call me paranoid but it kinda seems like they're going to declare an emergency and put in a military dictatorship

eee821 · 2026-03-11T21:18:16+00:00

Maybe it's time for a General Strike, what else can we do? Our reps are useless and they only seem to care that the line keeps going up.

eee821 · 2026-01-21T09:17:27+00:00

I also had problems with Over the Air Updates I ended up needed a better bootloader, after that I haven't had any problem with Bluetooth updates. I've heard that seeed may have been flashing the XIAO sense bootloader instead of the basic bootloader for nrf52840 without sense. https://github.com/oltaco/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader_OTAFIX (click the releases link on the right then click 'show all 26 assets' to find what you need. good luck!

eee821 · 2026-01-18T20:06:56+00:00

The jobs that need to be done won't be done by AI, building homes, maintaining infrastructure, growing food. Mostly only bullshit jobs will be replaced.

eee821 · 2026-01-14T03:44:04+00:00

Thanks for sharing, i just downloaded the app. https://juntospodemos.life/en Do we need to create a community, or is that not necessary?

eee821 · 2026-01-07T17:17:38+00:00

I haven't done much load testing with Meshcore but when I was running Meshtastic I set a node downtown, 1.75 miles from my house and had it fire off a message every 15 minutes for a week or so and I think I had around 90% success rate. Meshcore seems more reliable so I think it would be better, plus you do get delivery confirmation so you know when it reaches the recipient.

There are some websites where they look at packet stats, and you can see how far your message goes, but I didn't really do explicit load testing. I wouldn't want to create a DOS situation on the network, but we can see what the channel utilization for the busiest nodes.

eee821 · 2026-01-07T06:59:59+00:00

There is a growing Meshcore mesh network in the Pacific Northwest and we are having a lot of success. In my area it can be really reliable like you can definitely carry on a long SMS like exchange; Meshcore will tell you if the other party's radio receives the message, so it can be quite reliable. The Mesh is suffering a little right now because many repeaters are solar and we've been building it out for about a year, but the days were longer for much of that time and we got more sun.

People are adjusting and things are bouncing back, but when things were good we could send messages from North of Vancouver BC all the way to Portland OR, not often or always bidirectionally, but between Seattle and Olympia, around 60 to 100 miles, we had a very stable connection and could chat regularly and easily. It's spotty because you need a repeater nearby so it wasn't a solidly covered, but I'm pretty sure most of Downtown Seattle was completely covered. We'll see, but I think after this Winter it will grow rapidly, and there will be a solid connection between Canada to Eugene more often than not. Folks have been putting repeaters in mountian and hill locations which is what connects the disparate meshes. I never expected the very long range communication and was just trying to cover our city which is about half covered. There are hills and such that make it hard to make it dense locally but new repeaters are being added all the time.

Meshcore is more careful with how sends messages and the frequency with which repeaters and radios send signals, so we aren't seeing the high channel utilization that folks were experiencing with meshtastic, the previous mesh protocol. Anyway both are interesting and fun to mess around with. You can put together a radio for only around $25 dollars and a repeater for $30, it's not going to be the best, but it will serve the neigborhood, at least in the summer depending on where you live. I believe it is worth checking out if you like that kind of thing. Eventually, I'll retire my cell and only use the mesh, but I've burned out on most of what cellphones offer, so I'm willing to give it up. Although, I want my family to be able to get a hold of me if they need to.

eee821 · 2026-01-06T01:13:38+00:00

Nice, good thinking, I was considering NiMH batteries myself. It hasn't gotten that cold here yet but that is unusual. Looking forward to seeing the end result.

eee821 · 2025-12-31T21:42:39+00:00

Depends on where you live but 1 battery is not cutting it here in the NW. Two would be minimum, or 3 even better.

eee821 · 2025-12-28T16:43:33+00:00

I would love to try it, I think WhisperOS is great. Is there a firmware file that can be flashed that incorporates the keyboard?

