Comment on LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System

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• yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it is for digital preppers.

  IF starlink,3/4/5g,home wifi and everything else…THEN LoRa is your toy.

  other than that it might be for the bizarre idea of wizards go hiking or do outside activity. so thats why they produced to few…the story of nerds being outdoors was too unrealistic and prepper incels are just poor.

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  • greybeard@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.

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    • yournamehere@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      dont get me wrong, i love lorawan. the device is just super niche and the real life usecase does not really exist or justify creating more ewaste. in desaster regions people are either poor and wont own the device or local phone company can set up mobil towers quickly and it wont matter.

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      • mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can also get a cheap truck radio and it will have tremendously more range than meshtastic....most of the time. In a real life death situation, it would also be more reliable.

        Don't get me wrong I love meshtastic, but it's more for hobbies.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The issue with Starlink is power consumption. You will have to run your generator frequently to keep the batteries charged up.

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  • TK420@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    OooOoOo, I’m a hiking/backpacking wizard! Let me tell you, I’ve been waiting for warmer weather to haul radio equipment to mountain peaks to play with. Meshtastic and NOAA sats to be specific.

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    • liquefy4931@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is my hobby, too!

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