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.

To get ahead of the comments on why I didn’t use …

Bonus points for no jailbreak required : D I didn’t even realize there was a jailbreak for it (or what benefits there are to jailbreaking it… I should do some research but I haven’t found anything I couldn’t do with the stock firmware and it sounds like you generally came to the same conclusion).

Mine is using the stock firmware, wifi off unless using Overdrive, but I plug it into my computer to charge and load it with books. It just shows up as a mass storage device like a USB thumb drive and you can copy/paste books onto it (or use Calibre). After disconnecting it will scan for new/changed files and auto-import any recognized formats into the reader application.

Also saying Kobo. I’ve got the Kobo Libra Colour and love it.

It’s the only ereader I’ve ever owned but I used the spouse’s Nook and Kindle a couple of times in the past and the Kobo kills it. Granted, we’re talking about a nearly new release of the Kobo vs a 5+ year old Kindle so it’s not a fair comparison.

Because of eInk and auto-sleep, the battery lasts me well over a month of casual reading (~30min before bed) with the occasional multi hour weekend session. Backlight is present and is totally readable in dark areas at <10% brightness; 100% brightness is like a supernova in your face. While the Libra Colour is not specifically a note-taking tablet like a reMarkable, it does just fine for quick notes/todo lists/etc but I did splurge on the ($60) stylus. There’s a “notes” application that comes pre-installed.
eBook support for writing in margins (or over text), underline/circling, highlighting, etc is really nice but occasionally the highlight is flakey when trying to highlight the end of a paragraph. That seems to have been specific to certain epubs rather than an “always” thing, but it happens in around 20% of epubs I’ve used.

EDIT: Notes and highlights you do in an epub (and presumably other formats) are exportable to your PC via Calibre (“Annotations”). I love this because I like to highlight things I find interesting, particularly good quotes, and this gives me an easy way extract them while retaining a reference to which book it was and where exactly in the book it was. Example attached.

Not that I would know from experience, but I hear there are Calibre plugins that will allow a user to pull the DRM’d book (downloaded via Overdrive) to a computer and remove the DRM.

I’ve read that it’s a polite thing to do because you’re able to return borrowed books much more quickly so other users can check them out.

I just set up a new home lab server and my first instinct was the latest Debian.

… Seemed fine to me.

Yeah, and it varies by station. I push all the buttons. Some times one works, some times not.

Who was it that said that the mark of a good leader is that everyone working under them is smarter than the leader?

By that metric, the C level are the dumbest people in a company.

At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.

… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”

Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

1901-01-01? Me too!

Good to meet you birthday buddy

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

… I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.