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CLI Meshtastic flasher that works well. No internet mesh networking sounds awesome; just the bandwidth is extremely limited

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Neat! Question - how have you used Meshtastic so far? It sounds cool, but the use cases people always bring up seem a bit forced.

Kids text only cell phone. LILYGO T-Deck Plus. I can track and communicate with them and not have to worry about giving them full internet.

Any sort of disaster they also are useful to get messages around. A couple days into a power outage and no cell towers work anymore, this happened 1 week before thanksgiving in the Seattle area 2024.

Oh, neat! I didn't realize there were such ready-out-of-the-box items for Meshtastic.

Thanks!

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