Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2013-06-30 Thread Matt Giuca
On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Adam Bolte wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Matt, > > On 30/06/13 17:35, Matt Giuca wrote: > > Thanks for a clear and detailed summary of your Ouya experiences. > > No worries. Right back at you. > > > > It sucks that there are journa

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2013-06-30 Thread Adam Bolte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matt, On 30/06/13 17:35, Matt Giuca wrote: > Thanks for a clear and detailed summary of your Ouya experiences. No worries. Right back at you. > It sucks that there are journalists going around saying that the > Ouya is less restrictive than it a

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2013-06-30 Thread Matt Giuca
Hi Adam, Thanks for a clear and detailed summary of your Ouya experiences. (I still haven't gotten into the main menu on mine, while I'm having an email conversation with support, and considering whether to buy a debit card and which one.) For what it's worth, I got an email back from support, bu

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2013-06-30 Thread Adam Bolte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/13 23:37, Matt Giuca wrote: > Did you guys end up chipping in for one? Not as a group. > Did anybody get theirs? Yes. Mine arrived on Thursday. The cardboard box was damp and looked like someone had used it as a football... but amazingly t

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2013-06-28 Thread Matt Giuca
Resurrecting this old thread, now that OUYA is out... Did you guys end up chipping in for one? Did anybody get theirs? I got mine this week, and I am severely disappointed from both a freedom and security standpoint that it requires me to enter a credit card before I can even turn it on. https://

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-27 Thread Adam Bolte
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:04:31AM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Adam Bolte writes: > > > If my above assumptions are correct, why treat graphics driver firmware > > specially? I'm certainly not saying it's wrong to demand free firmware, > > however I'm curious why some firmware is treated differ

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-26 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Adam Bolte writes: > If my above assumptions are correct, why treat graphics driver firmware > specially? I'm certainly not saying it's wrong to demand free firmware, > however I'm curious why some firmware is treated differently. Is it because > one lives in your filesystem on your HDD, but the

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-25 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:32:36PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Adam Bolte writes: > > > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > >> I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps > >> there are other free software organisations that would benefit more >

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-25 Thread Bianca Gibson
My second hand ATI is serving me well, very nice support in fedora. Radeon HD 3870, hooked up to 2 24" monitors, runs nicely even though it's quite old. Not sure I'd want to support nvidia... Bianca - on my phone, please excuse my brevity On Aug 25, 2012 4:32 PM, "Ben Sturmfels" wrote: > Adam Bo

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-24 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Adam Bolte writes: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: >> I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps >> there are other free software organisations that would benefit more >> from a donation right now. I'm thinking instead of buying a video >> ca

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-12 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 07:50:00PM +1000, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps > there are other free software organisations that would benefit more > from a donation right now. I'm thinking instead of buying a video > card from Think Penguin [3].

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-12 Thread Adam Bolte
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 09:44:09PM +1000, Matt Giuca wrote: > On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > > > I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps there are > > other free software organisations that would benefit more from a donation > > right now. I'm thi

Re: [free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-12 Thread Matt Giuca
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales though, so perhaps there are > other free software organisations that would benefit more from a donation > right now. I'm thinking instead of buying a video card from Think Penguin > [3]. > Also

[free-software-melb] Chipping in for an Ouya console?

2012-08-12 Thread Ben Sturmfels
Hi Folks, At the last meeting I mentioned that I might be interested in chipping in for one of the Ouya [1] consoles as a way to support the development of the project. A console with 4 controllers shipped to Australia would be $209 USD [2]. I see they've already raised $8M in pre-sales thou