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#PocketReform or #MNTReform Next ??? Love a straightforward, workman laptop - love the idea of a wee computer hooked up to a monitor for desk use and then little computer on the go???? idk!

#MNT

#PocketReform or #MNTReform Next ??? Love a straightforward, workman laptop - love the idea of a wee computer hooked up to a monitor for desk use and then little computer on the go???? idk!

#MNT

#PocketReform or #MNTReform Next ??? Love a straightforward, workman laptop - love the idea of a wee computer hooked up to a monitor for desk use and then little computer on the go???? idk!

#MNT

#PocketReform or #MNTReform Next ??? Love a straightforward, workman laptop - love the idea of a wee computer hooked up to a monitor for desk use and then little computer on the go???? idk!

#MNT

#PocketReform or #MNTReform Next ??? Love a straightforward, workman laptop - love the idea of a wee computer hooked up to a monitor for desk use and then little computer on the go???? idk!

#MNT

I wasn't expecting OrcaSlicer to work that easily on #mnt #pocketReform

I wasn't expecting OrcaSlicer to work that easily on #mnt #pocketReform

I wasn't expecting OrcaSlicer to work that easily on #mnt #pocketReform

Any current owners know whether Suspend/Resume is working on the #MNT #PocketReform yet? Thanks!

I think that's a very personal thing. I tried a little bit, but didn't get used to the Pocket Reform typing experience yet, sadly. I think best way would be to meet up somewhere with some #pocketreform owner and just try typing on it. Or get a similar shaped USB connected #ortholinear keyboard and practice with it.

I think that's a very personal thing. I tried a little bit, but didn't get used to the Pocket Reform typing experience yet, sadly. I think best way would be to meet up somewhere with some #pocketreform owner and just try typing on it. Or get a similar shaped USB connected #ortholinear keyboard and practice with it.

I think that's a very personal thing. I tried a little bit, but didn't get used to the Pocket Reform typing experience yet, sadly. I think best way would be to meet up somewhere with some #pocketreform owner and just try typing on it. Or get a similar shaped USB connected #ortholinear keyboard and practice with it.

I think that's a very personal thing. I tried a little bit, but didn't get used to the Pocket Reform typing experience yet, sadly. I think best way would be to meet up somewhere with some #pocketreform owner and just try typing on it. Or get a similar shaped USB connected #ortholinear keyboard and practice with it.

I think that's a very personal thing. I tried a little bit, but didn't get used to the Pocket Reform typing experience yet, sadly. I think best way would be to meet up somewhere with some #pocketreform owner and just try typing on it. Or get a similar shaped USB connected #ortholinear keyboard and practice with it.

Due to ill, had a quiet couple of hours playing OpenRA on the #PocketReform. Playing Dune 2000, it pulls the assets off the disc image beautifully, and lets me play the missions with the video briefings. John Rhys-Davies is, as always, magnificent.

Not all the single player missions are supported, they have to be rebuilt for OpenRA. List of supported missions are here:
https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/9287

Game plays great on the screen size, and very playable with the tiny trackball. Reasonable way to kill a few hours while keeping the cats company through the loud bangs outside.

RK3588, pull OpenRA down from source and build. Launch with "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland" initially to get past the first screen and then you no longer need the flag.

#openra #dune2000 #mntpocketreform

@amin I already have a #Dasung #epaper monitor connected to my #Thinkpad, so just need a good keyboard (looking at #Atreus) and monitor stand and stuff to complete my desktop setup. Since my needs aren't that heavy, maybe my #PocketReform can double up as a "desktop" when docked...it's also likely to be more powerful by the time I've saved up enough to be able to afford it 🤪

And yeah I'm making do with a dumbphone already, which has been a bit hard but getting better by the day...I mean year 🚀

@amin I already have a #Dasung #epaper monitor connected to my #Thinkpad, so just need a good keyboard (looking at #Atreus) and monitor stand and stuff to complete my desktop setup. Since my needs aren't that heavy, maybe my #PocketReform can double up as a "desktop" when docked...it's also likely to be more powerful by the time I've saved up enough to be able to afford it 🤪

