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I tried to do EC (elimination communication) but wasn't super successful, but it did mean my daughter was very used to sitting on a mini potty regularly well before we did "proper" potty training with big potty. About a month before 2nd birthday got a book about potty training from the library, and then spent a weekend pants free, and she got it very quickly. Got poops a lot faster than pee though, she only had maybe 2 poops in a nappy after her 2nd birthday, but I had to keep putting nappies on for longer drives or trips because she just wouldn't tell me she needed to pee. She was pretty much fully toilet trained by 3, but has had a couple of accidents, 2 bed wetting one end of day at childcare. Not sure about those but not too worried about it.

Good suggestion but no active churches no, and very small ex-church that I'm aware of in a, non particularly high location. We would need to be getting nodes ideally at the top of hills and there are quite a few!

I took two international trips with my now 3yo, one to Thailand and one to Bali, when she was one 1/4 and one 3/4. She was pretty happy both trips except some of the longer flights. I decided not to do longer flights while she is toddler age, so we have only done domestic trips this past year, and fortunately she has been pretty good, but I do centre everything around her, and I'm a single parent. I'm waiting till she is probably or 5 for anything longer now, and can recommend the book Hunt Gather Parent for general parenting advice, though the style is a bit annoying I think a lot of the advice is sound.

The T1000-E is a truly impressively designed piece of kit. I feel like so much I've been into when on bleeding edge is janky or too easy to break, these are solid.

Christopher Alexander is brilliant. Regularly return to A Pattern Language, so much inspiration.

That's very helpful, thankyou! I am still working out the different modes and we're just leaving everything as client at this point but good to know for when we get busier!

Yes for emergency services radio is probably better, but have had the conversation that those bands get very busy when there is actually an emergency, and unless you're directly involved in the emergency response it's better to keep quiet even if you have the devices. To keep everyone else in the loop a mesh would be really helpful and allows for direct comms between people without radio knowledge. I've done enough radio stuff at festivals to know it's a bit daunting for beginners. But these days pretty much everyone, even your grandma, has a cell phone and most understand apps and text messages. So the learning curve is pretty small.

Keen on Reticulum, but my focus atm is Meshtastic because of the ease of use, both Android and iPhone are dead easy to set up in less than 2 minutes and my use case is for more local nodes in most cases that would be with people with minimal technical skills.

That's great you have a node high up, I would love to do that here but not sure where it might be practical to do. What kind of tower is the 200 feet one?

I'm in the middle of the 400 and 200 meter people, they are in opposite directions. I was thinking the Station G2 would be good on the roof of the highest house to extend the mesh further but if no one else interested then I was going to do it on mine, which isn't ideal but would have pretty good reach in one direction, but I'm fairly encouraged with the experiments so far. We get bushwalkers and campers & 4wders up in this area all the time so am expecting to see occasional nodes pop up temporarily if Meshtastic really takes off.

Thanks about the suggestion to try Long Slow, I decided to keep on the default of LongFast at least initially, due to potential for visitors to the region with nodes.

It might be small biccies compared to iron ore to China, but the optics are really bad, and when Australia is included in the tariffs, then psychologically we are siding with Everyone Else in this new US vs Democracy fight. Because that's what the US (tech bros, who are now in charge) are orchestrating: a direct attack on democracy.

So yes, the numbers are small compared to other countries, but the attack is ideological, and real.

I'm sorry for the good ones, but the current actions are a huge threat to democracy worldwide, and while I think the puppet masters expect this response and globalisation is already in the process of collapsing (read The End of the World Is just the Beginning - Mapping the Collapse of Globalisation by Peter Zeihan) we can try and avoid this fate elsewhere. It is NOT inevitable that the tech bros rule us all as serfs, but getting away from Big Tech, means cutting off the US out of our digital lives as much as we can.

Everyone here is ahead of the game 👍