The spirit of these sorts of projects is great. I doubt a little that the mesh network future will ever materialize, but I'd be very happy to be wrong. Additionally, the prepper instinct is strong and sometimes it is good to familiarize yourself with stuff like this in case the apocalypse strikes.

But also, perhaps this isn't just about the cyberpunk future of our dreams. Here are the reasons they give for running something like this now:

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The spirit of these sorts of projects is great. I doubt a little that the mesh network future will ever materialize, but I'd be very happy to be wrong. Additionally, the prepper instinct is strong and sometimes it is good to familiarize yourself with stuff like this in case the apocalypse strikes.

But also, perhaps this isn't just about the cyberpunk future of our dreams. Here are the reasons they give for running something like this now:

> * Run a local offline AI assistant on your own machine with `llama.cpp`
> * Turn a laptop plus Meshtastic radio into a resilient **LoRa mesh node**
> * Send and receive **TAK / ATAK / CoT** map objects over the mesh
> * Keep chat, telemetry, and node awareness working during outages
> * Move value off-grid with **Bitcoin** and **Cashu ecash**
> * Store everything locally in `./data/` with no accounts and no hosted backend