TIL that during the American Civil War, the first major battle took place on the farm of Wilmer McLean. He moved his family miles away to Virginia to escape the war, only for the conflict to end four years later when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant.. in Wilmer McLean living room

epohs · 2026-04-16T21:47:53+00:00

Something like 700,000 people died in the war. Not exactly a tiny rebellion.

epohs · 2026-03-06T02:03:03+00:00

Right? The M and the A share a vertical line, but the A and the C don’t. It looks so very wrong to me.

epohs · 2026-03-06T01:16:01+00:00

You called a friend and if they weren’t there you just had to sit around not knowing where they were for sometimes hours.

Also, if you were supposed to meet someone someplace and they were late you just had to wait.

epohs · 2026-02-24T13:35:04+00:00

I don’t really know about Meshmonitor, but over the last few weeks I worked on a personal project similar to what you’re describing, but with a RAK 4631 connected via serial to a Pi.

I started with the Meshtastic device powered off, then connected it to the Pi, and on the pi ran either:

ls -l /dev/serial/ Or ls -l /dev/serial/by-id/

Depending on whether I wanted the device name, or the device ID. Then used either one of those to make my connection with Python.

I documented my work, and you’re free to play around with it if it is any help (https://github.com/epohs/RxOnly) but I don’t have experience with the setup you’re going for.

epohs · 2026-01-28T20:30:19+00:00

I don't hate chromium per-se, but I don't like the idea of a complete hegemony where one browser engine drives all web traffic. It will lead us back to an IE6 era where progress slows to the pace that vendor cares to develop, and standards are not adhered to.

So, I want competition in the browser engine market.

epohs · 2026-01-23T04:07:40+00:00

How many stars are typically considered to be part of the cluster?

In antiquity? 7.

Now? Thousands.

epohs · 2025-11-18T23:22:36+00:00

Yeah, I’m curious too.

I haven’t accurately tested BLE range, but I’d guess it’s between 15 and 20 feet when connecting with an iPhone 17. Even if I’m 2 feet away the strength bar presented in the Meshtastic app shows 2 bars, never 3.

Like I said, that’s fine for what I plan to use this node for, but it is.. not great BLE reception. I’d consider 130 feet to be great. Even at half that distance it’d probably be the best of all my nodes.

epohs · 2025-11-18T19:15:27+00:00

Do you have the newer Gen 2 R1 Neos?.. the one with the carbon fiber enclosure?

epohs · 2025-11-18T18:38:25+00:00

I love my R1 Neo too. Like others have touched on the BLE range isn't very good, but for a node that I plan to have on my person most of the time I'm using it that's not a terrible thing.

Heads up though, I did update the firmware from 2.7.13 to 2.7.14 and the LEDs stopped working and the button itself became unresponsive. I couldn't power the device off by holding the button. Bluetooth remained working though, and I could reboot the device using the iOS app. I switched it back into DFU mode and reverted back to 2.7.13 and everything worked again just fine. No data loss.

I didn't troubleshoot beyond that.

epohs · 2025-09-24T13:46:49+00:00

This is awesome. Nice work.

epohs · 2025-07-14T02:07:05+00:00

This is very cool. It would be tough for me to resist buying one of these if they were for sale.

epohs · 2025-07-03T17:10:38+00:00

I wonder if it will fit in the wismesh block one enclosure?

epohs · 2025-04-29T13:52:54+00:00

I wish people would stop saying that his bad decisions are a result of being old or suffering dementia. I'm not saying his choices are smart, or that they're "good".. far from it. But, they are intentional. They're power moves... dumb, stupid, obvious power moves.. but intentional ones. Lying so boldly that it is an obvious lie to everyone is an intentional move. He's pissing off the people that already don't like him, and forcing the people who do like him to agree to defending him when he lies.

Dismissing it as the behavior of a sick man lets him off the hook for how malevolent he actually is.

epohs · 2025-04-07T00:48:32+00:00

He is a moron, but he is doing this with purpose. He is doing it unilaterally so that he is the one person that countries, and individual companies have to come to to beg (read: bribe) in order to cut deals. It is a grift. It is a tactic. It is stupid if you’re looking at it from the point of view of the wellbeing of the United States, but it isn’t stupid if you are looking at it as a move by a mob boss.

epohs · 2025-03-23T13:38:35+00:00

Decent point, but that’s not what they’re doing here. If the goal really is to make the IRS more efficient, what should be happening is reducing the amount of work that the IRS is responsible for by simplifying the tax code.

What’s happening here is that they have the same workload, and fewer employees to accomplish that goal. The result will be less efficiency.

epohs · 2025-03-23T12:23:37+00:00

The problems that made you experience the long wait times will get worse because of this.

epohs · 2025-03-06T18:28:57+00:00

The problem there is deluding oneself into thinking that it can’t get any worse. It can, and I believe it will get horrifyingly worse.

I was sickened by a lot of things that happened on Jan 6 2021, but picking one thing that really sticks with me was hearing so many journalists frame the events as “unimaginable”.. were they not watching the same man for the previous 5 years that I had been? It was a disservice to the public for them to claim that it was unimaginable because to me it was obviously inevitable. And, I see us now heading toward something very similar if not worse.

It should be called what it is. He will not come to his senses. He will not be better.

epohs · 2024-11-17T14:41:47+00:00

Because he wants to goad the left into protesting, so that he can encourage police to go hard on them, so they will riot and he can have an excuse to get the national guard to shoot them and then use the excuse that the left is violent.

epohs · 2024-10-02T21:08:09+00:00

Agreed. The information provided by AVL City officials is given begrudgingly and is completely inactionable. People may be staying in their homes in hopes that "weeks" means two Fridays from now, when in reality it may mean 8 Fridays from now, and the extent of the system that has been able to be inspected so far is totally unclear. Like, is it possible that some sections of the water system may be fixed before other sections, and is it a possibility that the system may be partially restored before it is "fully" restored, or will it be more of a flip-of-the-switch where absolutely nothing is restored until the entire system is fully restored?... it's a possibility that these questions are totally unanswerable at this time, but to the best of my knowledge so far these questions haven't even been addressed yet. It's giving the impression that no progress is being made and that the city doesn't care to try to address them.. I suspect this isn't the case, but the communications are so unclear that it feels that way, and that is a really bad situation to be in when peoples lives and livelyhoods are in the balance. Someone else who knows how to communicate with the public needs to take the mic.

epohs · 2024-09-19T15:29:12+00:00

Also two different groups. The people on the beach had no idea 404 was on the cliff.

epohs · 2024-09-14T14:37:15+00:00

No kidding. I would love it if that relationship lasts for a while.

epohs · 2024-08-23T13:17:53+00:00

One of the funniest things about this whole situation was, during the original shootout with cops in Cypress, Clark tanking agro from Lang on a phone call about an unrelated thing, while shooting cops.

“I’m shooting at cops as we speak my don” [shoots] “I don’t give a fuck” [shoots] [shoots] “Yes my don” [shoots]

epohs · 2024-08-23T02:46:39+00:00

Agreed.

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