I spent over 100k sats on 2 pieces of junk good for nothing but a landfill, because of retailers and other websites and random people lying about LoRa mesh protocols being “open source.”

The goal was already to spread the word about lies these retailers and other related sites spread, e.g. gaslighting users about end-to-end encryption, but there’s no point using the network to spread the word about the lie of being open source. It’s a fool’s errand, the corporations already scammed my money out of me and they’ll just use me to make even more money while I try to tell people to stop wasting the money.

So now I have a SenseCap and a Wio Tracker L1 Pro shipping to me for nothing except to scrap for parts like the batteries, and throw the malware transceiver/computer parts in the garbage so nobody can use them to spread this piece of shit malware cult.

Have fun downvoting/removing/banning me, to the majority here moronic enough to side with the scammers even after reading the truth.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    1 hour ago

    It is known that the chip itself is not open source, and that is unfortunate, but the software being built on top of it absolutely is open source.

    So you are only half right.

    • whoever loves Digit 🇵🇸🇺🇸🏴‍☠️@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      No, I’m two halves right and you are wrong.

      The chip itself being closed source isn’t the problem, I knew that before I ordered (and my discussion thread about it on reddit also gave the community the opportunity to clarify the entire ecoystem lying about being “open source” before my money was wasted, but nobody bothered to tell me).

      The problem is the software built on top of it being a proprietary protocol: a LoRa mesh network. Meshtastic and Meshcore are exclusively based on LoRa, which is proprietary, so they are not open source.

      If I bought this for Reticulum, you could say the software was fully open source, but I didn’t.

      It’s like a game that calls itself “open source” when it compiles nothing without a proprietary game engine, or a game engine that calls itself “open source” when it compiles jack shit without DirectX. That’s not open source software, it’s proprietary software with a useless piece of it open-sourced for no purpose except to justify lying about the whole thing being “open source.”

      Deleted my original reply because it didn’t address the core issue enough.