i, for one, welcome the valve VR headset powered by qualcomm chipset + arm64 x86 emulation (~synergies~)

displayport working on quasar yessss

pulled an accidental almost-all-nighter (not a good idea, but i'm ok) on Quasar to try to get either DSI or DP to work, and didn't have success with either.

wow, Gajim sure looks different than 20 years ago, nice

fever idea (not really because i had this idea 2 weeks ago or so): use as little of vendor SoC IP as possible to just not deal with a lot of bugs, instead put all peripheral IO that's not PCIe/USB3/HDMI/DP in a tandem FPGA. also not really an original idea, RPi are doing sth like that now IIRC […]

fever idea: EU law that requires that for any chip release, the chip company must release a complete emulator first (would save billions in wasted compile-reboot-pull-hair cycle time)

oscilloscope envy

fever ideas: what if we had a different special kernel for each subsystem and they have to cooperate (for example, display/graphics specific kernel that is entirely optional on servers). wait, is this just microkernel?

Loctite 999 is an advanced multi part adhesive suitable for bicycle headset alignment, hyperdrive injector port retention, and workplace pranks. Part A consists of 92% degenerate strange quark matter in a preservative of antigluon superfluid. Part B (activator) is a proprietary blend of tau […]

normal computer (peak performance)

lil touch test (finally found the i2c usb adapter while cleaning up forsaken corners of the studio with @theawesomerandomness )

got updated covid vaccine and influenza too in prep for #39c3. in berlin you can easily click this online at bio 7.0 apotheke for example. paid by krankenkasse

MNT Reform Next left side port board v2 almost (re)done, now including a redriver for USB3 and new data+power mux stuff, and hard reset button and LEDs next to the charging (USB-C PD) port. also swapped 2 connectors for better internal cable mgmt

richtig bock auf urlaub tbh

we were busy putting more spare parts including 2 a bit more exciting PCBs in the MNT shop (esp. @holo_memory): - Classic MNT Reform Motherboard 3.0: https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-reform-motherboard-30 - Pocket Reform Charger Board V2 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

"ship it!" — Theseus

ok a big TIL/surprise moment: because of vulkan, i can let applications render using an external AMD GPU on a desktop that's driven by the RK3588's display pipeline... it's like mixing GPUs. and using zink, opengl apps can be wrapped into vulkan transparently. which means i can run Blender on […]

what's your favorite linux markdown viewer with images support?

a brand new MNT Update for October 2025 is out, written by @holo_memory, please enjoy: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2025-10-31-october-update.html

constant pin entries on the phone are annoying, and biometrics seem unreliable (i tried fingerprint sensor on the fp5 for a while and it didn't work for me) and unsafe. is there a better way that i'm missing out on?

watching a video about private equity buying everything in pro audio (native instruments, etc) i think over a long enough timescale (over than five years) the only tools that remain are FOSS ones. it doesn't matter that you think they're janky compared to professional-grade ones (sometimes […]

programming out of spite https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-tools/-/blob/main/bin/reform-waybar-icon-wedge?ref_type=heads

i have current Blender running smoothly on MNT Reform with RK3588 and external AMD RX 580 GPU via M.2 to Oculink adatpter -> Oculink dock. ("JMT Dock-OC4"). this is a big deal for me because it means i'll be able to get into more 3D stuff at home. just need to think about a solid mechanical setup.

uff very sleepy today

watching an arte documentary where they introduce people in madagascar who earn around 1 euro per 3 hours of work (!) to tag images for AI companies

i wonder who made that vulkan 1.4 marketing artwork

is there already an fpga pcie card that's meant to be programmed while sitting in its host, by its host, and has some facility to pipe i.e. a framebuffer back to the host? i'd like to have this for in-computer fpga emulation (yeah yeah, no semantics please) of retro and other systems. like, in a […]

RCORE RK3588 testing prep!

sudden flashback to DVI-I and the little cross/blade thing in the connectors

we launched 4 little products in the MNT shop today, 3 of them are spare parts for MNT Pocket Reform and 1 is a new *iridescent/holo fabric* version of the MNT Reform Sleeve! 1. https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform-sleeve 2 […]

(among other things, ordered a minsforum deg1 oculink dock, SFX power supply, and various oculink breakouts)

kind of cursed! (but it's just waydroid, which is... extremely snappy nowadays? i.e. it's a container for android running on the linux desktop, like an app for running android apps)

heh, barebox has a web based demo https://www.barebox.org/demo/?graphic=0

@danct12 hey do i misremember or didn't you have a uboot branch with vop2 working with rk3588?

PSA on RK3588 based MNT Reform / MNT Pocket Reform, check if you have "pmull aes sha1 sha2" in the output if you do "cat /proc/cpuinfo". if not, that means cryptography will be slower than it should be (incl disk encryption). this seems to be caused by uboot/tf-a version. the fix: `sudo […]

"nala" seems to be a neat colorful alternative to "apt" and can update the package index and install your package in one command ("sudo nala install --update mypackage")

yes, people sometimes complain that they have to type `apt` commands on debian linux but have you tried correctly setting up the weird dishwasher in my apartment? (and also to get a replacement geschirrkorb for it, argh)

earlier today i reproduced running an amdgpu (polaris10) as eGPU on MNT Reform with RK3588 over PCIe breakout, something i didn't expect to become possible. i also got a glimpse of sway working (instead of just kmscube) but my cables are too wonky for a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

boring and obvious take, but i find AI stuff only interesting when it fails in hilarious or dangerous ways, and i find grifters and snake-oil salesmen fascinating in a crime-drama kind of way. i'll never respect AI output as a creative work because it's just random machine garbage and i'm only […]

yesterday i set up an environment for faster kernel development iteration (esp. for rk3588). it builds a monolithic kernel using the patchstack we have for debian kernel version, but on a real git checkout. i can boot the kernel+dtb directly after compiling […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

have to set up a pocket reform test farm to chase a hard to reproduce reset bug, but also have to finish final version of some reform next pcbs (port boards), but also have to make progress on qcs6490 module. somebody help me budget this

if anyone has a #39c3 voucher to share, i won't say no ^^

nice, direct eDP output from RK3588 to the classic/next display panel works! (tested here with classic reform motherboard and a new-ish passive adapter).

here is a rare interview based article on MNT Reform and open hardware in general, in german but i think modern browsers have a built-in babelfish. i said more political things that didn't make the cut (about surveillance tech industry (chat control, thorn etc), right-wing tech, our products […]

purple-pink is a good color

watched the marathon design breakdown video on mnt reform next and was thinking hmm some of this aesthetic fits. the OS/UI doesn't lean enough into this yet :D

someone hacked amdgpu to get an amd rx580 gpu working on rk3588, quite exciting https://github.com/mariobalanica/arm-pcie-gpu-patches

berliners: where do you buy your used books nowadays? (boost is ok 📚)

ok looks like things have progressed in ARM64 land regarding Steam support... i just built box64 with box32 support (still experimental, but seems to work?) from git on my MNT Reform Next and used the included install_steam.sh script and so far it just works […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

large pocket reform isn't real, it can't hurt you