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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by ljm on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:28AM (#29702314)
There's probably a mindset of having to use IoT (or close enough) no matter how inappropriate the use-case is. Like how people try to find reasons to use a blockchain, or rewrite something in Rust, or host a kubernetes cluster.

A low-tech solution would be too boring or easy.

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Re:There's an ARM Cortex-M4 with Bluetooth inside a Covid te... by jffry on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:48AM (#29702473)
There are legitimate reasons for a test like this to exist, the linked author talks about this more a bit further into the same Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1475254812816019456
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