As a recent linux convert I found printer drivers and setups to be a pain and getting java runtime working was a process but everything else was about a days worth and it just works. Hell, even hitting the windows key on the keyboard and typing the ms name for stuff pops up the relevant linux program. If you didn't know you were looking at something different, it wouldn't be obvious for the most part.
Don't worry, I am sure Ted Cruz and John Cornyn thought through the logistics just like they did when saying they were going to steal the space shuttle from the Smithsonian.
Not to mention, he is an immature narcissistic idiot, by MULTIPLE accounts (as well as my own personal opinion). Think about how someone who actually knows the system could use this unrestrained power that has been grifted to him... Its not going to be good. The amount of stuff these shitstains have fucked up is going to take at least a generation to un-fuck assuming power is restored to the populous in the next election which is a big assumtion...
Yeah the docs are not good, I have been lucky to have a friend with lots of experience in their ecosystem who has been schooling me up on it. Once I got the basic configuration setup its been fine.
I may regret saying that in a bit when I go to add my other components, like my adguard/pi-hole, vpns, ip cameras, and other networked devices but the basic test setup I have now seems to be stable enough to deploy.
I have not seen the connection loss issues but I will keep an eye out for it.
You REALLY need to be explicit about the renewable requirement on that. In Texas they have been building basically unregulated and non-grid tied gas power plants to fuel this shit.
They are not open source but I just started dipping my toes into the Mikrotik ecosystem and the hardware has been pretty nice from what I have seen. I am not a network guy, just a homegamer coming from normal asus routers though. They have a couple of options for adding cell service via sim cards but I have not looked too far into it.
Edit: it looks like there is an openwrt release for the rb5009ug I am using. I may need to check that out.
I don't think something of this risk should be left to individual, non-publicly maintained or controlled devices. This is specifically an area where the time to act is short and oftentimes the public is either in the river or river adjacent so they wouldn't have their phone.
That said, there should be better cell service for the reasons you listed, I just don't think it is the solution to the loss of life here.
Yeah, I was trying to tell the poster above why a cell message or triangulated gps signal wouldn't work. This area is remote and needs proper infrastructure with dedicated alarms to function in a safety critical capacity.
There are already tornado sirens in the area around Seguin, so clearly they can afford some kind of warning, but then using budget as the reasons to avoid spending on this kind of thing has always been a bad faith argument.
A lot of that area is remote or in canyons so cell service is spotty at best.
Edit: that is to say, you need a dedicated system specifically for warnings like this with real power sources, physical alarm devices, and either hard wired data systems, or data systems that are on radio towers high enough up to actually function and function properly in bad weather.
No, the generic usb driver wouldn't work for me. I only was able to get it to print a test page weirdly.