Notices by Lucie / minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)

woops i used the "mini gender changer" and then everything was different

nice, amiga 2000 has a built-in stand for the mnt pocket reform

working with daniel was an absolute joy, he's a rare software engineer that is 100% reliable, excellent communicator and can deliver deep technical solutions on the whole spectrum from web applications (incl. UI) to embedded/kernel drivers. highly recommended, hire him!

https://chaos.social/@ailurux/116792506036949207

OK, the MNT Quasar 6490 Processor Module is here, check it out! https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-quasar-6490-processor-module

Thanks to @LinaroLtd and especially @cas for working on this with me, and @nlnet (through NGI0 Core) for helping us fund this most complex module yet! And thanks to @holo_memory for preparing the launch.

now that the GPU is stable, this system is so much fun aaaah... only i2s audio support is missing, which is a whole other can of worms on qcom. the system is an MNT Reform Next with QCS8550 processor. i wish it was easy and affordable to procure at the moment and i could just ship it. the reality is i don't even know the current price and lead time as it constantly fluctuates, and we have to ship a ton of other stuff first. but if we make to the other end one day, it'll be really good

a quick suspend/resume demo with the MNT Quasar 6490 Pocket Reform

many RCOREs in the house!

exciting: first 10 production mainboards for MNT Reform Next came in!

@cwebber yay, thank you!

MNT Reform made it to the orange website somehow and some people are shitting on it saying it's ewaste. i guess the ability to upgrade it forever still doesn't get through to everyone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47834689

@cwebber @jfred @dthompson big aw

do you make music on Linux, and what's your favorite software to work with? and what do you miss the most from Linux music/audio software that exists on other platforms?

but wait... does that mean MNT Pocket Reform can have 3 displays now (1 DP, 1 HDMI, 1 internal)? yes, yes it can!

hell yeah, got displayport alt mode over usb-c working on rk3588 pocket reform with mainboard 2.0!

in the end it was a DP lane polarity issue: USB3 allows lane polarity swap for better PCB routing, but DP doesn't. tricky when you need to reuse the same lanes for both.

MNT Station prelaunch page is finally online at @crowdsupply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mnt-station

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5x production tests of Pocket Reform mainboard 2.0 came in (board on the right). can you spot all the differences to 1.0 (on the left)?

"programming as theory building", peter naur, 1985

working prototype of MNT Reform Next with MNT Quasar 8550 processor module (based on Qualcomm QCS8550). speedy!

mnt pocket reform mainboard 2.0 fully routed, silkscreen cleanup time (and more checks tomorrow)

unexpectedly also got blender 5.0 with vulkan backend mostly working on rk3588 mnt pocket reform (custom build from git with very light patching, with current mesa compiled from git)