Eldritch

No worries. And I remembered the youtubers name. Data Slayer. He’s got a few halow videos. 1Km and several Mbps is just about the baseline to be interesting. Lorawan range is great. But the data rate really is far too low for anything outside iot or im.

Some of the heletech modules look very promising and not unaffordable.

I’ve seen one. Not a great sample size. A YouTuber who also does a lot of mesh-tastic videos. Demonstrated live streaming from an ESP32 camera module in a large public park. High resolution low frame rate. As well as in a bridge configuration streaming YouTube from their apartment close to practical range limits. Roughly line of sight, minimal obstruction, of course.

Guaranteed success? No. But definitely something worth looking into investigating and replicating. Devices like these are much more accessible to your average person than ham certification and equipment.

He named himself secretary of war-crimes

Wi-Fi HaLow data rates range from 150Kbps to over 15Mbps, over 600 times faster than LoRaWAN while still achieving good range.

It will of course varry by environment, topology, and configuration. As everything does. But even a megabit, 125KB/s leveraging modern technologies. Would be very usable. Capable of pushing DVD level streams of AV1 and opus though at saturation. More than easily able to push basic websites. High traffic probably not. But I wouldn’t expect neighborhood/village traffic to be too heavy.

You mention meshtaatic. There is also halow on the consumer side now. One of my goals for the next year is to set up a few open halow nodes in a mesh. As a local anarchist community network of sorts. With little or no intention of bridging it to the internet. Outside of connecting to other similar remote network segments or maybe an email/xmpp bridge. Mostly a separate local network with separate local resources.

I live near some of these areas. The seat of the county I am in is largely one of those areas. My uncle lived directly in it. Both were massive issues. And a significant portion of county resources go to trying to maintain it. Conversely our area being much more urban and closer ties to the nearby city gets very little in the way of county funds or assistance. If it wasn’t for the end of the county near the city, the county overall would much more resemble something like West Virginia. You go much farther north, the roads all became two lanesat most. And you have to dodge horse apples and the carts of menonites. Which isn’t a dig at the menonites. They’re actually self-sufficient and don’t get much help from the county either.

As someone whose family was impacted by those bullshit politics,

I don’t think it wasn’t Bean specifically. It does sound vaguely familiar. Perhaps one of Rowan’s stand-up specials? Bean is definitely his most recognized role outside the UK but he’s had a long and varried career.

Though we could both be misremembering the chancellor of the ministry of silly walks. John Cleese as Basil Fawlty series 1 episode 6 The Germans.

Exurbia, I didn’t repeat the term and that tripped you up. Suburbia, exurbia/rural areas especially. Where you have to run miles of wire or pipe to service three or four people. Completely unsustainable.

On the one hand I hate to see Rowan used like this. On the other hand you’re not wrong.

I don’t disagree. It’s just that suburbia can’t continue to exist. If you can dig your own well and are going to provide your own power, et cetera, more power to you. Bua lot of places like that. Where there’s little opportunity, and far too much resources invested in minimally used infrastructure. Are unsustainable as they currently exist.

Disagree. A better neighborhood would have much denser, often multi family housing. But provide actual proper workshop spaces for that sort of thing so not to disturb the neighborhood. Suburbia and exurbia are two of the most corrosive societal forces.

Not just the administration. Tate is the old timey type of misogynist conservatives long for a return to.

True, but Elon buying Twitter didn’t make him think he should run again. Or drag his feet so long on dropping out that the best they could do was throw a wet noodle like kamala in. Who would fold under her own weight. Even before any external pressure ever got to her. Or all his missteps with Gaza and Israel.

He never had a Congress to support him on anything. So he was always limited on what he could get done, but those things he failed hard on.

Yes, I absolutely don’t blame Biden for rationally protecting his own. Just for doing such a shit job that he helped enable Twittler’s second rise to power and failed the rest of us.

Yep. The fact that he, the man currently most directly connected to Epstein. Is saber rattling to try and weaponize Epstein against his enemies only is evidence enough of that.

Always has been

On the one hand yes. But on the other that just puts them front and center to be targeted next. It’s 100% the right thing to do in the situation. But it’s still a no win situation.

The government has fought us every inch of the way when it comes to our sovereignty. Even though most of our tribal leadership has generally pushed for stupid shit like casinos. They’ve always been embarrassed into allowing it. This administration feels no shame or restraint.

ML have it out for Mamdani. He correctly identified and called out dictatorships. And has been behaving far too rationally. Choosing to act like he represents even the people who didn’t vote for him. Instead of preparing to use his newly elected position to attack those that disagree with him.

It’s like she’s not even trying.