum can communicate across it.

I really want to like Reticulum, but none of the stock applications fit my needs. I was going to write my own but I just cannot grasp interacting with its network layer. Maybe the docs are lacking, maybe I’m just sane and the project is written by a madman (or vice-versa), maybe it’s a bit of both, but I just cannot wrap my head around it.

+1 for hybrids lol

I used to drive a lot of 4-bangers and remember having to do that with pretty much every one of them either to overtake another vehicle or even sometimes driving up a steep hill lol. The air conditioning just sucked so much power from those little engines.

Been driving a hybrid for 6 or 7 years now, which also has a little 4-cylinder engine, but the electric motor more than makes up for that. It’s got a dash display showing the electric motor/ICE power split, and when you punch the gas, you can see the electric motor doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Love it.

I would love to take a whole month off because yeah, it’s also been years since I’ve taken proper time off. Enjoy it.

Somewhere, in a box, in the bowels of my basement closet with other stuff I still haven’t unpacked after moving in, I have the DVD box set of this show.

I should dig it out and rip it to my media server and watch it.

My app says latest is 2.7.16 for alpha and 2.7.15 for Beta/stable. 😬

I wonder if the app just has hardcoded “latest” values. My app is the latest F-Droid version which was last updated 5 months ago.

Am I crazy? Anyone else feel the same? Did I knock over a hornet’s nest and this post is going to end up deleted?

Not at all. You’re spot on. Granted, I do like Linux and Star Trek so many of my bases are largely covered even though I have countless users and communities blocked.

I enjoy the world building stuff but am just a lurker. Same with a lot of other non-politics/news/rage hobby stuff. I’ve been trying to make an effort to post more lately, and only interesting stuff that’s not just a rage-jerk, but I don’t want to overdo it and spam or post low effort stuff just to be posting.

Unfortunately, your observations aren’t new, and I’ve had the same thoughts for a while. It’s something of a feedback loop because the more people who don’t want to be here for the constant rage end up leaving, and the place just distills further. The only reason I’ve stuck around as long as I have is mostly in hopes of this just being a growing pain. I came here because I wanted to be here not because I got banned from everywhere else (which seems to be a significant portion of the userbase here, sadly).

All I can say is, if you can stand it, keep trying to be the change you want to be.

There is no local or even regional mesh group. I see a lot of nodes when I’m out and about but there’s nothing coordinated. I’ve thought about starting one but don’t have time time to invest right now. From my house, I see the occasional node but none that are always visible.

But yeah, I’d like to get a local mesh group going and publish channel configs for different things, emergency alerts being one they can “subscribe” to or not.

I found I needed to take photos more often than I thought I would, and the camera on this is pretty garbo. Even if the camera were better, it’s incredibly difficult with the e-ink screen so you kind of have to snap one and hope for the best.

My friend group has this group chat, and we share a lot of random pictures and videos. Videos are pretty much unwatchable, so I have to pause them every few seconds to do kind of a slide show to see what it is they sent. Pictures are a little better to make out, but sometimes they’re just inscrutable on the e-ink. Reaction gifs are also kind of painful lol.

Those are the two biggest drawbacks I didn’t anticipate. Otherwise, it’s a great device.

I got that email update a few weeks ago and am so excited to see something real that’s not all marketing. I mean, the marketing got me to pre-order one but I’m over that and ready to see real world progress.

My Minimal Phone is starting to be constraining in ways I hadn’t anticipated and the Clicks is more of where I want to go from that.

I am a hillbilly occasionally cosplaying as a smart and educated person

Same. Which explains why I (twice, lol) incorrectly used the terms “theory” and “hypothesis” interchangeably when those are totally different things in sciences.

I’m not entirely 100% dark matter exists in galaxies the way often described. … The way I see it, it might as well be a repulsive force between galaxies opposed to the current understanding of it being am attractive force. Plus, if it were a phenomenon that pushed things apart, it could also explain Dark Energy.

And to me, that’s a perfectly valid theory. Like other proposed explanations for dark matter or dark energy or “whatever the hell it is we can detect the effect of but can’t identify”, it’s difficult to test.

That’s why I enjoy science. It’s like a big puzzle, and sometimes you get halfway done and realize you put it together wrong and have to start over.

The thing with dark matter is it’s just a placeholder term for “we don’t know what the hell it is”, and aren’t most hypotheses pulled out of the ass before experimentation to prove them?

Plus, Dr. Kaku is a string theorist so wacky is pretty much par for the course in that field. Granted, I consider him more of a TV personality these days and grew up watching him as a speaker on [insert any number of Discovery Channel shows here].

Maybe I’m just biased and enjoy the wacky theories because I’m more interested in seeing them proven right or wrong and thinking about the implications if they happen to prove correct.

GLaDOS/GabeN: They’re sentient, you know. I think that one was about to say “I love you”.

Here’s a write-up I read not too long ago and answers many of your questions, though the author is mostly concerned with getting data access going. Short answer is yes, most will “just work” provided you use the correct modes and configs.

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/using-4g-lte-wireless-modems-on-raspberry-pi/

do linux apps working as contact list/dialer/SMS receiver/sender exist?

Those all fall under what’s called the IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) and is often problematic implementing in open source. If I recall, Ubuntu Touch has a (mostly?) working IMS implementation but I don’t recall if it’s universally functional or limited to specific devices/carriers. Some WWAN cards will allow calls/texts, but those are usually in “3G” mode which is rapidly disappearing as carriers switch to VoLTE or VoNR/Vo5G (which are basically just fancy VoIP).

If you’re willing to forego traditional carrier voice/messaging, you can use any number of messaging apps that work on Linux and/or combine that with a 3rd party VoIP provider for PSTN calling/phone number and SMS/MMS. Just don’t expect to get RCS messaging going; even on Android proper, you’re limited to Google Messages only.

Are you meaning to post only the album art image? If there’s a link to any of these songs, they’re not showing up.

Because I was curious. Did not scale the bottle, only rotate. Seems like it’d fit, and whoever left it there seems to have no qualms about tipping the bottle given how full it is lol

THE TRASH CAN IS RIGHT THERE AND ISN’T EVEN FULL! JUST PUT IT IN THE TRASH CAN

My god, people are animals.

I don’t think I’m up to 200 yet, but my favorite random node name I’ve come across so far was called “The Node Abides”. Always appreciate a little random Lebowski in my life.

I’ve also got a T100e and really like it.

Looks like they extended the reservation window again (or at least the “reserve” link is still up). Don’t know if that’s a good sign or a bad sign, but, hey, if it seems cool it’s not terribly expensive to get a place in line.

I’ve had a Minimal Phone for almost a year and I’ve found the eink display limiting in ways I didn’t expect, and the Clicks is a very similar form factor but with a color screen. I’m excited for it lol.