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

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

Is that the nvidia AI game thing?

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 had one for six years… Still forget it’s there unless I’m backing into a really tight spot and happen to notice the screen when I’m looking side to side at the mirrors.

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.

The LLMs made search engines near useless by publishing mountains of slop - it’s almost all noise and no signal.

I frequently get top three search results for things like “how to sharpen an electric razor” where the article is 5 paragraphs of garbage and then “step one, remove razor, step two sharpen razor, step three enjoy your sharp razor!” … Then another 5 paragraphs of pointless slop.

Fucking infuriating.

Also good for distance running … Or just all running. The impacts absorb in soft tissue when the knee is bent instead of in the knee joint.

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?