Can someone explain why Flipper is making these decisions, or what advantages Flipper One has vs a Flipper Zero, RPI, and Linux machine?

The (EDIT2: maybe not) AI writing doesn’t help.

EDIT: looking more, it seems like the goal is to be a fun project like Playdate, except a Linux multi-tool instead of game console. Which is actually great, a step towards healing today’s corporatized tech culture. It’s unfortunate that the website non-explains this with AI and marketing speak.

EDIT2: I wrote too soon, AI is making me too cynical. My only remaining critique is that they explain the motive instead of just stating features and repeating “we’re doing something exciting and important [for reasons not really explained]”

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GuB-42 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> what advantages Flipper One has vs a Flipper Zero

They work at different layers, the Zero is physical, the One is network. There is almost no overlap between the two, so one doesn't have an advantage over the other.

> RPI

It has a battery, with attention given to power management, and is a complete unit, not just a board.

> Linux machine

You mean like a laptop? You can probably do all this on a Linux laptop PC, but the Flipper One is a smaller, more specialized device, with a firmware as open as the manufacturers will let them.

> My only remaining critique is that they explain the motive instead of just stating features

Go to this page for this: https://docs.flipper.net/one/general/features

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embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can't answer for the One, as I don't think even they themselves know what it'll end up being when done, but for the Zero, the biggest benefit have been the whole "one device = one large community = lots of firmware = lots of software" thing which gets a lot of benefits from one cohesive community around one device, I'm guessing the One would also get similar benefits with this.

As a current Zero user, I'd definitively get a One once available, just the addition of the PTT-button feels worth it to me, but almost all the other changes are good (IMO) as well, don't really see any drawbacks from the design they're aiming for now, besides the modularity will make things slightly more complicated, but also comes with a ton of obvious benefits.

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brookst an hour ago | parent [-]

Can you elaborate on how you use the zero? I got all excited, bought one, and it’s in a drawer. I’m way deep into coding, CNC machining, making of all sorts… but I just never incorporated it.

What am I missing? What do you use yours for?

	▲	cess11 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Mine is mostly just lying around but sometimes I find some use for it. This winter I bought some remote controlled electricity sockets that at first didn't seem to work so then I got the Flipper and started recording radio to figure out what was happening. Turns out the remote was some cheap hardware that at first broadcast promiscously and to the sockets entirely unintelligibly but with time and trying it stabilised. If I didn't have the Flipper or some other SDR device I'd probably have assumed it was bad and left it at the recycling station. If I'd lose the original remote I can use the recordings on the Flipper to either control the sockets or create a new remote. I've also looked into how the key fob to my car works and investigated tens of RFID and NFC cards, some of which I could probably have talked to with my phone but I like the format of the Flipper and it has very few distractions except Snake. When traveling I sometimes bring it up just to check out what radio stuff I can find and think about what devices might be sending.

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hdb2 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, you've acknowledged it in your edits, but just for others: the author commented above that he did not use AI, only translation tools.

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bonsai_spool 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> The AI writing doesn’t help.

Why do you say there is AI writing?

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speedgoose 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The writing style.

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chuckadams 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anything that anyone ever writes from now on has people coming out of the woodwork to accuse it of being AI-written. I too bemoan what the written word is coming to, but I am also so over the Slop Police, and wish they would just keep the conclusions of their sleuthing to themselves from now on.

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LastTrain 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I appreciate that some sites state explicitly whether AI was used in content creation. I wish it were the social norm.

	▲	simonklitj an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I think this is the optimal outcome of the “Slop Police.” Normalization of these acknowledgements. Transparency is good, like a journalist declaring whether they have vested interests.

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armchairhacker an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I usually give the benefit of the doubt, and regret accusing this article. It's the articles and comments that are obviously AI and score 100% on Pangram that I still feel should be called out, because the writing is hard to understand and the underlying message rarely makes good insight or discussion.

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armchairhacker 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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