And yeah I'm making do with a dumbphone already, which has been a bit hard but getting better by the day...I mean year 🚀

@amin I already have a #Dasung #epaper monitor connected to my #Thinkpad, so just need a good keyboard (looking at #Atreus) and monitor stand and stuff to complete my desktop setup. Since my needs aren't that heavy, maybe my #PocketReform can double up as a "desktop" when docked...it's also likely to be more powerful by the time I've saved up enough to be able to afford it 🤪

And yeah I'm making do with a dumbphone already, which has been a bit hard but getting better by the day...I mean year 🚀

@amin I already have a #Dasung #epaper monitor connected to my #Thinkpad, so just need a good keyboard (looking at #Atreus) and monitor stand and stuff to complete my desktop setup. Since my needs aren't that heavy, maybe my #PocketReform can double up as a "desktop" when docked...it's also likely to be more powerful by the time I've saved up enough to be able to afford it 🤪

And yeah I'm making do with a dumbphone already, which has been a bit hard but getting better by the day...I mean year 🚀

@amin I already have a #Dasung #epaper monitor connected to my #Thinkpad, so just need a good keyboard (looking at #Atreus) and monitor stand and stuff to complete my desktop setup. Since my needs aren't that heavy, maybe my #PocketReform can double up as a "desktop" when docked...it's also likely to be more powerful by the time I've saved up enough to be able to afford it 🤪

And yeah I'm making do with a dumbphone already, which has been a bit hard but getting better by the day...I mean year 🚀

@amin almost had to scroll up halfway to double-check that the author wasn't myself! 🤪

I'm with you on most things including the #Tangara (I want one) and #PocketReform (same). I have two #Kobo and a half already, but am hoping for someone (my future self?) to make a decent RSS reader for it that's more than just an ebook maker.

I think the main difference would be picking #XMPP for messaging. Hey, with #Convo running on #KaiOS maybe I can turn those phones into your dream phone 😉

I’ve had an Adafruit Macropad for a little over 3 years, and while I was working from home at the start of that period it was permanently on, connected to my MacBook Pro on my desktop, with a variety of shortcuts configured for driving different apps that I used day-to-day. My configuration is on GitHub.

More recently, I have not been using it nearly as much.

Last weekend for our Makeroni meetup, I pulled it out of my kit bag and started to tinker some more. I have a variety of additional Qwiic / StemmaQT controls and sensors that I wanted to play with, so I updated to the most recent stable build of CircuitPython and started to have a look at them.

I also noticed that it is a nice size to act as a companion device to the MNT Pocket Reform…

I noticed a problem – there was some burn-in on the OLED display where it had been mostly always-on in the past (lesson learned, to manage the screen output more carefully!) – but fortunately, Adafruit have done a lovely job of making that easy to replace. I also think it might be nice to have that screen wedged up at a slight angle to aid readability.

I have a notion that I can 3D print a case to more-or-less match the look of my Hyper Purple laptop. I don’t have an identical colour of filament, but I do have a range of options. I also ordered a bunch of different knobs for the potentiometer, and some alternate keycaps, so that I can make the look a bit more consistent as well.

I don’t have a final case design yet (and I need to spend some time properly learning FreeCAD and/or Fusion360, really), and I also haven’t finished modifying the macros code to match what I’m using on Debian on the Pocket Reform, but this is just some work-in-progress.

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https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/30/keypad-hacking/

#Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload #3dPrinting #adafruit #circuitpython #hardware #keypad #macropad #maker #mntPocketReform #pocketreform #rp2040 #Technology

I had hoped – and really wanted – to be at Wuthering Bytes / Open Source Hardware Camp this weekend, but didn’t get that sorted out because of Reasons.

So, I spent today doing various other things instead.

