• mesa@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    Unfortunately it’s sold out. In fact it was only available for a very small amount of time.

    • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.ee
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      14 days ago

      it is for digital preppers.

      IF starlink,3/4/5g,home wifi and everything else is dead…THEN LoRa is your toy.

      other than that it might be for the bizarre idea of wizards go hiking or do outside activity. so thats why they produced to few…the story of nerds being outdoors was too unrealistic and prepper incels are just poor.

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        14 days ago

        Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.

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          14 days ago

          dont get me wrong, i love lorawan. the device is just super niche and the real life usecase does not really exist or justify creating more ewaste. in desaster regions people are either poor and wont own the device or local phone company can set up mobil towers quickly and it wont matter.

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            14 days ago

            You can also get a cheap truck radio and it will have tremendously more range than meshtastic…most of the time. In a real life death situation, it would also be more reliable.

            Don’t get me wrong I love meshtastic, but it’s more for hobbies.