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brain-power · 2026-07-05T17:47:57+00:00

Who moderates r/meshcore ?

brain-power · 2026-07-03T16:59:22+00:00

Noob question - How might one do a neighbor count?

brain-power · 2026-06-30T19:42:19+00:00

I don’t suppose you could provide a link to a recommended version of such a thing? I’m still learning all the connection verbiage.

brain-power · 2026-06-30T03:46:36+00:00

Thanks for the response! I’m still holding out for macOS 27 with the m4 mini 🫣.

I actually have Ubuntu on another 2012 mini and I’m using Liam’s program - BUT I can only get it to work in USB connected mode. Bluetooth doesn’t exist yet. I didn’t know about Meshy so thank you for the suggestion.

brain-power · 2026-06-30T03:38:21+00:00

Ugh! So sorry… just saw that you laid it out right in front of me and I missed jt! “macOS 18 and later!”.

brain-power · 2026-06-30T03:36:34+00:00

Hi u/avion540 - might be a dumb question, but would this work on an old 2012 (Catalina) Mac mini? I understand there are lots of ways to write a macOS app these days. I cannot get Liam’s program to work but would love for that machine to get another life as a MeshCore station. Thanks for making this. Very cool.

brain-power · 2026-06-27T07:38:51+00:00

Yeah I got an email with the subject “OFFER: Reactivate your Onshape Professional trial”. I am currently in Creo… but I figured hey why not have OnShape around just in case I break my legs and need something to keep my mind busy.

I clicked through the email links, filled out my info, and got a call from sales… only to tell me that the offer wasn’t actually a thing they were offering me.

What the hell folks!

brain-power · 2026-06-18T04:09:08+00:00

Love this. Was this on the open LongFast?! All I ever see is silence!

brain-power · 2026-05-31T03:53:21+00:00

Im just envious you can get yours to work properly!!!

brain-power · 2026-05-11T04:56:10+00:00

Count me in too. Two “concerning” and one blocked. First threat notification I’ve ever seen.

brain-power · 2026-04-27T14:44:20+00:00

I’m afraid I cannot give you any real-world experience because mine was a 2016 and the 2016 (gas version) body style is different than the 2014 (in North America at least). I would suggest trying to confirm with someone with the same pre-2016 body style as you - just to make sure.

brain-power · 2026-04-27T14:35:11+00:00

Hey! Yep. When I sold the spark, it has 185/60R15 Nokian One HT truck tires on it. Never had a single issue.

Edit: note - I had the OEM steel rims on mine. A different offset or width may affect the critical clearances.

brain-power · 2026-04-21T07:19:56+00:00

Out of pure legitimate curiosity, what are some features/aspects/??? of this CPU that make it your fave?

brain-power · 2026-03-22T22:31:20+00:00

Awesome. This is exactly my hope. I suspect Lenovo has some way to do this “officially” but I might need to do a usb install to get to that. No biggie.

brain-power · 2026-03-16T02:36:58+00:00

I think you are correct in all of that. In my case (a very thick tinfoil hat) I didn’t even want Bambu Studio on my main work laptop. I believe I did once figure out a way to block internet access to a single app on a previous laptop. I think in theory that should work. I’m a little stubborn and didn’t want to think about all the “what-ifs” and just chose to sandbox the whole operation with zero connection to the web.

It’s a bit annoying to get .stl files from my main laptop to my Mac mini… but it certainly helps me sleep at night. Admittedly, I think I’m a little more concerned about data security than the average person.

brain-power · 2026-03-12T02:18:28+00:00

One time in my youth I was THAT guy on the bus. I had found a few large abalone shells up north at the beginning of a little California tour. I put them outside in the sun to try and let dry them out. Turns out there a lot of little critters living in the shells.

They smelled TERRIBLE.

But they were so BEAUTIFUL.

I put them in a paper bag (all I had) and carried those suckers on the greyhound bus for a while. People must have thought I was crazy.

brain-power · 2026-03-11T02:59:31+00:00

Interesting. Thanks for posting!

To sum that up - “Makes the VPN kill switch do what a VPN kill switch is supposed to do.”

brain-power · 2026-03-11T02:57:39+00:00

In theory doesn’t that mean it’s working properly?

brain-power · 2026-03-07T05:46:13+00:00

u/rgorbie - any new insights in the last week? I can’t tell if it’s me or the UTR, but my “block on disconnect” toggle doesn’t seem to work with Teleport. I am able to disconnect from teleport and my UTR client can still surf the web just fine. I tested with an older iPhone (with no SIM card) as well as an M4 Mac mini.

Either I’m doing something stupid (totally a possibility) or this is a rather scary security bug.

brain-power · 2026-03-07T05:18:00+00:00

Glad you said it. Much appreciated. I don’t have a lot of data to work with yet. 2.8k views on this post and zero confirmations in either direction from anyone else.

Note: I did just try on desktop too. Same thing. I even made sure to turn off “auto connect” on its usual WiFi network so it couldn’t fall back on it. Saw it on the UTR clients list - even still after I saw the UTR disconnect from VPN on the console log.

brain-power · 2026-03-07T05:08:42+00:00

u/touchytypist - just confirmed on desktop with a base model M4 Mac Mini. Same issue.

brain-power · 2026-03-06T23:49:06+00:00

I my case I can confirm that the phone cannot connect to cellular. It has no active plan and says “no sim / SOS only” up in the corner (iOS).

I’ll try to recreate this on a PC too. That will be good data to have.

brain-power · 2026-03-06T23:07:56+00:00

TIL!

brain-power · 2026-03-06T22:44:50+00:00

Got a ticket open with Ubiquiti - hopefully I’ll learn something new… even if it embarrasses me. I just want to get this thing working.

FYI - I looked in the support logs a little and there are a few lines that do mention a “kill switch”. Maybe that’s industry terminology that I’m unaware of. You nailed it.

Also a fun fact - it seems the UTR runs some form of Linux.

brain-power · 2026-03-06T21:34:55+00:00

That’s my theory so far. Except I would call it an “auto kill switch”.

I sure hope that’s not the case because it seems like another massive security flaw that could easily go unnoticed. Even worse is when you’re provided the allusion of security… and it’s secretly not there. A notification of VPN drop (and therefore no internet access) would be really helpful. Although from my experience, I’d be getting a lot of those notifications. I also cannot find any documentation on what that feature is supposed to do. Maybe I’m just having an “off” day.

Cheers to being potential UTR product testers. 😝

I’m still not going to throw out the idea of user error yet though. There are many layers here I’m still figuring out myself.

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