[sehugg]

I tried to compile something and the Pi ran out of memory

I think your beef is not with Meshtastic, but with the distro/compiler, and I am going to bet you're compiling C++ with clang.

[alnwlsn]

I don't know man, I was just trying to follow the official build instructions. If that's not Meshtastic I don't know what is.

The (lack of) reliability in the network is the main issue with it though, but that's already been covered elsewhere in this thread.