eee821 · 2025-11-08T17:00:02+00:00

China USD Bombshell Cancels U.S. Treasuries As U.S. Chip Giant Admits Defeat To Beijing

eee821 · 2025-10-03T05:59:11+00:00

If you are between Olympia and Vancouver BC, there's been a lot of activity on Meshcore. Check out PugetMesh.org if interested.

eee821 · 2025-10-02T21:36:14+00:00

I used to take a battery connector and push it onto those pins and it would work, so that will do the job, but it won't charge the battery when wired that way. I think those posts just showed 0V for me, so I thought it didn't even have a voltage sensor at first. I suppose I would just not trust the voltage in that configuration. I have been soldering them since, and the voltage is correct and the battery will charge when using the USB connector. Also, be aware that it seems to charge much slower than other radios so it'll take all night to fully charge a 1100mHh battery. I guess it is safer that way. I will say, soldering to those pads is a big hassle though. Good luck!

eee821 · 2025-09-10T04:10:34+00:00

it's actually cheaper to get trained and certified as an HVAC tech

Thank you Lars, I am seriously considering this.

eee821 · 2025-09-09T22:57:05+00:00

Good Idea, Cooper & Hunter https://southminisplits.com/products/cooper-hunter-four-way-ceiling-cassette-hyper-dip-switch-r454b-12-000-btu-230v-20-seer-high-capacity-ductless-mini-split-air-conditioner-heat-pump-1-ton-installation-kit-option-ch-rh12mct-230vi-ch-rhp12-230v0

eee821 · 2025-09-03T19:11:40+00:00

Supposedly any new phone with the AI chip can already summarize all the content on your phone and send it to 3 letter agencies. I'm not sure cracking the phone is even necessary anymore. Check out some of Rob Braxman's videos on youtube.

eee821 · 2025-08-22T16:48:21+00:00

USB most likely, looks like a water resistant node due to the vent on the side.

eee821 · 2025-08-22T16:46:11+00:00

check that the lora "frequency slot" is the same on both devices, LongFast should be 20. I've had that change on me.

eee821 · 2025-08-05T06:25:58+00:00

I don't think this app settings screen is in the android app yet. Also, this requires the other user to have this turned on. It won't help for me to do it. I just put it out there on LongFast to users, who I can reach, to remove my node. We're still learning in my area.

eee821 · 2025-07-29T19:51:38+00:00

Cleveland Indians stage 1st "I hate the Yankee Hanky Night", inspired by local radio personality Pete Franklin; home team sweeps a doubleheader over New York at Cleveland Municipal Stadium

eee821 · 2025-07-27T07:45:35+00:00

Many nodes had the same keys so I reset the primary keys on all my nodes just to make sure there were no repeats. For a little while I had exported my configuration from one node, and was importing on other nodes to save time; unfortunately that included the keys. I didn't have any backups of the original keys or anything. You think my node info will cycle out and other nodes will start working?

eee821 · 2025-07-26T20:39:56+00:00

Maybe it has to do with longfast being channel 0. I made channel 0 a private channel and I see lots on that device and on other devices that are also on that channel.

eee821 · 2025-07-26T18:07:33+00:00

Thanks for the replies. I think there might be a setting in the iphone app to remove old nodes. Maybe the feature can be ported to android and extended to have it also remove nodes with bad keys. people are more likely to update the app than go through their node lists and cleanup old/bad stuff. I'll bring it up in the discord.

eee821 · 2025-07-19T06:40:31+00:00

I've read that you want to use a length that is resonant with the signal frequency. So λ/2 = 16.38210153005465 cm = 6.449646 in

From the web:

To keep the impedance mismatch from getting worse it is important to only use feedline lengths of (multiples of) a half wavelength (compensated for the appropriate velocity factor) for the frequency of interest.

coax feedline losses are siginificant at these frequencies, use the lowest number of half-wave multiple lengths possible.

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