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Yes, HAM radio that can be used as an alternative. Here are some resources: https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:HAM_Radio https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:HAM_Radio

• teddyh 5y ago
  Ham radio, for which you need a license issued by the government, the very same government which took down the internet.
  • gaius_baltar 5y ago
    > Ham radio, for which you need a license issued by the government, the very same government which took down the internet. But as the government is now the enemy, why would somebody refrain from operating without a license? And managing from being found, of course. OTOH, hams from other countries may refuse to communicate with unlicensed users, splitting the network...
    • bserge 5y ago
      https://youtu.be/B3EBs7sCOzo https://youtu.be/B3EBs7sCOzo
• JshWright 5y ago
  "Ham" isn't an acronym and shouldn't be written in all caps. Using ham radio as an internet replacement (even for basic communication) isn't exactly trivial though. I have all the necessary bits lying around, and years of experience with the topic, and it would still take me quite a bit of fiddling to get a functional AX.25 link up and running (and that's just my end of it).
  • kingcharles 5y ago
    I was going to fire back and nitpick your use of lower-case Internet, but I see the tide has changed and I'm now on the losing side of history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization_of_Internet
    • JshWright 5y ago
      I wouldn’t really consider HAM/ham to be a nitpick though… If I capitalized a random WORD in a sentence, wouldn’t that look odd?