Comment by 🐙 norayr
Re: "Raspberry PI, where all the YGGverse services were hosted,…"
@jsreed5
with as little power and bandwidth as is absolutely necessary.
given that python is one of the worst in terms of power consumption, weird choice to use it for such a project.
though tls or not tls, python or not python, coming back to the topic, won't matter much, i think.
rpi needs lots of energy. linux devices need lots of energy.
and you cant stay online with services that create an overlay network over internet without internet.
so here meshtastic wins in both ways: it is less energy hungry so meshtastic devices on esp32 can be powered 24/7 with a solar panel and a battery. and meshtastic does not rely on existing internet infrastructure.
and it still encrypts.
Jan 24 · 3 months ago
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my homelabber friend modded a ups and connected 2 car batteries to it. his server is a powerful x86_64 computer.
it works on such modded ups for more than 5 hours.
the isp we use, if you also power their device that converts optics to ethernet, you have connection even if no electricity in the building.
if it was an rpi, it would work with such setup for maybe more than 24 hours.
my not modded ups runs my amd64 server for about an hour. i think it would run rpi for at least a day.
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Raspberry PI, where all the YGGverse services were hosted, has failed due to constant power outages in Ukraine. The services are currently unavailable. At the very least, the elusive virus that lived there was burned alongside the hardware. And as a conclusion to this event, P2P solutions are definitely not useful in extreme conditions, as they require a lot of energy from power batteries. In contrast, primitive technologies such as classic client-server sockets without TLS encryption could...