@lori I am waiting for the time when people with a wire cutter and a soldering iron will make good money by lobotomizing "smart" devices. I'll be there, offering my services (I am great at removing stuff ...). It will be a great preparation for the time when we will all scavenge the ruins for items to re-use. After the fall, I mean.
@glitzersachen @lori I watched a video last night from a guy "repairing" his IoT outdoor grill that wasn't syncing with his web-app by taking a second grill's working control board and swapping the firmware. Presto, his grill now queries AWS every 20 seconds like it was designed to.
One, what the eff. And two, you could have extracted two perfectly functional ESP32's *and* made your grill work by ripping all that junk out instead.
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Life is not a pony farm. *Wanting* to be online is quite different thing from *getting* to be online.
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in reply to Glitzersachen • • •@glitzersachen @lori I watched a video last night from a guy "repairing" his IoT outdoor grill that wasn't syncing with his web-app by taking a second grill's working control board and swapping the firmware. Presto, his grill now queries AWS every 20 seconds like it was designed to.
One, what the eff. And two, you could have extracted two perfectly functional ESP32's *and* made your grill work by ripping all that junk out instead.
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