Thank you for the detailed reply! Yeah I realize now Mestastic.Org has everything I need.

Planning to prolly get:

A rak wireless kit for a local repeater on my roof powered via PoE, and then a TTGO TEcho for my personal device.

I know that I should just get the latter and play with it first, but I live high on a hill with a great vantage point of the city so feels like a disservice to the community if I don’t also host a repeater.

One thing I’m curious about, is if I use it via poe, can I also send messages via the repeater? I.e. locally from my network initiate a message through my repeater?

I would want it in repeater mode so it would forward any message even ones I don’t have the encryption key for.

How do I do this? Shats the easiest way to get started?

Both a personal device and a repeater on my house

Yes. Clickbait shit

I can’t wait for mine.

Just provide a way to self host searx instance and then provide nightly backups of the DB so you don’t have to run the crawler

Now if only Google would open up RCS to non Google messages apps. It’s just another walled garden.

I love graphene.

Fuck that. I love my 6ghz WiFi.

Yes, 100% you’re right.

I don’t think “godless cop hater” was the insult he thought it was.

Valetudo is the only high end vacuum I’ll ever want. If it wasn’t for valetudo, I would not have a robot vacuum.

I LOVE valetudo though. And therefore I love our vacuum sweepachu

And there it is. Fuck xfinity/comcast

Agreed. Maybe you can pick the default messaging app.

I mean, they’re still doing the exact same shit, just a little more transparent about it: Treat your customers differently based on if they’re new or not. Basically these plans just make it more obvious to customers. If you don’t cancel your plan yearly and resubscribe as a new subscriber, you have to pay an extra $180 a year. Simple as that. And you still have to do that every 5 years.

And if you don’t do it after 5 years you’re paying an extra $420 a year as compared to the 1 year pricing.

Honestly it’s insane. Esp the you still have to cancel after 5 years to keep not getting fucked.

Tailscale with self hosted headscale

How is it not actually an allow list vs a deny list. They should be clearing apps that can be installed and not the other way around.

This. So much this.

Best in chex mix too, and it’s also super great mixed with other cereals. My favorite is crispix and lucky charms and crispix and cocoa krispies. (NOT cocoa pebbles)

Yep. I can’t wait to get mine and be in complete control of my data. No cloud bullshit.

Male genital mutilation.

Yeah idk why people are caught up on this. Encryption is good and absolutely fundamentally important to society. And yes, shitty people can use it too, it doesn’t make it bad.

Google continues to do everything they can to close android down and force everyone to use their os directly. Imo this is a direct attack on graphene OS and anyone based on aosp. Now for every release developers will have to manually merge basically an unusable mess of changes.

Edit: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/21231-google-will-develop-the-android-os-fully-in-private Might not change anything actually.

Seems like graphene is already merging based on tags vs individual commits. It’s also not like google is letting anyone (graphene) merge commits into android.

Iirc the graphene developers have basically given up on up streaming some changes because google doesn’t actually want many of the security fixes/ changes graphene devs make. Their faq still says they’ll try to upstream stuff, I wonder if this will impact that. https://grapheneos.org/faq#upstream