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Selfhost offline software (lemmy.ml)

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Recently in Spain we have suffered a complete power outage, with no electricity for a long time. Some were able to have power on their computers with generators, solar panels, etc. And I know you can have data connectivity with SDR or HAM radio. But my question here is, what are some good self-host/local offline software that we can have and use for when something like this happens. I know kiwix, and some other for manuals. Please feel free to share the ones you know and love, can be for any type of thing as long as it works completely offline, just name it. Of course for GNU/Linux (using Arch myself BTW). Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Meshtastic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

Also Reticulum Network Stack! Much more ambitious than Meshtastic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

doesn't this one needs a specific set of hardware? is it affordable here in Europe? thanks for sharing, I have heard of this for a long time but didn't get onto it, might look now that this happened

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Yes, it requires hardware

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

@iii @6R1MR34P3R Depends on how good of a setup you want, but you can start for less than €50.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

im willing to pay up to €100 more or less

can you recommend a kit or just works hardware for meshtastic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

@6R1MR34P3R Some of the LILYGO devices are great for use straight out of the box. I have a T-Echo as my portable device, the T-Deck Plus is also an option if you want something completely stand-alone rather than controlled over Bluetooth or USB. Note that the 868MHz band is more widely used due to congestion on 433MHz, (915MHz is for the Americas and isn't legal here)