Thank you for the detailed reply! Yeah I realize now Mestastic.Org has everything I need.

Planning to prolly get:

A rak wireless kit for a local repeater on my roof powered via PoE, and then a TTGO TEcho for my personal device.

I know that I should just get the latter and play with it first, but I live high on a hill with a great vantage point of the city so feels like a disservice to the community if I don’t also host a repeater.

One thing I’m curious about, is if I use it via poe, can I also send messages via the repeater? I.e. locally from my network initiate a message through my repeater?

I would want it in repeater mode so it would forward any message even ones I don’t have the encryption key for.

How do I do this? Shats the easiest way to get started?

Both a personal device and a repeater on my house

👍🏻 Roger Roger thanks for the correction

Yep. I was using ddg but just spun up 2 sear instances for myself. (One on vpn one off)

What are your favorite searxng customizations / bangs?

Duckduckgo is bing. They route their searches there afaik. It’s just a privacy layer, like startpage is a privacy layer on Google.

I plan to recoup the cost in cancelled subscriptions.

Yep. Just ordered 4 12tb hdds for a zfs setup