Exactly this. If you hear people talking about investments around the Thanksgiving table, its time to bail. All the smart people got in months ago and have left, they are just looking for bag holders now.

I could never get the hang of Thursdays.

Correct, but a few additions.

They already have your credit card on record for repeat purchases (if you pay digitally, they know who you are), thats not the data those apps are after. They are just as bad as tiktoc and reddit when it comes to tracking phone activity and asking for every permission that isnt nailed down. Your phone activity data is worth more to data brokers than a free sandwich every tuesday.

Dito, been hosting a small service for friends and family for a few years as well. We federate with a smaller group of people cosplaying as sysadmins. Set-up was a bit of effort, we opted to not set up the relay server for voice/video, but thats just because we are lazy. As with above, feel free to reach out if yall need assistance.

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How do you do fello space nerd.

The getting people to use it.

Took me months after issueing my friends and family accounts for most of them to get the concept and install something to log into (I still get complaints about Element, and thats one of the nicer ones).

For mobile apps, if its not seamlessly integrated into their existing accounts or they have to remember a new password, you might as well have given them a bag of spiders.

Hike the AT, I would just pack up and go. Try to make it to Maine before it hits us.

They were shouting it at king arthur (the taunters clearly knew who he was, he was introduced as such), I think his parents could afford the costs to get what ever shipments they wanted, be them from France… Or [shudders for comedic effect] Scottland.

You are correct in that people used what they had, and that is entierly the joke. Wine made from elderberries was much more common up north where imports were not something people had… Unless they were of nobility.

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The Monty Python French taunters classic is a scathing insult and noone gets it. Break down the line:

“Your mother was a hampster, and your father smelt of elderberries”

Firstly, they are calling your mother a fast-breeding rodent, ergo, your mother is a whore, that one is simple. Second, why would your father smell of elderberries? What was it used for at the time? Wine, but better wine would be made from grapes from France or southern England, implying your father was was not just a drunk, but a cheap drunk.

Its one of the most insulting lines ever uttered on film and it has so many layers, which is why that movie is hillarious.

• Wants her friend to be happy.

• Is too insane in the membrain to take that step her self.

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Wololo

Roses are blue

Now thems fighting words.

Correct. But I hope that motorola makes a second one. So ill be shouting from the rooftops for people to get their soon to be legally problematic computing equipment sooner rather than later.

Seconding the motorola suggestion, but hold a little longer until the GrapheneOS compatable models drop.

Dont do anything that you would be afraid to explain to the paramedics.

The asthetic is coming back, the protocol is not. Were still going to be using all the modern tools to ensure a secure and encrypted connection, but visiting shit that looks like the OG SpaceJam website.

And I also know that there are many train/aviation/weapons enthusiasts in the gaming world who could do that shit for a living.

How many days has it been since a classified breach happened on the WarThunder forums?

All of them live at peoples houses (so access to a normal power source) and either have some small lithium cell or an 18650. Only expirmenting with small solar panels and you need larger ones to run repeaters or routers as they are more active.

It is and it isnt, you do need to put in effort and manage expectations with meshnets (which makes it a hard sell for normies and people without a direct need). I was at DefCon a few weeks ago with my nerd herd and we functionally only used Meshtastic for our coms for the entire conference. On a few occasions I had to set the hop count to 5-7 but that was to get messages into or out of the main building. Once in the main hall (and using the cons firmware because it needed to default to shorter chirps to not saturate the airwaves) it worked just fine and our fleet of nodes was working perfectly.

Do note that there were ~2500 meshtastic nodes inside a convention hall, and electromagnetically speaking, that was probably the most chaotic place west of the mississippi that week.

As for out in the wild, Ive set up a small fleet of repeaters around town and can send longer range signals a quite a long distance away. Any further communication would require enabling MQTT, setting up servers and building real infrastructure. Thats a whole other can of worms I dont have the time to do yet.