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Flipper One – we need your help

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Post by idle_zealot »

mixtureoftakes wrote: post #271
antirez wrote: post #236

This lacks the sharp idea the Zero had. I have the feeling that in order to do something different, and not an evolution, the result will be borderline useless: a portable ARM computer with Wifi / satellite connection / ... And, then? What I can do with it? The evolution that I could like is a Zero with more CPU power, SDR and LoRa. Then let's implement all the cool protocols that it is possible to implement.

So they made a phone?

More evidence of the Smartphonification theory. Much like how all life trends towards crab, or all software towards reading mail and including a bespoke Scheme implementation, I posit that all hardware eventually becomes a smartphone.

Examples: - the cellphone (obviously) - my TV - my refrigerator - my oven - music players - tablet computers - laptops (well on their way) - cash registers->PoS sales machines - handheld game consoles

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Post by nicman23 »

fsflover wrote: post #83
nicman23 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i mean i trust the flipper guys more

Librem 5 already exists and is my daily driver phone though.

i mean yea but it is not ideal in a phone context. i do not think i would be able to use it knowing its limitation. hell, even my pixel 10 with GOS is making me miss a snapdragon

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Post by arm32 »

antirez wrote: post #236

This lacks the sharp idea the Zero had. I have the feeling that in order to do something different, and not an evolution, the result will be borderline useless: a portable ARM computer with Wifi / satellite connection / ... And, then? What I can do with it? The evolution that I could like is a Zero with more CPU power, SDR and LoRa. Then let's implement all the cool protocols that it is possible to implement.

I wish they took the Zero, added the Linux, SDR and 5G and the fancy case upgrade. Leave the AI out. That'd be sweet.

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Post by rasz »

msiemens wrote: post #253
ctenb wrote: post #21

Most articles I click on in the HN homepage turn out to be written by AI, judging from the phrasing. I'm weirded out by the fact that people don't seem to find it important to write their own thoughts down. The writing in TFA is clearly supervised by a human, but still, the wording is not human at all.

> the wording is not human at all Or they are not a native speaker. I guess it's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't situation". Use a LLM to clean up your own prose? Bad. Post your unedited (or self-edited) prose? I guess it is "not human".

Adding emdashes and emotes is not a clean up.

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Post by iamtheworstdev »

semolino wrote: post #268
azalemeth wrote: post #5

This looks flippin' amazing, but also like the definition of project scope creep. I imagine it will be brilliant, unaffordable, surprisingly cheap, terrible and awesome (in both senses of the word) all at the same time. 3GPP really needs a light shining through it. I sincerely hope I work out a way of getting someone else to buy the thing for me. And the push towards all in-tree source is fantastic. Genuinely impress…

Could you clarify what you mean by saying it may be both unaffordable and surprisingly cheap? (Expensive but less than expensive than it could be? Expensive but of poor build quality?) Also why would you want/need someone else to purchase it for you? Because of your country's import laws, or reasons related to privacy/anonymity?

probably means - more expensive than any of us would spend on a "toy", but far cheaper than what an expert might on an industry standard version of this.

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

kesor wrote: post #140

Instead of re-inventing Linux distributions for FlipperOS on top of Debian. They should just choose to base it on NixOS which already has these "profiles" as a built-in feature called "Specializations" https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Specialisation

I daily drive nixos and I have no idea what specializations are and reading that wiki article didn't help. Am I just looking at a way to drop in chunks of predefined config?

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Post by xbar »

Flipper Zero is great. I would have built a Flipper 0.1 first, but I see why they are doing this.

Flipper One's hardware designs and constraints are very compelling. I would have preferred an additional physical switch to disable all emissions.

That said, if they can pull of the initial software stack it will be a strong platform for a broad set of use cases.

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Post by Joel_Mckay »

Deprogrammer9 wrote: post #263

What about LoRa (Long Range)? that would be perfect for the Flipper Zero! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa

LoRa is not an open physical layer protocol standard, but rather an interesting niche chip product from a small manufacturer.

Like all unicorn chip products, setting up a link in SDR is not officially supported without violating IP rights. =3

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Post by Fogest »

the_plus_one wrote: post #149
bonsai_spool wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The writing in TFA is clearly supervised by a human, but still, the wording is not human at all. I don't see the AI 'tells' in this article. What are you noticing? They use a lot of em-dashes but they use them in a very human way.

In my experience, the bulleted list with emojis is usually a pretty strong tell (the one in the article just after "We call these parts sub-projects"). LLMs (maybe just ChatGPT) love doing that.

Yeah the emoji lists seem to be a ChatGPT specialty for some reason. Their model LOVES emoji's in their writing. Which must be something they use a system prompt to instruct. Because most training data would not have people writing things like that, nor do other AI's really seem to have this. When you see the long dashes and emoji lists you can tell right away ChatGPT wrote it. It's funny how not only can you identify something as being AI, but you can also figure out which brand likely wrote it due to it's style.
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