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    Improve Volume Wheel Daemon (Bounty!)

    Yes... that solution would rock. Did I understand wrong that it was actually done with some funny looking (i.e. not a wheel) potentiometers and a couple of Atmel controllers in the Pandora? And we never had any problems with the nubs with the Pandora, the firmware for which was perfect from the...
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    Second image, that chip next to the text U605: is that a solderbridge between the first two pins (uppermost in picture)?
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    The Future of Pyra's CPU

    Well... at least they seem to have a plan: "Imagination is also creating a new open-source GPU driver to provide a complete, up-streamed open-source kernel and user-mode driver stack to support Vulkan® and OpenGL® ES within the Mesa framework. It will be openly developed with intermediate...
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    The Future of Pyra's CPU

    Do I recall completely wrong when I seem to recall that the Pandora was of loose relation to the Beagleboard? Well, now there's this: https://www.seeedstudio.com/blog/2021/01/13/meet-beaglev-the-first-affordable-risc-v-single-board-computer-designed-to-run-linux/ Unfortunately, it has a SOC...
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    The Future of Pyra's CPU

    Yesyesyesyesyes... But can it run Crysis? ;-)
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    Pandora nub problems

    In my experience there are a couple of things which cause the nubs to drift. Unfortunately the two main culprits are physical :-(. Resetting rarely helps much unless for some odd reason calibration gets skewed or you reset when the nub is not centered. Anyways, you should do the nub dance...
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    A DOS PC with: LAPC-I, AWE64Gold+expansion and an external Roland SC-155 module

    Hello Pandorians and Pyrates :). As the title says, I'm about to sell My Precious. The thread topic handles the audio side of things, which is obviously the main attraction here. The PC itself is basically "built for DOS". It is a collection of stuff I've scavenged from my old machines during...
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    Finalizing the PCBs

    How? Yes, I saw the mockup of one solution, but I don't think it solved the big issue: Extruding the spreader outside the plastic case would expose the mechanical strains of the outside world to the whole CPU-board and from there to the entire motherboard? Even mild pressure on anything...
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    Cross-compile on 64bit Linux machine?

    Interesting. I wonder if I could use this without too much frustration :-). So this script gets the compiler up and running... but then there's all the dependencies (stuff in /include and /lib). Any best practices/dirty tricks for accumulating these quickly?-) Simply copying them over from the...
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    The Keyboard Thread

    Gigantic means "AT"-type? I assume you are aware that the "PS/2"-version was simply a smaller version, so simply cut the wire and solder on a PS/2 connector? If it's a termina/mainframe keyboard you got, then it's a different deal :-).
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    The Keyboard Thread

    If I hadn't already taken care of my keyboard needs for the rest of my life I'd buy one of these in an instant! Assuming they work as advertised I'm sure they are going to be lifelong workhorses for some lucky people. The thing about keyboards is you don't "get" what a good keyboard is until you...
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    I'm out of ideas for news-titles

    A sad state of affairs to be sure. I tried enabling the acceleration on my PI3 twice, about half a year between attempts (therefore with a couple of different kernel releases) both times I got artefacts in the "regular" apt-getted Oolite and had to allocate a disproportionate amount of memory...
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    Open... and close... and open...

    No expert, but a tinkerer. When building a project years and years ago I hit this issue and solved it by ducttaping (well, of course you got to have that :) a straw to my AKG C1000 condenser microphone (I screwed away the "decorating top"). I padded the straw slightly (cloth) so noise only...
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    Is X86/X64 slowly dying?

    Nvidia SOC vs. Intel CPU: "The test measures deep learning inference throughput (images per second) using the GoogLeNet deep image recognition network." Biased is an understatement. I'm sure my 3 year old son could beat me in a weightlifting contest given a crane... in that case too, the only...
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    Is X86/X64 slowly dying?

    Each generation the "legacy" decode-portion in the CPU gets smaller relative to the size of all the other bits. The GPU bits (hmm... not literal bits... portions :) ) already make the decoder seem like a "meh" part of the design these days. And both power consumption and heat are pretty much...
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    Planet Computers : Gemini - Psion Returns

    Seems like :-(. I noticed they added more earlybirds. That, combined with the other vagueness here, does warrant some feel for alarm... Their responses to comments on Linux support have been unconvincing to say the least and downright against historical evidence of, for example, the behaviour...
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    HMDs, experiences anyone?

    Yep... Factoring in the cost of a new phone that's not so cheap. And even if my years old Windows Phone had a bigger display and reasonably quick innards, I would have to seriously invest time into learning to code for it (which I, after some initial little "Hello worlds", never got around...
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    HMDs, experiences anyone?

    So, I'm considering getting one of these hippy toys. I want to resume where I left in the 90s (two lenses on a cardboard contraption in front of a 14" CRT with VGA resolution (i.e. 120x100 pixels/eye :-) from the book "Virtual Reality Creations"). Note that I don't intend to do gaming related...
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    Planet Computers : Gemini - Psion Returns

    No... This isn't as bad as PGS, I think the goals for this are realistic. This thing is far less a Transformers-grade scifi movie prop than the PGS. Simply not being Intel based goes a long way: phones already exist which use the MediaTek SOC... now show me the _phones_ with top grade Atoms in...
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    Planet Computers : Gemini - Psion Returns

    Do they need to? The SOC is obviously well tuned for battery saving (lots of different kinds of cores for different uses). Since this is not a gaming machine they could just think: let it clock down if it needs to. Or rather: If it ever needs to clock up, the juice is there. It's different for...
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