Readit NewsAre you these guys? One techbro recommended these to me and my cofounder and I've never looked back. Your boots are going places, literally!
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Expect ~$400, and it's easy to spend $600 without much effort.
That said, look at my comment above in this thread; they do really last 10 years or more, so the investment is well worth it.
That being said, I've noticed that a lot of clothes that I bought 10 years ago or so are of pretty high quality compared to today, (and no, they are not rich man's clothes). Some of them I actually have been wearing for more than 10 years now.
I'm sitting at a tech office right now wearing a pair of boots that my father made for me in 2015 - regardless, they're absolutely spotless and I'd wear them to a formal event without hesitation. Every 6 months or so when I'm by his store I shine them up and put in a fresh pair of leather laces. Every 3 or so years, he re-soles them when the soles eventually wear out and lose traction. Eventually they'll require a rebuild, but they've got probably another 5-10 years of daily wear in them before that. I've got a few more pairs I swap between every so often, like a pair with OD green canvas that looks nice with khakis, but these solid black ones are my daily wear.
While 10 years sounds like a good run for boots, my father has a pair at ~35 years old now that he still wears frequently. IIRC they've been through one or two rebuilds and few re-soles in that time.
Were these commodity sneakers, I'd be purchasing a new pair every few months. Even nice running or trail shoes only tend to last a few hundred miles in my experience, but I've put tens of thousands on these and will get ten thousand more easily. Re-soles and rebuilds aren't free, but they're less than a replacement and put years of lifetime back on the boot. They're also comfortable as hell and fit me like a glove.
So in short: yeah, rich men do wear the same pair of boots for 10 years, or even far longer.
The distinction is quite important because I imagine anything bigger than the tiniest of villages will be swamped with interference..
Also notably, LoRa does tremendously well with real-world noise and interference. Of course any receiver is susceptible to frontend overload, but in "normal" situations I never worry about flying 2.4GHz even in crowded cities, and have never had a failsafe even in some ridiculous situations. As someone above mentions, LTE on the 800MHz band with 900MHz control links are much more of a problem - I've had a failsafe for that exact reason at <200m total distance from takeoff.
I've set up Wireguard on a VPS once six years ago, and nothing needed adjustment since. It is as easy as you make it out to be, and depending on the use case the firewall rules can also be simple.
If I need to add a new device, which is probably a rarity for the average user, and once a year for me, it takes two minutes to edit two files and restart a service.
I can see reasons why one would want to use Tailscale, especially in an organization. But just uncritically recommending it for home-lab like setups seems as harmful as pushing people to Cloudflare for everything.
Raw Wireguard is fine for a road warrior or site-to-site VPN setup as is common, but when you want multipoint peer-to-peer connections without routing through what might be a geographically distant point, magic DNS, etc, Tailscale really shines through.
If you're paranoid, enable https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock or run https://headscale.net/ on your own as a control server.