• I’ve been invited to a couple of events that are arranged using Gathio recently. Gathio has support for ActivityPub federation (there’s an ActivityStreams type for an Event, so this is all another piece of how the fediverse can be used to follow and participate in a broad range of activities). I noticed that there’s a new documentation site for Gathio, but certain links and messages still point to the project’s now-discontinued wiki, so I sent a pull request to fix those.
• I’ve been playing a bit with Picotron, a fantasy virtual workstation from the folks that also make the PICO-8 virtual retro gaming system. I’ll probably write a bit more deeply on that sometime soon (I hope / if I get around to it).
• Our elderly neighbour asked me to go in to help with some issues with her email. It turned out that Microsoft has completely turned off the old DeltaSync service that her mail client had been set up with (the clue was a 404 error which was part of the otherwise incomprehensible message from her computer), so I reconfigured things to avoid going near Outlook / Live Mail – there was absolutely no way she would have been able to work any of that out. Really, I would like to refresh her machine with a nice clean and fast Linux distribution, but she’s older and very used to how things currently work, so I tried to keep the changes to a minimum.
• I learned that CloudHiker is a thing. Many rabbit holes to investigate.
• I tried out a few different Wayland compositors on the Pocket Reform. wlmaker is interesting – old-style WindowMaker but on Wayland (although I don’t think it supports rotation yet, which is a deal-breaker for now). I also tried hyprland, but couldn’t get it to display anything – the debug log checked out but the display was black. I’m not too bothered as I’m aware of certain issues with that project. The author of cpufetch has a patch ready that adds support for the CPU module that the Pocket Reform uses, I tested that today as well. I spotted a couple of config improvements that we can make in the default Pocket Reform image, so I’ll aim to submit merge requests on those. I posted some wallpapers to the community forum.
• I quickly made a Fediwall to aggregate conversations about #OSHCamp, since I was missing out!
• The great folks at WeDistribute have made an Events hub for Fediverse (and adjacent) events, which is excellent. I spotted there’s an ATProto talk in London on Tuesday, and I intend to get along to that. They also posted an interesting piece on Flohmarkt, a marketplace instance with Fediverse compatibility. So much interesting development lately.
• Caught up-to-date on The Repair Shop.

Tomorrow: a Makeroni meetup in Wimbledon.

(Bank Holiday) Monday: Hampton Court Food Festival.

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https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/08/24/todays-notes/

#Blaugust2024 #100DaysToOffload #activitypub #activitystreams #atproto #debian #fediverse #fediwall #gathio #Linux #London #OSHCamp #pico8 #picotron #pocketReform #retro #techSupport #Technology #wayland

Lilbits: Apple’s first consumer robot, Qualcomm’s first smartphone chip with Oryon CPU cores, and MNT Pocket Reform (modular mini-laptop)

The MNT Pocket Reform is a modular, open source mini-laptop that went up for pre-order last year through a crowdfunding campaign and began shipping this summer. Thanks to its modular design, the system was always made with customization in mind: the brains of the system are on a removable system-on-a-module (SoM) with a processor, memory, and a […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=171082

#apple #lilbits #mnt #modem #oryon #pocketReform #robotics #snapdragon8Gen4 #steamDeck #steamos #Valve

The MNT Pocket Reform is a tiny, modular mini-laptop that originally shipped with an NXP I.MX8M Plus processor. But now you can buy a $165 module + adapter to use a faster AM311D processor (the module has 50% less RAM though). https://buff.ly/4fPtQCw #PocketReform #MNT #MNTPocketReform #Modular #MiniLaptop

When in holiday I like my iPhone even more than usual. At the same time I‘m too lazy to use it to do some more productive writing tasks. A very small typing device would be my go to, probably. Looking at you, #GPDPocket and @mntmn #PocketReform. While the reform is open hardware, I like the keyboard layout of the GPD more.

Happy weekend! I'm off to the studio to try to get my #FluidNC controller tuned correctly, and to play more with #PocketReform. What are your plans?