Oh yeah, as long as it can handle that, then you’re fine.

I feel like a lot of people wouldn’t necessarily know the difference and might end up starting a fire or something without meaning to.

Remember, that map is volunteer and only shows nodes of a day or less.

For example, I am the only node in my area who voluntarily puts myself on the map, but there are 10 others who do not.

You have to use an outlet capable of handling the max instantaneous load. That way you don’t end up welding the relay in the on position.

As an example, my window air conditioner takes 600 watts to run, which is perfectly fine. But during startup, it takes 1800 watts. The plug i have can handle that quick spike, but its really not designed for it.

Thats a bad idea because of power draw overload during motor startups.

Not that im aware of. SeeedStudio has released a new solar node to be a repeater though

I was thinking a vibration sensor connected to home assistant, but that would work too.

That’s pretty much exactly what they are. Text message in walkie-talkies. With the added benefit that if your friend can’t hear you, but another friend is in between, your message automatically gets relayed through their walkie-talkie.

Have a look at meshmap.net. That shows people who have voluntarily put themselves on a map.

Although it can be a serious underestimation, for example in my area, I’m the only one who lists myself on the map, but there are about 10 other nodes that don’t

Edit: Also, the number of nodes on MeshMap has pretty much doubled in six months since I started playing with it.

You can have one or the other. If you choose high bandwidth, you’re going to get very short distance because you can’t do serious error correction, etc. If you choose long range, you’re going to get low bandwidth because you need to include error correction, etc. In the transmissions.

Companies are starting to manufacture repeaters and they are not that expensive. You can get one for about 100 Federal Reserve Notes.

Nope, still hate it.

The late 90s to early 2000s PCs I remember were that god awful beige color that I absolutely hated. It was fucking horrible.

Like in my mind, I associate that particular color of beige to dinosaur tech that’s not worth having around.

Well then that’s just too bad for me, isn’t it?

Obviously I have my phone on me so I could just dial 911. If your phone breaks when whatever occurs to you, then your spouse or whatever isn’t going to be able to track your location and you’re not going to be able to call 911 either. So either way you’re fucked.

If this was demanded of me, I would end the relationship immediately. That’s absolutely not worth it.

My comment from an earlier version of this post

https://lemmy.zip/comment/20346816

Just based on the title, since I haven’t read the article yet, that’s quite unfortunate. I would want all of them to be practically identical, so there’s no way to trace them at all.

Edit: After reading the article, I stand by my above statement. I still want them to be completely identical if at all possible.

Thats true, i just didnt want to setup the reverse proxying for that. Also, its DoH ao my isp doesnt get my dns.

My DNS is from controld.com.

What you do is you log into your router and on the local area network page there’s generally a section to change the DNS settings of your router and you just put in the IP addresses that control D gives you.

You can also set it up on iOS and Android so that you are also protected when you leave your home network and are on the go on your cellular network.

As I said, along with Control-D, I also use U-Block Origin to catch anything that it might miss.

The other thing to do is use as many open source applications as you can possibly get away with.

Because it can be stupidly easily controlled by the government. If there’s a pandemic and they don’t want you going more than five miles from your house, they can literally turn off your money if you are more than five miles away from home.

Did you eat too much meat this week? Your money gets turned off because you used too much carbon.

Did you take part in a protest the government disapproves of? Good luck eating for the next month with no money to pay for your groceries. Have fun starving.

I have my entire network running with a DNS that blocks all advertising by default. And then, just to make absolutely certain, I run browsers with UBlock Origin on them.