It’s Initrode now.

And, yeah, when I tell people I work in tech the response is either “cool” or questions about what we do and how we do it, from the more geeky people. But I also don’t work for a company that “shortens the kill chain” or “connects the supply chain to the kill chain”

EDIT : I want to be very clear that “Connecting the Supply Chain to the Kill Chain” is the real actual title of one of their advertising docs on their official website linked above.

I am the CEO of the fediverse but I’m struggling. If you send $7 to my account, I will reimburse you $2m when we succeed. My scam coin wallet address is “0”, please reply quickly… I can not hold long

If it helps for comparison, my esp32 got about 2.5 days on a 2,000mAh battery. My nrf52 gets about 10 days on the same battery.

Edit: that was with no charging at all, just “plug it in and see how long it lasts”

I breezed through the other replies and didn’t see anyone asking why you want wifi.

If you’re going to hang a node somewhere and have it solar powered, the nRF52 will give you waaaaaaaaay longer life and easier (solar) recharging. I’ve got nodes that have been out (unmaintained) for three or four years now, running on a 2,000mAh battery and 2x crappy 60mA@5v solar cells, and they’ve never dropped out as far as I can tell… even in deep winter when you shouldn’t be charging lithium-ion battery packs in sub freezing temps : )

I’m probably dumb, but I don’t see why anyone wants wifi from a LoRa node when all it does is rob power/longevity without adding any benefit that I can think of.

Is there any difference in the hardware between Meshtastic and Meshcore? I didn’t think there was… but I haven’t been keeping a close eye on it.

I have a lot of RAK4631 based builds and I flashed a few from Meshtastic to Meshcore, said “meh”, then flashed back to Meshtastic. So … I assume no hardware difference. I think it’s mostly just the software/routing protocol that is different (which is why I stuck with Meshtastic).

EDIT: Also tried RNode (Reticulum) on the same hardware which was… interesting, but a silly protocol to have on a solely LoRa device.

You’re telling me I have to climb on top of that building at night, surreptitiously, AGAIN?

Since you covered the important bits, I’d add :

ESP32 if you want WiFi but short battery life, nRF52 if you want long battery life but no WiFi.

I can’t even fathom that level of frustration. At least I can only muck up a part or maybe an engine… not a little human : /

Sorry bud, and good luck.

Because it was generated by a llm.

I did a search for the torque spec on a castle nut last week and the second result was for a nut (as in, food nuts that you eat) website and the llm had gone all in on nuts and added a page about castle nuts. It even generated an image of a castle for the top because… castle nut.

It proceeded to provide vague instructions and a torque recommendation of 2x the actual spec.

Then there was the other one about a small 4 stroke engine where it stated “other sites will say you don’t need to mix oil with gas but you absolutely must!” (You don’t and shouldn’t) … I wonder how many people have fucked up their shit by trusting llm garbage without knowing better.

The Torment Nexus? But it sounded so cool in that classic sci fi novel “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus”

If the snake was poisonous he shouldn’t have eaten it.

/overly pedantic differentiation of poisonous vs venomous

Timely.

I just organized my big box o’ cables last weekend. Of course, then yesterday I had to unpack the entire box because I needed one from the bottom but it’s still progress

Edit: I found my old serial 33.6 modem in there.

I’ve spent the last 9 months coming in behind these “look what I did! AI!” projects and fixing them. One was turned over to a coworker as a “here I did all this work for you” … Wouldn’t even start because it tried to bind to the same TCP port three times in the init, for some reason.

It’s getting a little better, but I still mostly unfuck shit that people LLMd and then (they) walked away to much fanfare at their “expertise” to do it again.

It’s a tool, not a replacement for thought.

Same. Local RAID 1 with rotating external drives where one is always offsite, then B2 as a last ditch “just in case” for my most important data. I forget how much data I have in B2 but it’s about $2/month.

For me? Mostly that she was a caring, compassionate, human and she spearheaded a foundation to give free books to kids. https://imaginationlibrary.com/

I don’t particularly like her music either but I’ve never heard a bad thing about her… But lots of good she did. Which is saying something and I personally find most “famous” people to be shit bags.

Edit : I also love her quote “it costs a lot of money to look this cheap”

How do you endure? I don’t know if I could do that…

You must be exceedingly strong with a fortitude to rival mountains.

I use Debian BTW. ; )

But you’re right, when did it shift from gentoo to arch?

Plus you get to gloat and feel superior.

Semi related : Family occasionally still asks me to fix their computers and my stock response is “I haven’t used or even seen windows in about 20 years so I won’t be much help… But I can install Linux for you?” ; D

I did have two take me up on it. Haven’t heard of a single problem - they mostly just need a browser anyway.

But you have to post it when you record it… Please.

Beat me to it. My favorite quote that I use all the time.