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Still can use all other fancy technologies as long you are not hiding data: Signing, Hashing, etc.

I tested it With Gemini 2.5 Flash. Works great.

I think there are two interesting ways:

1. Either go for the Gowin FPGAs from China. You can get good boards for cheap from Ali.

2. There are FPGAs that now have a FOSS chain. They are very interesting too.

I've tested Deezer for half a year. The software quality was horrible.

Had a lot of crashes, it often took many many seconds to change between the songs and often getting stuck, the buffering algorithm was nuts and eating a lot of bandwidth.

Everything on a standard Pixel. Full 5G coverage was available.

Alternatives?

Most likely it's not a super robust transmission mode like LoRa (that works down to -145dBm). Having a well designed antenna with a good pattern help a lot then.

ESP32 never was good for any powersaving applications.

Tenda has good support among OpenWRT.

Lots of these machines are dynamically created and provisioned depending on load factors nowadays.

The days of manually setting up servers in hyperscaling-environments are long long gone.

Example: Your GitLab CICD needs Runners. They are dynamically requested "somewhere in our cloud somwhere in the world" and then spun up and configures fully automatically. No human touches this stuff anymore.

Our freaky network admins rolled it out in our global corpo.

Was fun seeing IPv6 running for a few days without problems.

Ionos (VPS XS+)

1 Core with 512MB RAM combined with Wireguard easily shuffles a few GBit/s.

For me it's a Intel n100 box with Proxmox. Auto Updates (without auto reboot) fully activated). It just works.

For accessing my home network I've rented a 1€-VPS that acts as a Wireguard connection hub.

Maybe he could offer this "as a service" using LoRaWAN and a cheap Mikrotik basestation? As a backend Chirpstack can be used.

Not for 2400MHz LoRa.

For 433/868/915 they are great.

lol. 10.000km with a few bits of fixed-structure payload you mean.

Encoding basics

I'm currently thinkering of building a balloon with a 2.4GHz LoRa transmitter (SX128x) and a low-power STM32U microcontroller.

Why?

- You can repurpose 2.4GHz Wifi gear opening many doors

- You can easily include volunteers dumping data from HF into a IP sink for telemetry. TTGO offers boards with 2.4GHz LoRa.

- Theoretically you still can add a "low rate" 868MHz/433MHz and a "high rate" 2.4GHz for transmitting pictures and other stuff more quickly.

- BOM friendly. As the balloon might get lost you have to plan a bit for costs.