

Nice.
Other actions are possible with watchdog timers, especially with hypervisors. They can invoke a script or use an agent to kill a misbehaving process.
Ultimately, the best solution is not to need the timers at all, so finding the culprit within the client is ideal, though not always possible.
VMs hanging on memory often have incorrect caching policies, you may want to investigate that.

Meshtastic can work in this scenario, but with default GPS broadcast turned on is a terrible idea if the goal is communicating outside state observation.