You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.
I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some file “” or something. Every VSCode update I feel like I have to turn off Copilot in some new way. And now apparently it’ll be added to Excel as well. Thankfully I don’t have to use anything from Microsoft after work hours.
Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.
I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screens. The same experience on the Ticketmaster website is awful.
In many cases the company might have a subsidiary in a lower cost of living location (India, Eastern Europe, etc). The company I work for has slowly been laying off software engineers, project managers, and technical support folks in the US, while simultaneously hiring their replacements in those LCOL areas. I get to see the cost rates for these folks, and it is pennies on the dollar :(
It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before/after the ISO message (with non-PCI data) to confer additional information outside of the payment transaction. Definitely speeds up time to market, but opens up a whole new array of failure modes to deal with.