• RattlerSix@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    I’ve been fooling around with Meshtastic for a couple years and haven’t come up with a real world use for it yet, other than scenarios like you mentioned.

    What would be really cool is if cell phone makers could incorporate a mesh into their phones as a local public channel when the tower goes out. It would probably just be used by drug dealers or something, but it’s the only cool and functional idea I can come up with.

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      4 hours ago

      Controlling home automation remotely without any internet access.

      Tracking dogs, people or vehicles - again with no internet.

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      9 hours ago

      If they can’t charge an admittance fee or a per message fee, they won’t implement it. It goes against their business model.

      But we can dream.