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    Adequate for note taking?

    I bought a Samsung NB 30 plus form ebay second hand (the 2GB RAM model) for 50 euros (including shipping from the UK), replaced the HDD with a 120Gig SSD, bought a new 9-cell battery for it for cheap as well. I setup a minimal arch install and used it without X11 as a challenge to myself for a...
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    Passed the certification!

    I have absolutely no problem with the software not being ready. As long as all the hardware is good, I'd like to have mine, so I can develop for it and maybe even help getting the software to a runnable state :)
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    Something has gone wrong.

    Wow... You had me honestly scared for a second. I knew that there was a risk of something failing or an issue creeping up that was missed until now. So my first thought was "Oh no, that means no Pyra for another year". My second thought was "Well, at least he's open about it." After actually...
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    Is there really a light at the end of the journey...?

    Look at the post that he linked: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/an-other-cpu-discussion-rockchip-rk3399-sounds-good.83004/page-5#post-1439447 It has the complete image.
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    Is there really a light at the end of the journey...?

    Oh damn it... :( I mean, don't get me wrong. I am very happy about the progress that has been made so far and I am still looking forward to the Pyra. I still had hope that I could take it with me on a month long train-journey around Europe in August until now. (I'd have plenty of time to setup...
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    An update of the waiting game

    T.T.T. Put up in a place where it's easy to see the cryptic admonishment T.T.T. When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time. We should have this in the forum somewhere... :)
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    The plausibility of an E-Ink Display

    @Grench Sadly, those displays don't speak VT220 or anything of the sort. I've looked at > 20 datasheets of different eInk displays and almost all of thrm have one chip that speaks SPI or I2C and one chip that controls the pixels on the screen. So when you write to it, the first chip translates...
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    Case closed?

    The smallest, but runnable and accurate two months program I could come up with :D public class TwoMonths implements Runnable { public static void main(String[] args) {new TwoMonths().run();} public void run() { java.util.Calendar c = java.util.Calendar.getInstance()...
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    Silence!

    Oh wow! I did not expect this progress. This means there might be a chance that I can take my Pyra on my journey throughout Europe in the summer :) That would be so awesome <3
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    Important color changes

    Have you considered a selective script blocker? In the old Firefox I used NoScript and now I'm using uMatrix and it keeps all the nasty scripts out while I can still selectively enable scripts from the main website, if I trust it. There is a setting to block everything by default and only allow...
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    Important color changes

    I don't see the advantage of that over reducing the spoiled content to one line of text. Or is it just a side-effect of your current setup, that isn't annoying enough to do something about it? EDIT: Also I'm news-hungry! I think I'm gonna turn into one of these zombies soon...
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    Finalizing the PCBs

    As if in reply to my earlier message, my phone's external speaker died. I think I jinxed it.
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    Finalizing the PCBs

    About a year ago, I was thinking of buying the Pyra as an awesome phone. I didn't think it would take this long to release, but that got me to try and keep my current phone alive a little bit longer. By now I have gone through multiple custom ROM's, I have a pretty good idea what settings to...
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    Shortest newspost ever... for now!

    Don't you dare! :) 13 is my lucky number! It can't be that bad for you either. This will go fine.. :) I'm still not sure whether to buy just the two or maybe even a third case that I can take apart and apply mods to, like my idea for a small e-ink-display on the backside of the lid. And I...
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    Let's move the moulds!

    I have the same issue with Firefox on my Laptop and found the addon Grab and Drag a few months ago, which works quite well after changing some settings. So while it does not work natively, there are solutions for that.
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    Whatsapp on Pyra?

    A sad truth. However, I believe that there are other WhatsApp clients out there, that already mimic the behavior of the Android app pretty well. Sadly Facebook is known for actively searching for them and removing them (I don't know if they are still doing that, but I can guess).
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    Analyzing 4GB RAM

    Are you also using this forum over IRC? ;)
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    Analyzing 4GB RAM

    I would actually like to switch to a 2GB model, regardless if it's needed or not for the simple reason that I could get my Pyra in the first batch and because of the outlook of a lower power consumption, since I want my Pyra to be on 24/7 as a personal assistant/console to my servers. I also...
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    I'm out of ideas for news-titles

    I'm gonna throw in my 2 cents now as well. I'm definitely not a novice linux user any more and I have a few tasks that are bound to take up more than 2GB of RAM, but I could also very well outsource these tasks to my laptop. What I mainly want to do with the Pyra is to have a stable and long...
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    What programming language should I use

    If you want to just play around with code, then I would also recommend you to start with an interpreted language. Lua for example is a really small language that doesn't limit you much (apart from a few small issues, like indexes starting at 1, but if you try it for a bit then it won't bother...
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