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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • The range is too small with Meshtastic to be useful for connecting a large group. I did some practical range testing with myself and a friend both running a node and me driving around to see what sort of range I could get. We’re 3.5 miles away from each other and it seemed like we’d need a decent amount of repeaters to be able to chat without an internet backbone doing the work.

    Maybe in a smaller town with more active neighbors believing in this it would be easier. In a large (flat) metro area, it’s tough to get meaningful coverage without putting in a lot of work building human connections and convincing people to run nodes.


  • I think it depends where you’re coming from. For me:

    • I owned an oculus 1 dev kit, and had some experience with VR a long time ago and enjoyed it, but there weren’t many games.
    • Meta bought oculus and requires a meta account to even use their devices, so that’s a no for me.
    • Valve index looked interesting, but I wasn’t aware of it at launch, and by the time I was, there were whispers of a successor, so I wanted to wait.

    So I have no VR headset and I want to get into again. From my research, this is the best all around non-meta headset on the market (especially if you’re getting the color pass through accessory). Plus I love Valve’s whole model of making things free, open source, and interpretable. So supporting them financially is fine by me as well.




  • To add on to what the other commenter said, these are certificates, and from the look of it, root certificates.

    This is the underpinning of HTTPS and modern web encryption. Here’s the problem they are solving:

    If you want to make a secure connection to Amazon and make sure data you are sending them is really Amazon and not someone pretending to be them, a root certificate is how you do it. There’s more nuance than I’m explaining, but it cryptographically verifies you are talking to who you think you’re talking to.

    There is no good reason to manually be deleting them. Leave them alone, it’s not hurting anything.