Something is wrong with the link or website.

The idea as a PoC is not bad, but it would probably make more sense to use an open standard like GNU Taler for it and only do the data transmission over Meshtastic.

Hetzner probably has some spare modules…

Because there exists only one place in the world and that is called US of A? 🙄

Saudi Arabia is still the biggest oil exporter in the world (as of 2024). If you drive an internal combustion car anywhere, chances are high that you paid the Sheiks at least some money for doing so.

Don’t look online, ask friends and family if someone has an old laptop you can get for free. Very likely someone does, especially if you are ok with a bad battery and/or a broken screen.

A RPi3 can work, but it being ARM based will cause various headaches when learning compared to something x86.

I have bad news for you if you drive a non-electric car 😏

Kinda interesting that there is again interest in galvanic vestibular stimulation. The Valve VR people apparently did a lot of research on that back in the pre Index days, and I assumed since this never resulted in anything that the idea wasn’t really viable as a consumer product for some specific reason.

Typically a video-chat server does no transcoding so this isn’t a major issue. But for hosting a Peertube or Owncast server it would.

The old A/V chats in Matrix were just Jitsi-meet in disguise, but this has been largely deprechiated now with Element Calls.

Trump plans to upload himself 😱

Bitcoin and Ethereum only have liquidity in the market because scammers use it for their pig butchering etc. scams. And all the major exchanges are complicit in that. Many Banks are scammy, yes, but not that scammy by a long shot. Sorry to burst your bubble 🤷

https://movim.eu/ can do that AFAIK, but for now the A/V calls don’t go through an SFU distribution server (coming soonish), so it will not scale to many participants. But if you want to only stream to a few people (like max. 5 or so, depends a bit on your and their internet speed) it should work.

If 99.9% of PCs were solely made to steal your credit card info, then yes.

I have high hopes for GNU Taler in that regard, as it is in theory super easy to include in any website and makes tipping small sums very feasible.

But in reality it is bogged down by bureocractic hurdles on the banking side, and I am starting to lose a bit of hope due to perpetual delays even after some banks promised to support it as part of an EU grant via Nlnet.

Open minded to being scammed? No thanks.

Lol, wat? I have not seen Anubis even once in front of a static page. You are either making shit up or don’t understand what a static site is 🤦

Well… you found your problem then. It is neither my problem, nor a problem of apartments in general 🤷

Release where? And why?

Also: looks too well fed for a stray. Are you sure it doesn’t belong to a neighbour?

DSub2000 is also fairly nice for Android.

Many apartments are owned by the inhabitants or are cooperatively managed.

That is a silly assumption, like why would you assume the worst possible setup? And it would be much easier to talk to the person managing the apartment internet than having to deal with some AI chatbot that pretends to be the support at some shitty ISP.