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  Yeah, I don’t trust any of the device batteries truthfully. This one has a little swelling because my stepson used it for a while and had the bright idea to leave it constantly plugged in. I will not be flying with it for sure and when I do travel it will not get packed where I can’t access it easily.

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  Turning an old Pixel 3a XL into a fully offline, battery-powered web server with postmarketOS & Lighttpd I had an old Google Pixel 3a XL sitting around and decided to see if it could handle running as a fully offline, self-contained web server. I flashed postmarketOS 26.06 (headless Alpine Linux base) to it and set up a portable media node that broadcasts its own Wi-Fi AP, serves static pages, and streams video over a captive portal - no cell data or upstream internet needed. Quick Hard...

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  https://github.com/feranick/gasket-driver is the best option for now. But you also need the same gcc version installed as what was used to compile the kernel.

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  I was working for a guy setting to 2.4Ghz WiFi links up to 10 miles from a tower. I was mainly running the office and doing network tech support with the odd pc repair job. He was working for a conglomerate about 5 hours away. He had an installer who would come through every couple weeks so I would have the equipment configured and ready to go for him, he would also grab stuff that was no longer in service and bring it back to the office. Anyway the installer quit and I had to drive 2 hours ea...

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  I'm using the HomeAssistant Blue. Amazing device you can no longer get but can build something similar. I'm slowly working on integrating HomeAssistant into an old house I'm fixing up while I live in it. I build many of my own sensors and controllers using ESP32'S and ESP8266's. They run on wifi and use a bit more power but I can build a single box that costs me about 30 bucks and will cover multiple zigbee devices so don't discount the use of wifi. The ESPHome Bluetooth...

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  My father would have to admit he didn't really care and make up for all the bs that happened because of it. My mother can rot in hell.