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Modern microcontrollers are insanely power efficient. An ESP32 in "light sleep" (which would be sufficient to serve timer routines) is said to consume <1 mA (at 3.3V), down to ~10 uA (microamps!) in "deep sleep".
In other words, 1 year in deep sleep is 315 ampere-seconds or less than 100 mAh.
Obviously it's irrelevant in this use case (where the goal is running a motor every wake-up cycle), but nowadays, as absurd as it looks, being power-constrained isn't necessarily a reason to not slap something on it that happens to also be able to do cryptography, connect to WiFi and make HTTPS requests.
Also, the random delay between the notifications.
For 2026, the No-Tiff-AIer extension is planned to also not bury you in slop.
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