I like the idea of these meshes but until Linux phones become a practical option it doesn’t matter. Apple will restrict the hardware, Google will let Gemini spy on anything that passes through the phone, the phone situation is a mess.
I don’t really blame governments for that either. I blame fucking business majors.
They actually don’t yet have mesh routing, it’s more like an automated sneakernet over BT and shared Wi-Fi right now, until you have access to global Internet. Like ships at high seas exchanging mail and news.
Briar has an alpha stage client for Linux phones among other things, unfortunately I use FreeBSD right now and don’t want to reboot to try it, and without rebooting there are some problems under Linux JRE under Linux emulation, and under native JRE it swears at unknown OS.
I like the idea of these meshes but until Linux phones become a practical option it doesn’t matter. Apple will restrict the hardware, Google will let Gemini spy on anything that passes through the phone, the phone situation is a mess.
I don’t really blame governments for that either. I blame fucking business majors.
They actually don’t yet have mesh routing, it’s more like an automated sneakernet over BT and shared Wi-Fi right now, until you have access to global Internet. Like ships at high seas exchanging mail and news.
Briar has an alpha stage client for Linux phones among other things, unfortunately I use FreeBSD right now and don’t want to reboot to try it, and without rebooting there are some problems under Linux JRE under Linux emulation, and under native JRE it swears at unknown OS.