Thanks I didnt see that. Ill add it to the description.

Your seeing it for me.

That and ebooks/royal road/audiobooks via phone. Just make it look kinda like work and you should be good.

Alternatively, try to learn something new. Theres a lot of online resources out there!

Ill probably be stealing parts of your code for the python side at some point. I haven’t decided if I want server side scripting at all on my dinky phone. Mostly because of power requirements. But I may!

What are you running on? Mine is a pixel 6a, cracked screen :). Worth 20$ online from what im seeing haha.

Ill try. Im still ordering all the parts (solar panel, maybe 3d print?). The phone is actually, in many ways, the easiest to work with. Its also sorta strange. With termux, the best I can describe is that its UNIX based and then you can get the tools you are used to to make it truly gnu/linux. I had to put a plethora of tools to make it useful.

Ill be adding more in the coming weeks. https://solar.chrisco.me/

Coo! Yeah im building a couple of sites on phones too. Turns out its suuuuper cheap compared to trying to get all the parts together (even a pi).

nice! So your hosting this on a phone?

Its crazy, we are seeing unrelated services stop sending emails, issues with DNS, all sorts of strange stuff.

Amazon sneezes, the whole internet catches a cold.

Im still seeing services up/down the entire day at work. Services that are not even AWS like Azure are slow for some reason (probably businesses failing over to other infa). Its crazy.

None of our in office infa is having issues. Managers are talking about fail-overs all day lol.

Got the log?

Yeah I heard of wikipedia, but not debian.

git and the lot are a lot better at this than people realize.

Did I miss something? Whats happening to debian stable?

I would love to hear this talk!

I don’t.

Interesting, maybe! Ill take a closer look with the RTLSDR. I could swear it wasnt as chatty before. Thanks!

longfast. Thats about it. Ive had the system up for the last year and a half. Switched over to core and it stopped having issues all together communicating with a friend. I agree with you though, the lack of open source is a huge issue. MOST of the code is open source, but its strange their client is not. You can get around it by using the cli tools…but it just doesn’t have the traction meshtastic does.

What I really want is both to work together on a better repeater tech. Core is the only one I can get working over a fairly complex mesh. But meshtastic is much better in most other ways.

It should easily take the traffic, from what my RTLSDR says. Its just the amount of hops. It gets to 3 and stops. If you add more (say 5) it gets to a couple of friends of mine. But it starts doing some stuff to the network (lots of traffic in a short period of time). In an emergency situation, most of the mesh goes down (most of them are powered by the grid). But the personal ones were still working. But yeah the walky talkies were much better and working well at that time.

Heshtastic is fun, but It has the issue (in my area at least) where a good half of the messages dont get through, even though there is at least 40 devices in our area. Its a problem. The bounce limit means we have issues communicating and it comes in waves/sporadically.

We have had more luck with meshcore getting the actual messages out, but it has the opposite problem. No one uses meshcore so it doesn’t matter how much better is it at communication.

Both are awesome projects dont get me wrong. I love playing around with both as a side hobby. Hopefully its better where you are at.

Ironically the best was a walky talky for emergencies.

NGL a piece of paper and a calendar. It’s not high tech but its worked.

I code around 10% of my day. The rest is just meetings about things people want, emails about bugs that occur and small fixes, finding out what network did again and re-doing the automatic syncs again.

Ironically in all my jobs coding is actually one of the smallest/least time consuming things I do. I do much more coding on my own time than at work. And all without AI. Cause AI is silly (and if you dont self host, your coding for Microsoft/OpenAI/Github/etc…etc…).

My suggestion, try to make the smallest MVP possible and just iterate on it. Find a cool game engine? Great! Try to make the character appear on the screen, then do other things. Find a cool library, great! Try to use the library in a small project. It doesn’t work for everyone, but it has helped quite a few people. Do what gives you motivation. Or fix something you hate. Hate is an excellent motivation.

This is fascinating!