Acorn rule

zarkanian@sh.itjust.works to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 198 points –

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This is why you should support your local squirrel population.

Little buddies have been waging a war against this for a long time for us. We need to give back.

Since it only has a receiver and not a transmitter, it's probably completely useless

No, it just goes to its extraction point! ...somehow.

When eaten by squirrels the mind control protocol is activated.

There's no way, without violating the laws of physics, can you fit any kind of 2.4Ghz modem into something as small as an acorn.

You can with a sub-wavelength antenna like a nintendo joycon has, it's less than 10mm in X and Y axes. It will just have terrible reception, like a nintendo joycon has.

Also it could be a higher frequency which would allow a smaller antenna.

Wait till you hear what ARM originally stood for

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Acorn RISC Machine :::

Ironically, microcontrollers with wireless small enough to fit in an acorn are likely to be ESP32-based, which doesn't use an ARM CPU.

I expected Saddam Hussein to hide inside.

But they won't even disclose that ACORN stands for Asynchronous Connector for Optical Relay Network!? Sounds like they were bought out by Big Oak...