Syncthing-Fork has been out for years and has more options too

It’s difficult to do when anything starting to become widely useful or good invariably gets fractured (forked) because different people need different features/capabilities.

It’s the double-edged sword of “open”.

I don’t point this out to criticize, just to acknowledge the challenge that exists, for which I don’t have an answer.

How much people are willing to pay for software is a bit of a reflection of the utility of it (of course, marketing is a part too, look at games).

I’ve seen some OSS apps with business sponsors who use the app in some way. One that comes to mind is Möbius, a Syncthing client on iOS. The business sponsor uses Syncthing as part of their business with their clients. Syncthing lacked a good iOS client, and apparently this business really needed one, so they developed one, and sell it on the App Store (with the approval of the ST devs).

Another issue is the difficulty of donating to projects. Each one is a different process, so I have to figure it out and keep track of who/what I’m donating to. Having 2 or 3 systems that could funnel donations to projects would be useful (those could be OSS projects too, with a minimal cost per transaction to subsidize the system maintenance and credit clearing house costs).

Not compromised.

They’ve been hypocrites for as long as I can remember.

So, you’re telling us how to use this?

Who died and made you God?

Define “communicate”.

With who?

Over what distance?

Also for what kind of scenario?

There’s probably some more things to define first, which will help guide a solution.

In a nutshell, over short/local distances (1/4 mile to perhaps 5 miles under ideal conditions, which never happen), GMRS can be used. It’s easy to learn. But it’s very range limited in general.

You could setup your own repeater on something high, and get miles of range then (I regularly pickup folks 10+ miles away because there’s a repeater half way between us on a tall building).

Long distance, HAM/HF. But that’s very complex, you really have to learn quite a bit to make that happen, and whoever’s on the other end would need similar skilset.

CB can do significant distance too.

With any radio, the higher the antenna, the farther the reach - that’s the primary driver.

Radio is a helluva rabbit hole, but I’d recommend starting with GMRS - radios are fairly inexpensive, you can get started for about $100 if you find a deal on a radio 2 pack (and not the cheap blister pack crap, something like TidRadio or better).

Cell phones are just radios that link to a repeater nearby - the cell tower. That tower then links to the phone network, typically via cable.

Blame your company for not configuring that shit, or choosing to let MS handle it all.

Personally, no company should be using Office 365 and external mail. Bring that shit back in house.

No Know (wtf autoincorrect?) why bringing it in house costs more? Because it’s worth it, for the control.

I looked at storj.io a while back, prices seemed good.