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

2018-07-22 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
‎> "Merch Alternative" I mean like instead of DRM Blu-rays or DVDs etc.

Blu-rays and DVDs are essentially dead tech at this point. I have a hard time 
even giving away free DVDs anymore because people don't have players.‎

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Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-23 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
> pyra with 4g + bluetooth headset + if really good power saving is 
> implemented, could then be a kind of phone?

That's my plan. Pyra for me for "phone", Librem5 for my wife.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-23 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Will it be RYF? Probably not. Will it be better than anything we have now? 
Absolutely.

Will it be better than Pyra‎ or Neo900? Depends on your use case. Pyra will 
probably ship sooner.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] RK3288 EOMA68 PCB

2016-12-04 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
I also have a firefly board, and have been pretty happy with it (though I can't 
get audio out over the HDMI to my sound system... :P)

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Subject: [Arm-netbook] RK3288 EOMA68 PCB

http://hands.com/~lkcl/eoma/rockchip_rk3288/
http://rhombus-tech.net/rock_chips/rk3288/firefly/

for anyone who's interested, i've published the PDFs of both the
8-layer PCB and the schematics. i'm also documenting resources for
installing mainline u-boot and linux kernel on the RK3288 firefly
(t-firefly kindly sent me a developer board). apparently there are
people who have installed debian stable on the firefly (for headless
use) out-of-the-box, which is a really good sign.

the RK3288 because it's a slightly older SoC which was used in the
Asus C201 chromebook, it seems to have extremely prolific "HOWTOs" out
there, as well as stable support in the official chromium kernel
releases and a stack-load more.

the only thing which is a complete utter pain: the 2nd USB controller
(not the one that provides both 1 USB and 1 OTG port) has at least two
known hardware bugs. first is: it doesn't support USB 1.1 devices
(argh...) and second it doesn't come back up on resume.

fortunately the *other* USB controller - the one that has 1 USB2 Host
and 1 OTG port - works perfectly. on the firefly rk3288, i tried the
OTG Host converter cables i have, plugged in a USB keyboard, up it
came first time.

i think the RK3288 would be an awesome choice for EOMA68, not least
because it can do 4GB RAM.

l.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
> also bear in mind that from experience with the HTC Universal 
> reverse-engineering doing clamshell phone / pdas is f** complicated.

They can be. But then you also have devices like the pocketCHIP which have 
almost all features I want from such a device (except the 3G) and are pretty 
darn simple. It's a spectrum, I think.

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Re: [Arm-netbook] Future case idea: subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard

2016-09-04 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
> It would be great to have a housing for the EOMA68 that is of a similar form 
> factor to one of these devices:
>
> - DragonBox Pyra [1]

Isn't EOMA68 too big to work for handhelds?

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[Arm-netbook] Ethernet with pass-through card

2016-07-26 Thread Stephen Paul Weber
Does the EOMA spec have ethernet? I forget. Neither housing lists USB ethernet 
as a thing it has, which seems odd if not (especially for the desktop 
housing)‎. Having an ethernet port in the bargain would make the pass-through 
card pretty exciting.
‎
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