Edit - for anyone that hasn’t noticed, moderators/admins have removed several of my comments and locked the post so new comments can’t be added.
I spent over 100k sats on 2 pieces of landfill trash, because of retailers and other websites and random people lying about LoRa mesh protocols being “open source.”
The goal was already to spread the word about lies these retailers and other related sites spread, e.g. gaslighting users about end-to-end encryption, but there’s no point using the network to spread the word about the lie of being open source. It’s a fool’s errand, the corporations already scammed my money out of me and they’ll just use me to make even more money while I try to tell people to stop wasting the money. There’s simply no productive point when it involves spending money on closed source proprietary shit, and lying about being open source just makes it even worse.
So now I have a SenseCap and a Wio Tracker L1 Pro shipping to me for nothing except to scrap for parts like the batteries, and throw the malware transceiver/computer parts in the garbage so nobody can use them to spread this piece of shit malware cult.
Have fun downvoting/removing/banning me, to the majority here moronic enough to side with the scammers even after reading the truth.
No, I’m two halves right and you are wrong.
The chip itself being closed source isn’t the problem, I knew that before I ordered (and my discussion thread about it on reddit also gave the community the opportunity to clarify the entire ecoystem lying about being “open source” before my money was wasted, but nobody bothered to tell me).
The problem is the software built on top of it being a proprietary protocol: a LoRa mesh network. Meshtastic and Meshcore are exclusively based on LoRa, which is proprietary, so they are not open source.
If I bought this for Reticulum, you could say the software was fully open source, but I didn’t.
It’s like a game that calls itself “open source” when it compiles nothing without a proprietary game engine, or a game engine that calls itself “open source” when it compiles jack shit without DirectX. That’s not open source software, it’s proprietary software with a useless piece of it open-sourced for no purpose except to justify lying about the whole thing being “open source.”
Deleted my original reply because it didn’t address the core issue enough.
Well here’s your problem
You are using open/closed source differently than everyone else
That’s hardly their only problem…
Nope, I’m only using it differently from people who use it wrong. That’s part of using terms correctly.
So what exactly is stopping you from building your own radio and writing meshtastic firmware for it?
I have no idea what it takes to push open source development to where it can compete with proprietary stuff like meshtastic/LoRa.
Really good coders do it, e.g. Opus audio codec beating many proprietary audio codecs, but I’m not a coder.
I’m gonna have to work with off-the-shelf stuff. An option I’m considering now is Reticulum, with non-LoRa hardware.
“But I’m not a coder. ”
Then why the fuck do you care about it being open source?
I guess just because I’m not a coder doesn’t mean I’m retarded?
Are you sure about that?
Are you fucking unfamiliar with “I guess?”
With that definition, no software running on Windows or Mac OS could ever be called open source, since it runs on a proprietary OS
You are incorrect and I’m not sure what made you think this