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    Improved promotional media

    Well since it's at the preorder stage, it's important to actually convince people to preorder by realistically showing what's being preordered. Right now there are pictures at angles a person wouldn't use it at. Even if there were only prototypes, the keys aren't prototypes are they?
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    I agree https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/improved-promotional-media.98962/
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    Improved promotional media

    TL;DR "The Pyra keyboard has awful glare, I wouldn't buy that thing!" ---- This is a continuation of https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/information-about-os-kernel-prototypes.98939/page-2#post-1668099 I've always had a problem with keys, especially shine and poor contrast with dark...
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    I'll probably be the one to take some pictures and video. I have a little diffusing lightbox and a mounted document camera
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    That's good news. I found the media package images with more keyboard pictures. They were all on an angle showing a kind of tunnel-shine. Certainly the color difference and the backlighting alone are huge improvements.
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    all the shift-characters are dark blue
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    Finding software opportunities and common ground

    Tor? No. Please don't consider another layer of complexity. Just so you know, I had read an article about a guy (in Germany?) who was accused (arrested I believe) of "someone else's" internet usage through a Tor share that he was participating in.
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    No, squinting and turning doesn't help shine with rounded domes with dark blue text on a black background. I presume I'd need to have the backlighting on for the Pyra if it's anything similar.
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    Information about OS / Kernel / Prototypes

    Oh eww, the shine on those buttons is terrible. That made my Pandora useless.. is it really that bad in all lighting? Also, regarding the touchscreen borders, this might be a problem for very thin scroll bars. Presumably the default size will be fairly wide.
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    Raw console/TTY access?

    Oh! I had a script somewhere which could drop the user to the tty and back.. I wonder if I could dig that up.
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    Always on? Always connected?

    That's all doable in scripting, so this sounds like a simple problem to solve. MP3 requires like 50 MHz (on x86) so throttling will work fine. :)
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    Finding software opportunities and common ground

    I expect there are two primary concerns when making a default distribution/base decision: - sales - support Having something pre-built with useful and interesting programs will let someone feel immediately empowered. Purchase-regret must be diminished. Have a good balance between useless and...
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    Always on? Always connected?

    if a script could be run when the cover is closed/opened, then theoretically cpufreq could be run to throttle the cpu, if that helps with power usage.
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    Raw console/TTY access?

    Thanks. I asked because as far as I could tell this isn't possible on the Pandora.
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    Raw console/TTY access?

    Will I be able to control-alt-f1 and get to the console without X?
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    Something has gone wrong.

    I might get on board with this. I bought a Pi but USB 2.0 is trash, and then I got a CubieTruck but it's annoying to get going from scratch. Something that's "Pyra compatible" would be nice as a little torrent box, even if it had a CPU that's "bad" and has to be underclocked to work properly...
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    An update of the waiting game

    Cross your fingers for the only problems being from software.
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    Just a bunch of pics

    I actually understood that! Make sure you test around a dog. :)
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    H.265 / HEVC hardware decoding

    So far it sounds like transcoding down is going to be the way to go. 720p is (obviously) the target for the screen, but exploring things which are larger filesize but easier on the processor might be the way to go since I'd be transcoding anyway. I may as well also be open to alternate video...
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    H.265 / HEVC hardware decoding

    I was wondering if the Pyra will have hardware decoding support. I'm pretty new to this topic, and I understand that it's only recently being added into processors and Pyra's will be a bit out of date. So I'm guessing no. Is this one of the things which might be made available with some...
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