Re: [Arm-netbook] HDMI Player Stick as DRM-free Merch Alternative

2018-07-26 Thread Louis Pearson
I think the best way to support free culture is to find artists that are making it a support them, via sites like liberapay or patreon. The issue here is *not* technical. As Stefan is saying, this is exactly the sort of thinking that got us DRM. Again, find free culture creators and support them

Re: [Arm-netbook] Urgent statement on Cryptocurrency ethics

2018-03-21 Thread Louis Pearson
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 8:11 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 12:08 PM, Wookey wrote: > > On 2018-03-20 21:44 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > >

Re: [Arm-netbook] Fwd: Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices Update: FOSDEM Recap, RISC-V Update, and Certification Marks

2018-03-13 Thread Louis Pearson
Woah, that's not an easy to read email on a text-only mailing list. This is just a crowd-supply update email forwarded through the list, and the only important part is this link: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fosdem-recap-risc-v-update-and-certification-marks

Re: [Arm-netbook] Well, this is interesting...

2018-03-12 Thread Louis Pearson
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Christopher Havel wrote: > Neither ARM nor netbook, strictly speaking, but we've veered off topic > before, so gee why not... > > https://hackaday.com/2018/03/12/new-guts-make-old-thinkpads-new/ > > Looks vaguely relevant. > > Chris >

Re: [Arm-netbook] pyra computer

2018-02-14 Thread Louis Pearson
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Julie Marchant wrote: > On 2018年02月14日 06:45, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > yes. my understanding is that Trademarks and Cerfitication > > Marks, by being covered *by* Copyright Law, are in effect a sub-branch > > of Copyright.

Re: [Arm-netbook] Talk Download: Fosdem.2018 Component.Sourcing.for.Design.and.Manufacturing.in.Shenzhen.LiveStream

2018-02-03 Thread Louis Pearson
Ooop. never mind. Found it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwUL6Afo6QQ On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Louis Pearson <desttinghimg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Alexander Ross < > maillist_arm-netb...@aross.me> wrote: > >> saved t

Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3399

2018-01-18 Thread Louis Pearson
On a slightly different topic, how much would it take for you to design a eoma68 compliant netbook housing? I was interested in the laptop, but it was (and still is) outside of my budget. Do you think you could make a netbook housing that is more budget friendly, or are there too many unknowns for

[Arm-netbook] Meltdown and Spectre

2018-01-04 Thread Louis Pearson
Has anybody else seen the recently published exploits Meltdown and Spectre? Here's a link: https://meltdownattack.com/ I'm wondering if this will increase in Risc-V processors, as most will not be vulnerable to this exploit. It relies on speculative and out-of-order execution which most current

Re: [Arm-netbook] rhombus-tech.net 'Server not found'

2017-07-19 Thread Louis Pearson
http://rhombus-tech.net/ is up for me. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk

Re: [Arm-netbook] thoughts, for the future or a late future,

2017-06-27 Thread Louis Pearson
Oh, sorry for jumping to wrong conclusions then! ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk

Re: [Arm-netbook] thoughts, for the future or a late future,

2017-06-27 Thread Louis Pearson
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:22 AM, zap wrote: > but I think whenever you decide to make a new eoma68 laptop design, make > it a 13 inch instead of 11 inch. > > aka, more space, means more durability heat-wise... What? The current EOMA68 laptop is 15 inch, not 11 or 13. It's

Re: [Arm-netbook] arm-netbook Digest, Vol 82, Issue 47

2017-05-23 Thread Louis Pearson
As someone using gmail (unfortunately), I can confirm that yes, it does clump the threads together. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to

[Arm-netbook] Development boards for GuixSD Developers

2017-05-20 Thread Louis Pearson
I asked over on the Guix development list if anyone would be interested in a dev board to help port GuixSD to the eoma68 board. So far there are two people who are interested. I've added them to http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/ and I'm making sure I haven't jumped the gun or anything. Does

Re: [Arm-netbook] Side-Topic: Liberating PocketCHIP

2017-05-12 Thread Louis Pearson
I don't know if you know about this or not, but there is a community wiki at http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/Main_Page It has examples on using buildroot to flash images to chip http://www.chip-community.org/index.php/Flashing_Buildroot_Image_from_Ubuntu Again, I'm clueless :P I have just

