u/MasterDefibrillator

So Rnode firmware has the ability to support multiple radio interfaces sumultaniously. The advantages are obvious and significant. Being able to run both a long range, low throughput, and a short range, high throughput lora network, simultaneously.

https://reticulum.network/manual/interfaces.html#rnode-multi-interface

I'm wondering if anyone's done this or knows of any build guides? I've never seen a lora device with multiple transceiver support? Or is it just a matter of having two entirely separate lora devices?

I'm planning to use my phone effectively as my laptop, and I'd like to be able to push to my rngit node from my phone.

Anyway to do this today or anyone working on that?

Say I'm connected to various backbone nodes; I have auto discovery on, auto connect on 4, and bootstrapped. But when I send a message, it fails to find a path (maybe end node is off), attempts a PN stamp, but then just fails. PN is enabled etc.

> Hanson’s November address at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where she declared Australia an “economic and social tinderbox” to a room of American conservative powerbrokers, was almost certainly more than a mere ‘legitimising’ event.

> The surge since looks less like the natural afterglow that comes from hanging with kindred spirits and more like a blinding flash after a local franchise is formally plugged into a near-infinitely funded global apparatus.

on https://rmap.world/

I see many nodes with addresses starting with rns. how do you get such a domain name?

So I've realised that turning discovery on and auto connect 3, especially with a bootstrap, will very quickly get you connected. But I also get the impression that this is not necessarily needed?

As far as I under stand it, and I'msure i'm wrong, autodiscovery just gives you routing information. But that the routers are there listening regardless. But it would be possible to just listen passively and get it too? Just take much longer. I don't understand what exactly autoconnect does on top of that. What additional functionality does it bring to autodiscovery?

Also, as I understand it, without transport enabled, your device will never rebroadcast? But that your device does not need to be discoverable to rebroadcast.

Project NOMAD is an answer for an offline knowledge library in case you lose access to the internet or are living off grid. It has an easy setup wizard that allows you to download and navigate complete versions of wikipedia, global maps, public domain books, Kahn academy, and much more.

It seems to me that it would be an interesting combination with the steam frame. For one, it's a linux install. For two, the low power usage of ARM is beneficial for an off grid knowledge library. For 3, the potential accessibility the steamframe brings to an offgrid mobile knowledge library that otherwise would not be possible with traditional monitors and keyboards. Think multimonitor setup you can access with the worlds most valuable knowledge wherever you go.

Anyone have any thoughts on this or criticisms of why it would be a bad idea?

The attack on CGT changes around a narrative of decreased investment is framed in a world where investment is some inherent good, with the implication being, it helps everyone get jobs etc. However, in Australia, investment into what is called "gross capital formation", which is the kind of capital that actually generates jobs, has been in a constant decline since 1960

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.GDI.TOTL.ZS?locations=AU

Today, only 24 percent of GDP is the result of actual job creation type investment in the economy. Think chairs and computers for office workers, or tractors for farmers. Australia has a serious problem with investment and growth being decoupled from the real economy. Investment in Australia is far from an inherently good thing.

This is a symptom of what is often called the "financialisation" of the economy. More and more wealth is created without creating anything real that employs people, be it chairs and computers for office workers, or tractors for farmers. I think these CGT changes directly target this kind of financialisation investment, while incentivising investment in gross capital formation.

See, technically, both shares and houses are what is called secondary markets. When you buy a house, you're usually not literally paying the person who built the house. When you buy shares, you're usually not literally giving money to the company associated with those shares. i.e. you're not directly investing in any real economic activity. That's a secondary market. It's an entirely financial investment, with perhaps some indirect investment in the real or primary economy. Now, there's plenty of arguments to get into here about how much inflating assets in a secondary market actually improves investment in a primary market. But it is safe to say that the effect of inflating assets in secondary market is largely a financialisation, and if any gross capital formation is caused, it is secondary and smaller. So the net effect of investment in shares is a wealth redistribution to the wealthy with no associated gross capital formation. i.e. there's no trickle down.

Clearly, the graph above already shows that this is an increasing issue in Australia. Today, only 24 percent of GDP results from actual job creation type investment. These CGT changes are a direct mechanism that would increase that number, by incentivising more investment in the primary markets, where taxes are not changing. That is, instead of buying some shares, with the CGT changes, someone is more incentivised to start their own building company. And furthermore, they are accompanied by many supports labor is legislating for startup companies and other PRIMARY markets that actually mostly create gross capital formation, instead of of financialisation.

In season four, it's this weird public-private venture run by indentured slaves. Yes, indentured slaves. Miles is told early on that if he just quits, he is placed into 150,000 debt. They also do not seem to have any rights of any citizens of any kind, and all appear to have been brought up under false pretenses. It's basically a corporate dictatorship, but where the commander is a NASA employee. This just seems to be doubled down on in season 5. a "governor" appointed by no-one that lives there, limited to no rights of assembly (people are told that there's an illegal amount of them congregating in the town square area), and a "police" force that appears to work for a private, Russian, company.

At the end of the day, the people of mars appear to be living under one of the greatest tyrannies of modernity. The show just doesn't really seem to acknowledge this though? And certainly never tries to explain or justify how such a thing could exist in the geopolitical setting it is written in. Instead, you have teenagers writing "free mars" on walls and being called immature and stupid for it.

I'm really enjoying the show. But I have struggled with this.

So you could see a virtual representation of whatever HOTAS you were using in VR.