Which degraded their hardware usability so much, that it's literally much worse than a decade ago. Even basic functions like choosing which speaker should play or ... what content to play does not work properly.

Just another company to avoid by now.

With Meshtastic/Meshcore you are open to scenarios like "a repeater on a boat, large group scattered across large marina, nearby town and hiking areas". Or "bigger family skiing in a large resort". You can get insane distances with great reliability if you place a node strategically on the highest point around. And it costs around $100 to buy an (off the shelf) solar node that can run close to 24/7. Some folks out there have amazing use cases in the mountains.

> something that gives actual network use between devices make more sense

There are plenty of Meshcore/Meshtastic independent devices. With keyboards or touch controls and all.

It's just a personal opinion, but I really think this is not the case in reality.

Those guys in the middle of nowhere are the biggest geeks in LoRa networks. They have more practical scenarios, more to gain and better conditions for great distances.

A friend of mine lives far away from me, barely populated area, a big city in between of us. He struggled to get any network traffic, but now he uses narrow antennas to point to particular repeaters and suddenly the whole metropolis is open to him. We talk with acceptable delivery rates (I'm guessing 70%, which is actually very decent in dense area like mine). He is currently trying to expand his local network. His neighbors are less technical, but they have frequent power failures and need alternative way to reach each other.

On the other hand there is A LOT of client nodes and repeaters in my city. Many struggle to reach even a single repeater - hard to access roofs, high buildings, crowded network with plenty of conflicts. This kills motivation for many.

They are implemented a bit differently. The chatty nature of Meshtastic works very well in small groups, or unknown area, when you need to talk a bunch of your friends scattered during a trip, to monitor your tracktors on a large field, etc..

Then you try to scale it to a larger city and it just completely breaks. Then Meshcore.io enters the picture. Every larger community that switches says the same - it's a huge reliability difference. It also comes at a cost of some discipline and more infrastructure planning (repeater nodes).

The more I play with both the more I respect both projects.

As for Reticulum, I don't see it competing in the same category at all. It has much higher aspirations, but also it seems at the moment it's much less practical and popular.

I'd love to explain!

On xbox mobile app you now have a copilot section. It's a chat. If you ask it for current price of something in the store, it will find outdated results from other stores on the internet. That's assuming the "send" button will work, mine often doesn't (it depends on keyboard you use somehow). But app will crash anyway so who cares.

Thank you for your attention.

But also please don't try to find the new one with our search bar. Really, please don't.

As for second - please don't assume who I am and what I do. I work with Teams daily in large org (>500k people). As a user. And as a user I see that I have plenty of apps integrated. It's absolutely idiotic how - they just take away my ability to use chat. Apps are pushed as tabs in group chat, as tabs in Teams teams (It's crazy that this is a thing, it's even worse translated), as icons in menu... And all of them take over the screen so I can't look at a file and chat at the same time. It's possible to open new windows, but you have to plan that in advance. And you can't do that when you have hundreds of chats and groups. And I do have a lot of them in such org, and all of them are large group chats. You can't just have a stable window with just text content. That's what I mean - teams enforces taking over the whole ui to have a look at something, then runs a huge webapp for me to look at it. And doesn't make it easy to come back to your previous context.

> If you don't have the skills to manage it (...)

Again, I don't know what do you reply to. I don't manage teams. I use it. And please don't try to insult like that, it's not cool, especially when you can't even direct your comments to the correct person. I talk of UI, you talk of managing teams as an operator... Maybe that's a teams habit of loosing track of the context, huh?

VMs have a built-in gateway to cloud providers with a fixed url with no auth. You can top that in via the service itself. No need for your own keys.

So likely a good tool for managing AI agents. And "cloud" is a bit of a stretch, the service is very narrow.

The complete lack of more detailed description of the regions except city name makes it really only suitable for ephemeral/temporary deployments. We don't know what the datacenters are, what redundancy is in place, no backups or anything like that.

What is really tiring is using Teams as a tool to embed other websites. Because that's what "apps" and most other functionalities are.

Teams is just a very slow web browser with the worst possible way to manage bookmarks and tabs.

You clearly don't have an organization fully onboarded to Teams, as you yourself describe. You use it as a conferencing tool. When you add all the other bloat Teams promotes it becomes a burden that makes me want to come back to sorting thousands of emails with outlook rules.

But there are a few things that makes me understand why it's not used more:

- It's way too expensive for me to use it in private life/side project

- Data protection and integration into companies is lacking for company use

- They are very, very badly advertised. I still have to watch several YT videos and hope for reddit comments, to figure out what they mean as an "agent", what it can do, and does it really only work with github.

I am recently catching up on a lot of agent-related topics and I still struggle to understand what they are selling.

This is about personal plans. Github Copilot is half the price of any competition I found.

It's just a decent deal for light users.

I came across them in portable radios (portable FM radios, small global radios, plane listening radios and similar).

So not really.

I think they went closed source as there are too many decent clones based off their code and they realized it's eating up their niche.

The zip ties are metal zip ties. Those won't fall off because of UV. Panel is hanging inside the balcony. If it falls, it will fall into the balcony - it's bigger then the rails and ground is solid. It's not running behind the glass, the glass looks taken off. I can't be 100% sure, but it seems so. You can't see how the power cable is pushed into the home, so that's pure speculation.

The picture looks like taken mid-installation, some metal ties aren't even fastened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docking_and_berthing_of_spacec...

US doesn't care about warnings and small fines, though. If penalties are not enforced, it's like they don't exist.

For repeating offenses fines should rise much faster, multiplied by 10x-100x every time, until we find fines so big they are physically unable to pay even if corps would consider liquidating their all global assets. Then lower it just slightly, so that being operational in Europe would produce no financial benefits and see if they'll comply, or just quit themselves.

Recent political and technical events makes me question why do we even attempt to keep such strong relations with megacorp businesses (and, by extension, US gov). We would still be here even if multiple megacorps would die. It would take us decades to build up capacity to have complex tech of our own (fully local). But meanwhile we'd be just fine, just less trendy.