If you start HAM radio now, in 5-10yrs you'll inherit the local club just by showing up.

It's not hard to her started and along the way there will be lots of cheap radios at estate sales.

Yes, and yet, if users facing those annoyances and very familiar with the issues, like yourself, still have good reasons to stick to Apple, there is no hope.. :)

GM. Just doing a bit of repair on my daily carry. Our local community has been hard at work building a Meshtastic network across the city, and it's growing fast! With tons of devices in the mesh and a new MQTT server, we're now connecting cities across the state into one massive mesh! Exciting times ahead! #meshtastic #mesh #decentralize #arkansas #hackers #hacktheplanet #hackthefort

Right. Thanks, I did not realize. They are sadly implementing the same policies and tracking across their devices.

The problem with iPhones is that you don't actually own the device. You are merely the user. Apple and your government decide how you get to use it.

For those who are setting up personal cloud relays:

1) Trolls will `@` their way onto your relay. It's a loophole you should be careful about using.

2) Overuse of blastr will result in relays black-listing or rate-limiting you as spam, and will result in your notes being spread too wide, to keep things up to date or use delete persistently.

3) Use relay-syncing, where possible, including with the personal relays of your frens, relays from your geographic area, or with topical relays like christpill or an OtherStuff relay like thecitadel. But avoid anything too spammy or otherwise gross.

4) Assume that zap comments and reactions from people not on your whitelist might be lewd or threatening. (I know, how desperate can they be, but it be.) Just thought you should know; don't know of any reasonable way of mitigating that, yet. And I guarantee that those zaps are only 1 sat.

5) Consider also having a relay on a device you control, like a laptop. Then you can work offline and sync with your cloud relay, when you go back online. (And this online/offline syncing is the next phase of relay development, and will open up some nifty new use cases, so you'll be ahead of the curve.)

That is bizarre.

Bitcoiners should stop simping to any political banner or system and realize that they are a new kind of power unto themselves.

It will only be with the full realization of this that peoples will start to organize the new political dynasty and possibilities for a future freed from the lies and corruption of a monetary system that is tied to the current system of party politics.