Thanks! To be fair I glossed over a LOT

Metal Gear Solid 2 plays out like this. Spoilers below but it came out in 2001 so whatever

The bad guy is a former President that knew his job was just as a figurehead, nothing more. He found out the hard way that even his orders came from a cutout.

He recruited “terrorists” to take the sitting President “hostage” so they could “force him” to detonate an EMP over the east coast. The plan is to dismantle the shadow government (actually AI) running the government/censoring public opinion and hopefully free the country

You play as the wide eyed idealistic special forces infiltrator, trained heavily through VR and sent to “rescue” the sitting President from the “terrorist leader” and learn that everything you know is wrong and you were given orders by the AI all along

After a few failed tries I started doing a serious play to win run of XCom UFO Defense with OpenXCom. The game can seem daunting but it’s honestly pretty fun!

Then I looked into other open source games and got distracted big time by starting Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 for my first time EVER with OpenRCT2! I now fully understand the hype and it’s crazy that I haven’t played it sooner

I mean, yeah

I like them

It’s not surrounded by a ton of corporate bs. I know the us govt has their own openstreetmap setups (like this basic unclassified one) and wiki sites (intellipedia) because it’s a proven framework to set up and add your own information.

gps too

2D Splinter Cell when stealthy, 2D John Wick when spotted

They did a great job with the gun characteristics too!

Only if they hit his dog first

It’s a really good game with solid world building and themes

And you get the characters’ mental commentary that a show usually has trouble getting across

Please correct me if I’m wrong, this is my understanding

1 It’s a lot better than nothing! Meshtastic firmware sets every node to the LongFast, public encryption channel by default. If it gets fuly factory reset that should still be default. If you want an additional channel with different settings the QR scan feature lets everyone sync settings easily.

You might even be able to manually type in the encryption key but I haven’t tried that to see.

2 You can DM nodes in range over the default LongFast channel. You can also set up a separate channel for a group. For example I have one with all my nodes that serves as a family/friends group and also allows for range testing without spamming everyone in range.

3 Voice probably won’t be a thing, is the bandwidth is very small and it would be a real struggle to get it to work in a useful way. Still could happen though! Regular radios still work best for voice

You can look at ADSB history to see if a plane was in the area then

For me the initial signal from the plane was at 30k ft and about 40 miles away.

I agree with the plane theory, one time my nodes were hopping to a plane and reaching nodes in Canada with the farthest node reached being 115mi/185km

As far as I know the frequencies Meshtastic plays with doesn’t really do anything crazy when it comes to propogation. That’s why good line of sight is so vital

I wish I could depoly a node on a water tower!

Dealing in Absolutes

Let the Hate Flow

Usually I’ll get that when the battery is too low. USB power/charging normally does the trick for me :/

They like free speech that doesn’t get them immediately banned, not free speech for everyone else’s ideas

Look out for Legless Lego Legolas

The antenna page in the docs has a section called “Testing Reports” and there’s a link to a Github repository and that will give you a whole list

For the T beam supremes I chose the Taoglas 2113 and it’s been solid. The ability to bend it 90 degrees lets me get lay it on the long side and keep it plugged in if I want