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.


Well here’s your problem
You are using open/closed source differently than everyone else
That’s hardly their only problem…
Nope, I’m using it differently from people who use it wrong. That’s part of using terms correctly.
So what exactly is stopping you from building your own radio and writing meshtastic firmware for it?
I have no idea what it takes to push open source development to where it can compete with proprietary stuff like meshtastic/LoRa.
Really good coders do it, e.g. Opus audio codec beating many proprietary audio codecs, but I’m not a coder.
I’m gonna have to work with off-the-shelf stuff. An option I’m considering now is Reticulum, with non-LoRa hardware.