Notices by minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)

@lanodan @josch well it *is* kinda rugged.

setting up two dedicated MNT Desktop Reform workstations in the company for coworkers. these have RK3588 cpus and will provide access to internal documentation and "factory" tooling. it's all coming together, just the cable management is still too messy ^^

@josch yeah, but no spilling please :D

@whitequark if you move a resistor network to another pad then yes

someone wants a stack of semi/defective imx8mq modules before we throw them out? (boundary devices nitrogen 8m, 4gb ram, don't remember how much emmc).

ampere computer in the house :D unfortunately need to take care of more important things first

otoh it would be nice if someone made a comfy in kernel serial REPL for the "bringup sketching" or debugging phase of development, where you can interactively run and modify kernel driver functions in scripts etc, with integrated machine monitor that also has all clocks, regulators etc. a bit like remote gdb but better (iirc remote kernel gdb is somewhat broken on arm64)

i might have NIH tendencies in software partly because when writing software the speed of making progress and getting results and the wealth of resources can be addictingly pleasant versus with badly documented hardware and linux kernel compile-reboot-sigh loops it's sometimes just toiling for hours and days on a single problem like "the whole system just locks up" or "the display just stays off"

ok, the new top back plate for the MNT Pocket Reform is finally in our shop at cost. it improves Wi-Fi reception because the outer zones are not covered with copper anymore (design error in the original). https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform-back-plate

we don't have a cheap way to ship these outside of germany/the EU. this is why i would ask you to organize a group buy at https://community.mnt.re if you want to save on shipping to e.g. the US.

all current pocket shipments already include this new plate.

TIL avery brooks (ds9) did a commercial for ibm back in the day touting linux https://youtu.be/UQAa_WKJxPs

funny that gnome-shell uses more cpu than qemu here

(just testing some qemu-kvm)

> Complete the setup as usual. To avoid using a Microsoft account, use Shift-F10 and run oobe\bypassnro

those were the days?!

extremely low-fi and thicc protoype to test some dimensions and weight (crafted with cardboard and tape by @theawesomerandomness around pocket reform electronics)

lets say someone made an OSHW touch device running linux that's intended to fit in your pant/dress/jacket/handbag pocket. what would be the maximum display size (diagonal, inches) you would tolerate? bonus if you like rabbitholes like this: maximum thickness and weight?

@gkrnours has vesa mount!

(opinions welcome!)

@qwazix could be another option but has bad heatsinking properties, so would require some other heatsink. with the current solution, this large alu plate is a cheap and effective way for cooling

classic reform motherboard 3.0 is around 140 eur BOM (at 100x batch) with all its expensive components. rcore (rk3588 module) is also quite costly at low qty. complete computer BOM would be around 450 EUR for 16GB and 550 EUR for 32GB (remember this is all without labor and package). sale price would end up ~ 710 EUR for 16GB and 870 EUR for 32 GB machine incl vat.