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-10 Thread Louis Pearson
I had this same idea just today, though I doubt I would have gotten even this far. Go for it! I believe I originally brought it up, in the context of an EOMA50 card, but an EOMA68 card would probably be more immediately useful. ___ arm-netbook mailing

Re: [Arm-netbook] Totally derailed topic

2017-05-10 Thread Louis Pearson
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:08 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > the next logical step in the chain was to analyse this emergent > evolutionary process "in general", and to conclude that the > intelligence is *NOT* a "birthright of humanity" as humans like to > arrogantly

Re: [Arm-netbook] first prototype microdesktop casework

2017-04-29 Thread Louis Pearson
> That looks much worse than the photos on CrowdSupply. I am going to have to disagree. I think it is as good as or better than the case shown on crowd supply. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk

Re: [Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-17 Thread Louis Pearson
If you want to reinvent the Internet, you might consider looking at the GNUnet project. I don't claim to be an expert on it or anything it talks about, but from what I understand about it, GNUnet is trying to reinvent the internet to be more decentralized, private, and efficient. Also look at

[Arm-netbook] ZeroPhone

2017-04-13 Thread Louis Pearson
https://hackaday.io/project/19035-zerophone-a-raspberry-pi-smartphone Not exactly a netbook, but this looks like an interesting project. How much work would it take to create something like this using EOMA68? I know I would be interested in a device like that.

Re: [Arm-netbook] EOMA68 R/Evolution bumper sticker

2016-09-21 Thread Louis Pearson
I also like v2 more than the others. My only quibble is the E touching the outline of the fish. Other than that, I think it is the best looking one. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:25 PM Christopher Havel wrote: > ...still rooting for v2. Eliminating (more or less) the white

Re: [Arm-netbook] RGB/TTL interface

2016-08-28 Thread Louis Pearson
orth it from what I can see > here. > > EOMA68 is *way* overpowered for any application using that kind of > display. EOMA68 is on the level of a Dell desktop, or at least an older > ASUS netbook. > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Louis Pearson <desttinghimg...@gmail.co

Re: [Arm-netbook] RGB/TTL interface

2016-08-28 Thread Louis Pearson
Thanks for ask these replies! I'm pretty new to displays do this has been very informative. For the project in working on, I'll be using a smaller screen, maybe with a touch screen. Something like this:

Re: [Arm-netbook] RGB/TTL interface

2016-08-28 Thread Louis Pearson
So a conversion from TTL to LVDS needs to be done in most cases? On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 10:23 Christopher Havel wrote: > Most TFT screens of relevance here use LVDS, which is entirely > different... TTL as implemented is a parallel 8bit/color scheme IIRC, > whereas LVDS is

[Arm-netbook] RGB/TTL interface

2016-08-27 Thread Louis Pearson
I have been trying to figure out how exactly the RGB interface that the eoma-68 standard supplies works. Or, in other words, what you would need to be able to connect it to a screen. The info that I have managed to find makes me think this would connect directly to a LCD or TTF screen's ribbon

Re: [Arm-netbook] Getting started making new housings?

2016-08-26 Thread Louis Pearson
Thanks for the links! I'll look at those and see what I can figure out. On Fri, Aug 26, 2016, 00:52 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net> wrote: > --- > crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 > > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 5

[Arm-netbook] Getting started making new housings?

2016-08-25 Thread Louis Pearson
Hello! I am a student going into college for Computer Engineering and I am super excited about the possibilities of this project! I have backed and will be receiving a Libre Tea Computer Card and a breakout board. I have worked with Arduinos a few times and know how to use them on a basic level,

Re: [Arm-netbook] 99%

2016-08-25 Thread Louis Pearson
100% now! Yes! On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:47 PM Alexander .S.T. Ross < maillist_arm-netb...@aross.me> wrote: > heh "we are the 99%" ...for now heh ;) > Soon to be "We are the 101%+" :D > Congratulations luke! > Well done every one :D. > > ___ >