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LILYGO's T-Deck Pro Is a LoRa- and 4G-Capable Smartphone-Like All-In-One ePaper Dev System (www.hackster.io)
submitted 3 months ago by schizoidman@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately it's sold out. In fact it was only available for a very small amount of time.

[–] AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Aww dang. I was holding off on getting a T-Deck until Mestastic 2.6 dropped, and would've really preferred an E-Ink version.

[–] mac@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

How long does it normally take them to restock?

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have absolutely no idea what I'd do with this but I want one.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee -1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

it is for digital preppers.

IF starlink,3/4/5g,home wifi and everything else is dead...THEN LoRa is your toy.

other than that it might be for the bizarre idea of wizards go hiking or do outside activity. so thats why they produced to few...the story of nerds being outdoors was too unrealistic and prepper incels are just poor.

[–] greybeard@lemmy.one 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Disasters do happen. Hurricanes are a big problem that often take out everything you mentioned except for starlink. And starlink has several problems, being owned by a Nazi is certainly one of them.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

dont get me wrong, i love lorawan. the device is just super niche and the real life usecase does not really exist or justify creating more ewaste. in desaster regions people are either poor and wont own the device or local phone company can set up mobil towers quickly and it wont matter.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago

You can also get a cheap truck radio and it will have tremendously more range than meshtastic....most of the time. In a real life death situation, it would also be more reliable.

Don't get me wrong I love meshtastic, but it's more for hobbies.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Run meshtastic on it

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude that is so sick...

Someone please make this into a functioning phone...

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Minimal has something similar, but it's unfortunately huge.

https://minimalcompany.com/

I like that it runs Android, I wish it was the size of this LILYGO device.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can it run Linux?

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My limited research says yes.