#PinePhone can now be purchased year round, wireless charging and #LoRa cases coming in June, keyboard case coming this summer
@lupyuen great news. No idea what I'll use Lora for practically but I'm curious to play on it.
@ramob
I'm really curious about the #Pinephone #LoRa case, too. Personally I would *love* to see a #FOSS #privacy friendly alternative to #Tile / #Trackr. I mean, LoRa would have a much better range than Bluetooth, better security I suspect and meanwhile Tile and Trackr have become privacy nightmares demanding always on location tracking and having your phone be used by their network even when you're not using their app.
A LoRa beacon+speaker could be *so* much better!
@lupyuen
@federico3
I can't recall the exact spec/bandwidth right now but yes, I do remember it being really low. Still, it'll be interesting to see what folks do with this iteration of it and what happens in future editions. Even if an element just turns into IRC bridges to Lora haha
@Blort @lupyuen
@ramob
@Blort @lupyuen
according to this, IRC or pure-text IM will be unusable in any city due to time sharing with other users:
https://lora.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#data-rates
@federico3
Thanks for the source I'm going to try digging through that in a bit. I wonder if we'll see a resergience of message boards then or if even that would be too much. @Blort @lupyuen
