So I've been playing around with openMANET (and Halow more broadly) and I've come to a couple conclusions:

1) The Heltec HD01 is hot garbage and no one should buy it.

2) I'm not a fan of how openMANET does routing.

3) We need lots of apps that work p2p on disconnected networks.

Selling bootleg band merch out of a van, building a satellite dish to receive weather alerts, experiment with MANET technology. Sure.

Replace my water heater? Nah thats too hard, just live with it.

My brain is exceptionally weird.

"essentials"

I have signed up for notifications on the release of a new automatic can opener.

There must be some wise statement about self-reflection or aging or society or something, but I can't come up with it.

When Trump said "make America great again" i wasn't exactly envisioning 1930 as the target

Yesterday I had a conversation with co-workers at lunch about my belief that public companies should be required to pay dividends

This is the kind of discourse that we're meant to be having, instead of "debating" whether trans people are real or if immigrants have rights.

After many, many years of being good, I have fallen off the wagon of not buying random VoIP gear.

I think I misconfigured something

Well, it took a dirty hack and rewriting some 7 year old code, but I finally have home assistant controlling a TV via HDMI CEC.

I quite enjoy how easy it is to run a PDS. I actually made it more complicated than it needed to be.