Solarbird 
cascadia's listening to meshcore all the way up in parksville and sechelt
the whole dang country's just silly with it
Miakoda 
@hellomiakoda Once I finally got it going, it seems to be pretty polished. MeshCore has taken over here; Meshtastic is more popular elsewhere but here it got swamped.
The MeshCore.io dev team seem to be tightly focused on Android, with als some interest in linux-based webapps, but webapping to me seems kind of counter to the point unless you're running it on the same machine you're using the app on, in which case it's going to be fine.
But from an ease-of-making-shit-work standpoint, an old Android tablet (or phone, no doubt) would be a good starting point if you don't start with a dedicated device.
@hellomiakoda
I spent three days failing to get the MeshCore.io app running on an older version (19H1) of Windows 10, then got it sideloaded and going in like 10 minutes on an abandoned Kindle Fire Android tablet. At least one dev tests all the way back to Android 8. The actual radio is a bluetooth-firmwared WisMesh Tag and it doesn't seem like a bad little toy at all. (I am told that they can brick if you drain the battery enough tho', so be careful of that.)
I spent three days failing to get the MeshCore.io app running on an older version (19H1) of Windows 10, then got it sideloaded and going in like 10 minutes on an abandoned Kindle Fire Android tablet. At least one dev tests all the way back to Android 8. The actual radio is a bluetooth-firmwared WisMesh Tag and it doesn't seem like a bad little toy at all. (I am told that they can brick if you drain the battery enough tho', so be careful of that.)