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  • It’s pretty serendipitous, actually.
    The past month I’ve done a somewhat deep dive into LoRa for a project.
    I ultimately dismissed it due to the data rates, but for simple remote controls or for sensors - things that report a couple bytes - it seems awesome.
    I’m sure you can squeeze higher data rates out of it, but when I evaluated it I decided to go with a hardwired network link (I had to have stability, dropped info wasn’t an option. But the client had a strong preference for wireless)


  • WiFi uses BPSK/QPSK/OFDM/OFDMA modulation.
    LoRa uses CSS modulation.

    This is about hacking WiFi hardware to make WiFi modulated signal intelligible to a receiver expecting CSS modulation, and have the WiFi hardware demodulate a CSS signal.
    Thus making WiFi chips work with LoRa chips.

    LoRa doesn’t care about the carrier frequency.
    So the fact that it’s LoRa at 2.4ghz doesn’t matter. It’s still LoRa.

    I’m sure there will be a use for this at some point.
    Certainly useful for directly interfacing with LoRa devices from a laptop.
    I feel that anyone actually deploying LoRa IoT would be working at a lower level than “throw a laptop at it” kinda thing



  • The issue is with how aggressive Microsoft is about it.

    Trying to download chrome? “Hey, are you sure you don’t want to try Edge?”.
    Changing default browser? “Hey, are you sure you don’t want to try Edge?”.
    Windows update… “We’ve done you a solid, because we know you want to use Edge”.
    I’m sure at one point, it was a warning in the security center that you aren’t using Edge.
    Also Teams (in sure there are others) will open links in Edge, despite what default browser you have set.