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  1. Jan 2026
    1. How to form an Internet Resiliency Club: Collect a group of internet-y people within ~10 km of each other Decide how to communicate normally (Signal, Matrix, email, etc.) Buy everyone LoRa (Long Range) radios and a powerbank with trickle charge Install Meshtastic on the LoRa radios Choose a LoRa channel to communicate on Organize meetups, send messages over Meshtastic, have fun If you work for a internet infrastructure company, you can suggest giving interested employees a LoRa radio, a mobile phone powerbank, and maybe even a small solar panel for their personal use (perhaps as part of an annual gift or bonus).

      this is half a plan. The LoRA stuff is to be able to keep comms within the group up if they fail. And the group is then expected to bootstrap general connectivity. The rest of the page only deals with LoRa and choosing devices. No word on the actual work of achieving internet resilience, other than 'collect a group of internet-y people'.

  2. May 2024
    1. Useful interesting description of DIY solar installations not aimed at full electricity generation but application specific power (e.g. laptop phone charging, lamps, fans). With/out storage. If you list the specific things you want to run on solar you can perhaps have solar capacity specifically for it. Practical implementation of [[Design for intermittency 20190114164941]]