Meshtastic
 

Did you ever need to sent a text message and the cell tower wasn't there for you? What kind of Back-up communications do you have in your car?
I used to have Ham radio, but found it was not that useful around the Boston area.
Please check out my post over on the other eco.

https://ecorenovator.org/forum/showt...5043#post65043

I've thought about getting a cell booster for in the car, but they are so darned expensive that I'd just be angry if it doesn't work well.

I've got handheld ham sets because they are so cheap these days, but don't have my license yet so I don't carry them.

Softwware based solution:
Hardware based solution:
I have experience with neither.

How about google fi? It's an amalgamation service that doesn't own towers, but has leases from most every server company. Software grabs the best signal / nearest tower and uses that whether or not it's ma bell, sprint, whoever. Roaming Eurpoe has so far been free.

Most towers are multi company, but could be otherwise way out in the boonies

How about "Don't be evil"?

Ship is sailed. Embrace, and amplify time.

Oxford comma???

In the Steve Ballmer and Gates era it was Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish

www.zdnet.com: Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry
When are they going to improve that Search function [upper left] watching over everything we say here?

edit: What blocked Microsoft from complete domination was Free & Open source software, Linux in particular [Raspian in this instance]. Gates bolted and went into contraceptive vaccines. Ballmer rode it right into the ground.

Lots of things disable googles incessant attempt to monetize you, some more efficient than others.

An outward harbinger is you tube suggestions: if they rapidly change to the current search, you aren't blocking all your data. All I get anymore are different results of the last search and search sugestions quote the ravens.