Agreed; having a network already established is going to be needed.

You can further obfuscate your location by only powering up to communicate at predetermined times, and never on a schedule that can easily be guessed. Thankfully, what further helps out is that many ‘smart meters’ being used by utilities uses the 915Mhz band; meaning, there’s going to be a lot of activity on it, so just someone selecting the 915Mhz band and following that to message sources is going to lead to a lot of dead ends.

Just wait until your average beat cop is given Federal powers to “assist”, regular citizens are deputized with Federal powers, or military units are tasked with rounding up people en masse.

Those are very likely going to happen. Logistically, it is the only way he can round up everyone he wants. There are 14 million undocumented immigrants in this country. If he were to evenly split how many are detained and deported, that is 3.5 million annually, or, just under 9,560 people a day. ICE isn’t staffed for that, having only 20,000 employees (general employee number count, many of those may not be ‘field officers’). Even including Customs Border Patrol and their 58,000 employees (most of which can’t be tasked with field missions because they need to work the borders themselves), empowering standard law enforcement and Federalizing the military is the only option to logistically complete Trump’s task.

And, when rounding up nearly 10,000 people a day, there are absolutely going to be innocent US citizens kidnapped as a result. And if Trump’s goal is to not just detain but deport that number of people as well, that means that there are likely going to be law-abiding US citizens who are kidnapped and flown into a foreign prison without any due process. There may be US citizens already caught in the process of this; sadly, we don’t know. The US government may determine that it would just be easier for them to just be “disappeared” rather than bring them back to the US and spill the story to the media. US families will just one day find that their husband, wife, son, or daughter didn’t come home from school or work, or was taken in the middle of the night, and vanished with no confirmation or acceptance of responsibility from the government.

Democrats are spineless and shameless. They had the capability to do so, yet sat with their thumbs up their asses because they wanted to “take the high road” in a game where their opponents are slinging mud and smearing feces on the walls.

Republicans openly show contempt for the law, just as much as Democrats make no effort to hide an unwillingness to enforce it.

Most of my nodes are in enclosures backed by solar with a large 120Wh LiFePO4 battery, or otherwise hardwired to a power source with a 3Ah battery in the case. Portable ESP32 units are good for a few days of constant use with the 3Ah battery included.

Looking at getting a T-deck though, for when carrying anything with a cellular connection (even cell turned off) is going to be comprisable.

I have a feeling “disturbing” is going to be a word used quite a lot this year.

Sealed in mylar with O2 absorbers, steel cut oats easily have a 15 year shelf life. Cook time, maybe 5-10 minutes. Uncut oats can do 25+ years, but they aren’t as much “pull out and cook” as steel cut are.

Uncommon because I don’t hear it being pushed a lot for food, but oats. They’re cheap (about the same price point as many beans, about $0.60-$1/lb), but are such a fantastic, well rounded food. Protein, fiber, carbs, are good for blood sugar and cholesterol, and can be eaten alone or used as a filler for breads, meatloafs, and other baked goods. They also don’t take as much water to cook as dried beans do.

No. Soundproofing foam doesn’t do anything to protect you from it.

Well, that’s just lovely. I don’t know how they expect to pull off $4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts without a) severely gutting Medicare/Medicaid, b) adding trillions to our deficit, or c) both.

The next few months are going to have my anxiety levels at their peak as we start to see the effects of everything. Much of what Trump wants done has been held back by the courts because it is Congress with the “power of the purse” that dictates what money is spent where. With this, that opens the floodgates.

So, in other words, Trump tasked Elon Musk to hire a someone to play the Battlefield World of US Police Soldier games*, and write up a plan based on that.

*yes, I know that isn’t an actual game. They’re all the same to me. Generic copy paste FPS soldier games.

For weather outlooks, I am a huge fan of Ryan Hall.

https://www.youtube.com/c/RyanHallYall

I wonder if we should try to get a sticky’d thread of ‘alternate news sources’ together for various topics?

To start. Next will be those who oppose him politically. I have little doubt that we would utilize voter registry to specifically target registered Democrats to “volunteer” in labor camps once the realization that the agricultural workforce has been run out of the country.

Oh, and he is. But no doubt he has people like Musk telling him how, even if Musk wasn’t having Tesla stock fold in front of him, his tariffs are going to kill his car sales (especially the cyber truck which has a ton of aluminum).

He knows. He’s been told. But he’s sticking to his story of how tariffs are a “tax break” on the people, it is other governments that pay them, and has his press secretary saying the same, even going so far as to throw insults at agencies who correctly call them out on their bullshit.

Trump is dumb, but not so dumb that he doesn’t know exactly what he’s doing. He just doesn’t care about consequences because he’s neither faced them ever in his life, nor does he intend to face them in the future.

If I’m sideloading apps, it is usually because I want nothing to do with their storefront or nonsense.

Not a war crime the first time. Sit down, Donald.

My plans. Plans for everything, and plans for those plans if they fail, and tertiary plans. I love plans. SOPs (standard operating procedures). I’d rather have a solid plan for everything reasonable (and some unreasonable) than all the gear in the world with no plan. Plans documented, memorized, printed and digitized. I had a very logistics-heavy role in the military, and as a civilian with a family in this day and age of so much uncertainty, I’m honestly more focused on them than I was when I was serving.

Oh, this is just fucking lovely. WTF, people.

It’s definitely a cool option for complete off-grid comms. There is the option to use MQTT as well for messaging, but that requires internet to work. I’m planning for no internet, so that’s what I ‘train’ with. You can make it so you are on the ‘open’ channel for anyone to jump into, directly contact individual nodes, and/or make ‘channels’ that only other people with the same encryption key can access for group chats. No subscriptions or anything else, plus there are a ton of different hardware types available, antennas, and other options. And overall, fairly inexpensive to get started.

The only real ‘difficult’ part is if you live near a mountain range. Without other nodes from other people around the peaks or setting up repeater nodes yourself, getting past mountain ranges isn’t going to happen.

Right now, a Heltec 3. Better antenna though, mounted on a pole. I have an even better antenna coming soon with a cable so I can move the unit inside and have it on one of my solar batteries, since the little 3000mah one is good, but won’t last long.