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not at all, many do run both, although usually a preference for one or the other presents itself quickly

true, that tends to happen when there's a better but lesser known choice for most applications; one feels motivated to share. To each their own though, there's all kinds out here. Some people like linux, some people like windows, some like to do both

lu5ton An Introduction to Meshtastic

Meshcore is MIT licensed open source firmware. There are both open source and closed source client softwares. You get to choose which you support. I think that's where the confusion comes in. It's no more for-profit than Meshtastic, which gets revenue from partnerships with hardware vendors

lu5ton An Introduction to Meshtastic

If you're interested in Meshtastic, just try Meshcore instead. It's the natural hobbiest progression. Eventually you'll get tired of Meshtastic being nothing but telemetry from unknown nodes, nobody talks, it's a ghost town of weak links. Meshcore on the other hand has people actually having conversations, networks that span whole states, and diagnostic tools that actually work and are informative for describing the network around you.

lu5ton An Introduction to Meshtastic

It totally is a real project. Their marketing guy tried to take off with the trademark, long story. He's the vibe coder, and is trying to carry on like it's all good while the community went with the actual firmware/client devs.

I'd argue at this point there's more MeshCore networks in the world than Meshtastic

lu5ton Senate passes bipartisan bill to subsidize U.S.-made semiconductor chips

Federal legalization of cannabis

lu5ton So, today, for the first time in *25* years of Apple, I downgraded

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro that I.T. has offered to replace.

Nooooope! By the looks of how things are trending, I'm keeping this thing until I move on or they fire me.

lu5ton Georgia Tech Creates Cybersecurity Master’s Degree Online for Less Than $10k

Once you get to a reasonable level of career experience, college is not beneficial for your bottom line. At least that's been my experience.

lu5ton An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

Calculus is not a requirement to graduate high school in America. Algebra, sure.

lu5ton Snapchat Founders’ Grip Tightened After a Spat with an Early Investor

How is one supposed to view the article? Even the web link doesn't work, as all results present a paywall.

lu5ton Google Isn't Playing Games with New Chip

paywalls suck

lu5ton Introducing Pseudo IPv4

If I want to pirate content, your Carrier Grade NAT looks quite attractive as a legal shield!