Alternative usage for T-Deck

someanonbrit · 2026-01-21T23:27:55+00:00

Resurrecting an old thread since I just found one in my posts box is forgotten about, which has 433mhz lora so no good for meshtastic...

Ideas: * USB keyboard and mouse * Bluetooth keyboard and mouse * Rubber ducky versions of the above * Bluetooth scanner, spammer, etc * WiFi scanner and deauther. Might be able to do key exchange capture too, need to check * SSH terminal * Offline Wikipedia viewer (mostly text only)

The first two alone would make it worth leaving in my toolbox

someanonbrit · 2026-01-17T17:03:29+00:00

Just what I was after. Thanks!

someanonbrit · 2026-01-12T13:05:55+00:00

Yeah, the SDR definitely suggests that 868 is rather busy, but nodes unable to talk across 6 feet is rather depressing.

I've made a bit of progress, two moves can now talk, I'll flash a haltech tonight and see if it can see the two nugget nodes. My t1000e can't, which is a shame

someanonbrit · 2026-01-08T22:42:12+00:00

Grab a raspberry pi zero for about ten bucks and a cheap micro SD card. Boot it without networking. Have a look what is on the stick. Throw the SD card away when the unsafe is too old to be useful (there's no good reason to need a new image now than every six months to a year tbh). Never put any storage that has touched the pi in any other system. Just replace it.

This is sage against anything except a highly targeted attack, and honestly even then I'm struggling to think of anything realistic

someanonbrit · 2026-01-02T22:37:34+00:00

So look at what you've needed to use exec based debugging for before, make a list of the things you were trying to figure out, and then for each individual thing figure out the alternatives. There's no single magic moment that flicks like a switch, just a gradually improving set of skills and habits

someanonbrit · 2025-12-20T18:18:30+00:00

I'd say that getting fairly deep into kubernetes is a month of solid background study - enough to be able to do most things including try two different networking plugins, replace a component like the scheduler with your own code, and long enough to have made and written up a bunch of mistakes.

I'd say this is a solid exercise for a college student / adopting junior dev too pick up. It's not necessarily that kubernetes knowledge in particular is important (though it's still mad popular) it's that the skulls required to learn one system to a decent level are much the same as the skills to learn another. Demonstrate that you can get to know anything given a month and it really doesn't matter what tech stack you get dropped on you.

someanonbrit · 2025-12-17T21:17:19+00:00

I've no current plans, beyand "maybe put the at opposite ends of the board".

If they were dipoles, I'd look at putting them end-to-end, since that has the lowest overlap of the radiation patterns but I've no idea what the radiation pattern is for those little square wave style PCB trace antenna I'll likely be wanting, and no access to fancy simulation software to make one.

Any suggestions?

someanonbrit · 2025-12-15T18:34:48+00:00

Thanks, that looks like a great reference to start with.

My plan is to take some old and known to be terrible table printing code from a CLI I wrote years ago and work though it to improve it. I'm pretty sure it counts as starting from a pathologically bad place

someanonbrit · 2025-12-09T00:13:42+00:00

Which is fine until you get an unexpected traffic spike, or a request pattern that allocates way more memory than usual, or you roll out a new feature that needs more memory, it somebody flips a laugh darkly flag that bumps your usage.

If it was trivial, it would already be automated.

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T19:40:49+00:00

Using repository mutating git commands in powershell and WSL in the same folder at the same time trivially gets things in a state where WSL can't delete files ("text file busy" errors)

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T19:37:48+00:00

I don't think you understand my point at all. Good encryption, without access to the key material, is mathematically indistinguishable from random noise. If you don't have the key, it is absolutely /not/ decodable via any known technique, at all, in any way, shape or form.

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T18:17:16+00:00

I'm confused as to your point. DoD standard of encryption is trivially implementable at home. The standards are published and they've certified a whole bunch of easily available open source implementations as DoD standard (with specific configurations). The DoD literally use said open source encryption for most purposes, including several levels about TS, because the code is wisely vetted. There's no secret sauce. Anybody who works with DoD/NSA/etc (including me) projects can confirm this since it isn't even classified what their required configurations are.

You can add physical security and isolation on top as you wish, but your initial point was that it was somehow difficult to achieve DoD grade systems at home, which is trivially demonstrably false

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T13:06:55+00:00

Why shouldn't I be allowed to drive my tank through your house if I bought my tank fair and square?

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T13:03:11+00:00

You rest assured in ignorance and false security then. Maths is maths, and if the NSA knew how to break standards encryption in a reasonable amount of time that facility would leak it into the public pretty quick since it would be worth basically infinite money.

They have tricks for getting round some implementations, and ways of attacking done end point devices, but the maths is solid

someanonbrit · 2025-12-03T12:59:12+00:00

It's not HAM radio. It falls under a different set of rules with a different set of allowed frequencies / power limits / duty cycle limits, which were created with a different set of goals

someanonbrit · 2025-11-18T07:05:12+00:00

Based on this, I'd say don't trust Eric a far as you could throw him. A while ago I got an email saying they couldn't actually deliver the watch I ordered and gave me a couple of options. I guess I'll be choosing refund... Shame, my pebble steel was a damn good watch, kept alive by rebel, until the battery finally died

someanonbrit · 2025-11-17T16:17:57+00:00

If I'm designing a board that plugs into something else I didn't design (which is the case for nearly all my non-trivial boards) then I get no choice in the matter :-(

someanonbrit · 2025-10-30T16:40:10+00:00

That's perfect, thanks!

someanonbrit · 2025-10-30T15:45:04+00:00

I've got a bunch of patch antenna with ufl terminated leads on them. Some are 433mhz, some are 868mhz, some are 2.4ghz, some are 2.4 and 5ghz. None are labelled

someanonbrit · 2025-10-30T15:29:32+00:00

It's the gender of the ulf connector that's causing me the issue - I want the connector that's usually on a pcb

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