How so?
the radios are cheap and work incredibly well
But they're proprietary. Which is bad.
Edit: and to be clear, it's not just that the radios are proprietary black boxes, which is bad, it's also that by using them, you make it necessary for all other parties you communicate with to use matching proprietary black boxes, which is bad squared.
there isn't much of a reason for someone to homebrew their own
Especially when there's an existing, open standard for communication using the same principles.
the actual radios
Looks like we're using different terminology. I mean the bits that take care of the RF part. The "chirp spread spectrum". Perhaps "modem" would be a better word.
But regardless, whatever word you use to refer to it, it's proprietary. And that's bad.
back then
I don't know when that was.
The war has always been a horror show. It's always been David vs. Goliath. The Ukrainians have always been facing a long road of death and destruction on their way to victory.
What about when people were saying they were going to retake Crimea?
I don't understand your question.
in a losing war
What makes you think it's a losing war?
It's not looking good
It's never looked good. Nothing's changed.
I take it you're American? Let me give you some unsoliticed advice: get over yourself. America isn't as important as you think like to think you are, either to Ukraine or in general.
Fuck the Saxe-Coburg and Gothas.
Free access to information meant everyone would be educated and informed, and able to freely communicate and organize.
Could be, not would be. They still can be. But they won't be.
Corporations turned it into a tool of oppression.
No the people turned it into a tool of distraction from the pain of life using the tools corporations were happy to provide.
Technology has never and will never save us from capitalism on its own.
Capitalism isn't the reason that free access to information hasn't educated and informed everyone. Exactly the same indifference to education and organisation would exist in the absence of capitalism. The limitation isn't capitalism, the limitation is the suffering that life necessarily implies. In the face of relentless suffering, most people are not motivated to learn beyond what's necessary to survive.
there study
Hasn't helped you learn to the difference between "their" and "there".
That's not what "interest" in "public interest" means.