So you’d need 10,000 of them to generate 1 watt.

Sounds useless.

Don’t know why I could not see this repply until today. It’s been ascertained that chirp is not in the repo for Raspian Linux, so indeed that option never worked.

Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.

Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?

Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.

In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.

Sure… Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.

I’m keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can’t afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.

I think my simple issue here is… I’m not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something

I’d disagree with this.

VPS is opposed to a dedicated server, and actually is a kind of shared hosting because as a VPS user you a allocated a ‘share’ of resources on a machine where others also have a ‘share’ of resources.

Shared housing more typically refers to simpler web hosting where multiple users have their website servers from shared hardware.

So what is the standard fast charging solution they’ve choosen?

The site doesn’t say.

Are we going to see USB-PD in more phones now?

I’d love to see all the different manufacturers standards bugger off.

I know waterproof Type C ports exist as electrical components. So the test is up to the manufacturer to correctly implement it.

Ultimately, Type C is no worse an option to other ports.

At this point I’m limiting what I access and where. I’m targeting a more 1990’s internet experience. I love learning and technical stuff and would miss it if I went off grid, no matter how tempting that is.

I’m actually really trying to play devils advocate… But I’m struggling.

I came to get away from the main stream socials.

I came to minimise my farmed data footprint.

I came to find other like minded people.

These principals alone are shared by quite a few I guess.

If we end up hooked up to the machine we were trying to escape from then coming here was near pointless.

That’s how we differ.

You’re focusing on being radical and using emotional buzz words (death of children), where as I’m actually interested in changing the status quo with regard to cars, and have been effective in doing so at a local level without making an ass of myself.

I share what I’ve achieved when practical and many good discussions come of it.

What have you done today?

Yell at the internet about ‘trucks’ that very few actually use and get a few pats in the back for it?

The difference is, fuck cars is an ineffective and damaging community when it comes to influencing positive change, and you think you’re part of the solution when in fact your part of the problem.

People are never going to take a community like that seriously while so critical and full of negativity.

Lol… No one is going to join your little war when the see the brainless mindless posts that you lot like to circle jerk over.

I’d love to see a massive reduction in the dependence on cars, but you lot are doing more harm than good picking on non issues and making shit up.

Can it make phone calls?

Yeah… Or it could be the complete opposite of all that.

Android / AOSP comes in many flavours from Swiss cheese give your life away security to locked down more than any apple device could be. IOS only comes in 1 flavour.

I like the Fairphone 5 but €40 for a case is unforgivable.

I’m feeling like it’s a gouge because they know not many (if any) 3rd party cases exist.

Generally fair comments there. Hams aren’t really all that interested in FRS, but they can be somewhat protective of their own bands.

According to their claims the transmitter can’t even transmit on FRS frequencies.

5W, not 5mW is the limit. GMRS transmitters up to 50 watts.

Even if it did function in FRS bands the manufacturer would need FCC approval.

Nothing… But with this device the voice part isn’t going over LoRa. It’s going over a 50mW 470MHz to 520MHz (their claim) Thing is FRS is actually 462 and 467MHz… so… could be a mistake or they could actually be not using FRS frequencies at all.

Additionally they don’t appear to have any FCC approvals which would also make it illegal.

So… Misinformation, low power, wrong frequencies, bogus range claims, bogus audio quality claims and no FCC approval is a bit of an issue.

Add to that the Dev posting out on Reddit and then getting hostile when people ask questions. Not ideal.

Looking at the specs and discussion on Reddit where the Dev became hostile I’d be starting the hell away from this.

50milliwat transmitter with CD tone audio? 470+ MHz transmitter, but uses FRS frequencies?

Evening this offers had been done before.

If the Dev want hostile and bullshitting, trying to pass this off as some new thing I think they could actually sell a few of these to people that want something ready built or want to learn about LoRa.

But there is still the issue that the voice side of this will be illegal just about everywhere.

You'd be surprised just how few search engines the are.

Google and Bing are about all there is.

Most other 'search engines' just offload the hard work onto existing search engines.

Very few people actually know DuckDuckGo sources their results from Bing for example.

The infrastructure Mozilla uses to serve their content is microscopic compared to what they'd need to operate a fully independent and capable modern search engine.

How's your WiFi infrastructure? Assuming you have the area covered with WiFi you could go PoC (PushToTalk Over Cellular). There are dedicated handsets you can use for this for as low as USD$50 ea on Ali Express. Being that it's just WiFi there are no licenses to worry about. Having a 2 way radio type handset makes it pretty familiar, buy you can very much use it with existing mobile handsets. Zello seems to be the de-facto standard for this but i believe other options exist.

All i can see is that as per @Inductor@feddit.de it just switches between the audio sources for 'DATA MOD' and 'DATA OFF MOD' in the CONNECTORS menu. Seems like a lame missed opportunity to also configure the other parameters of the radio for data. The addition of the 'PRESETS' menu seems like an additional missed opportunity to do the same. They describe it as a way we can save the state of the radio to suit digital modes… but then fail to let us save the sates of the most important things needed to be changed for digital modes. Seems like such a massive oversight, i just can't understand what they were thinking?

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