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Hey #HiveMind,

Is there such a thing as a generic USB-Wireless bridge device?

My idea is that I like my #Wacom tablet, but it'd be cool if it was #wireless, even if that meant it'd have to be twice as thick.

Some kind of generic wireless bridge for #USB that just passed USB commands bidirectionally without changing anything would be really neat. Plug the dongle into the USB host, and the other side (with a battery) into the USB guest, and presto changeo, the wired device becomes a wireless one, and neither devices are the wiser.

Anyone seen anything like this? I'm guessing there might be a way to do it with a couple zigbee devices or something like that, but I've never messed with that.

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@teledyn @sebastian@mastodon.cc

The #whitehouse explanation for why they need #Starlink should be included in #teaching materials in #computer #networks, #infrastructure, #wifi -

as an example for how things DO NOT work,
and what DOES NOT make any sense.

Except of course the #design goal is something else than what you are communicating altogether.

#bullshit #gaslighting

LOL

"#WhiteHouse said the installation was an effort to increase internet availability at the complex. They said that some areas of the property could not get cell service and that the existing Wi-Fi infrastructure was overtaxed.

... the effort was “to improve #WiFi connectivity on the complex.”

It is less clear, however, that the #Starlink internet service will significantly expand #wireless internet capacity in buildings where fiber cables already provide access."

nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/poli

The New York Times · Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House ComplexBy Maggie Haberman