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[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Computers are magic.

Circuit boards are basically runes, written in stone and inlaid with precious metals to conduct pure energy around in very specific ways to do pretty much anything we wish.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's sand we carved into patterns and tricked into thinking with tamed lightning.

Then there's RF (radio frequency) which is the DEEP magic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

As someone who is trying to get Meshtastic to work I feel this. My pocket node can connect to people 50km away, but the base station with the chongus antenna can only connect across town?

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