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  • If you need networking, go for the ESP32. There’s nothing easier or close that I know of, and incredibly cheap too. Downside is the power draw. If that is a concern and you really do want to run it off a coin cell for any prolonged time I’d say WiFi is out the window altogether, and I’d pick something efficient but more modern than an attiny, like any small arm cortex m0+ devboard or similar. If you want to experiment with low power radio, see what you can come up with with some lora transceivers.





  • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@lemmy.worldPebble Time 2 has screws
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    2 months ago

    That, or the watchmakers of old didn’t have to worry about wiring actuators, speakers, and heart rate monitors on the back plate. Or is that against nature and shouldn’t be done in the first place anyway?

    For what it’s worth, my F91W has Philips screws on the back plate exactly like this and I never had a problem, and I’ve taken it apart more than a few times (it’s a Sensor Watch!)












  • “Just” some highly specific VM settings, in the end. I don’t know much about that, and terms like qemu don’t mean anything to me so I followed blog posts until it worked. (This one and maybe this one, I think.) It’s possible that it is actually trivial.

    It’s been a while, but I can look up what I have when you need it. Feel free to ping me!

    Yes, it was exactly that: Once I got the NICs set up the way I wanted them it was a breeze and everything just works. And I really like that I made every part work myself, no magic. I learned a lot, and wouldn’t have had I relied on Proxmox fiddling with the right parts for me.


  • I was in a similar spot not too long ago, setting up a firewall and general network box. I was going to go with Proxmox but a fellow Lemmy guy strongly advocated for Incus on top of vanilla Debian. I was intrigued and ended up going for it. Learned a lot about networking with systemd (bridging, IP assignment and so on) for things I could have gotten for free in Proxmox (literally a few clicks), and had to fight Incus to work with a FreeBSD VM for Opnsense, but I love the setup now. Pure debian with a few Incus VMs and Docker inside of those as needed. So clean!