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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by iloveDigit@piefed.social to c/meshtastic@mander.xyz

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.

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[-] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago

It is known that the chip itself is not open source, and that is unfortunate, but the software being built on top of it absolutely is open source.

So you are only half right.

this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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