awesome, user lidstah is compiling a list of games working on RK3588 MNT Reform, almost 60 entries already https://arkham.lidstah.info/reform-games.html

how can i use apitrace to capture gtk4 apps' rendering? `apitrace trace gtk4-demo` only records 1 frame. what's the trick?

why can't i have a little 2VM3858, as a treat

oh no > [ 1498.711144] hub 1-1.2.3.4.1.4:1.0: Unsupported bus topology: hub nested too deep

looked at literally 1000s of SMD tactile buttons to select one for the MNT tablet

spent a few minutes to make @radxa CM5 with RK3588S2 processor work in MNT Pocket Reform with RCM4 adapter. got our Debian based System Image to boot and to Gnome desktop on HDMI. internal display still needs a gpio fixup to enable, but it's a very promising option

this is OpenBSD 7.9 installed to an USB stick on RK3588-powered MNT Pocket Reform. the display was set up by the @barebox bootloader for which i commissioned @ailurux to port the RK3588 DSI etc display drivers. the framebuffer is passed to OpenBSD via EFI GOP […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

OpenBSD on MNT Pocket Reform (with RK3588)! next question: can it rotate the framebuffer console?

Looking forward to participating in the first WOP organized by @palomakop, added it to my calendar. Maybe I try patching @strudel and a variable font editor together somehow https://palomakop.tv/week-of-patching

hums s.h.i.e.l.d. theme

btw here's a pic of @timonsku taking some pics of MNT Quasar (Qualcomm QCS8550/QCS6490) powered MNT Reform Next open hardware laptop at #oshwa2026 (brought to life with uboot/kernel engineering help from @LinaroLtd and with funding from @nlnet#oshwa2026)

#oshwa2026 was sooo good and over way too fast, and intense/overwhelming at the same time. rarely talked with so many super nice people in such a short time, and still managed to miss out on some, and missed some opportunities to play with some things (like the gamebub, aaaa cc @bnys#oshwa2026).

it begins (hopefully) > Chinese memory maker CXMT enters mainstream consumer memory with Corsair Vengeance DDR5 kit

it's open hardware summit in berlin aaaaaaa

ironic that the ARM AGI CPU servers use DDR5 RDIMMs

24 MNT shop orders ready for UPS pickup...

sneak peek at Glasgow revD0 designed by Elen Eisendle / Fully Automated!

i still have this recent pending huge contribution to ZZ9000 (our amiga graphics/network/usb card) in the back of my head. the contributor used claude in the process (this was only revealed/noticed by me a bit later into the process). i obviously can't merge as-is. but there are substantial and […]

anyone using twist (by todoist people) and can share experiences? it's not open source, but they seem to be getting a bunch of things right (focused on de-stressing and no mention of AI bullshit, sounds almost to good to be true nowadays?) https://twist.com/slack-alternative

> can be downloaded in absolute space

have zu schlechten handyempfang in der firma. welches DECT phone soll ich kaufen? :3

> benutze pegasuscreme mit tätowierung

trying out native arm64 steam on the qcs8550 mnt reform next prototype

first batch of production battery boards came for MNT Reform Next, and they seem to work fine so far.

blocking 69000 IPs...

our gitlab was brought down by a DoS attack by Meta today, with 299991 requests from "meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler)". i wonder if i could sue for damages?

> a standard defined by the Object Management Group (OMG)

a dogfooding version of mnt reform next (with qcs8550) for me to take home. big thx to @cararemixed and @xHain_hackspace for printing me that white petg part last minute!

me, helpless at the dwc3: ``` echo device > mode gpioset -c 0 4=0 echo host > mode gpioset -c 0 4=1 ```

hot take: if you think that you have to fear that contributors will abandon your software project because you ban llm contributions, there might be a bigger problem around

incantation to run prusa-slicer with correct 3d view on RK3588 MNT (Pocket) Reform: `LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libGLEW.so.2.2 prusa-slicer --opengl-compatibility` (this fixes 2 bugs at once)

anyone has a prusa core one L and would test-print a part for me? :3

bizarrobook 9000 https://googlebook.google/

btw anyone happens to know how to speedrun this adlink ampere devkit with 2x random 8gb ram sticks from my pc? it probably needs a fitting firmware image for the ram timings?

> Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) is a de facto standard (with many variants)

so far my (i think) worst, most time-wasting and most regrettable decision i made was to change SoC<->SC (System Controller) communication from UART to SPI a few years ago and now it's baked into all the things

the developments at gitlab feel unsettling. we have all our sources in a self hosted gitlab since a long time, and migrating to i.e. forgejo would be a big undertaking, with the tons of deeplinks from our docs into the repositories, a bunch of tricked-out CI yamls etc. and we're under a lot of […]

> "Channel 4" is pure marketing and doesn't really exist

ok new touchscreen samples for MNT Vector (7inch tablet) are in, and they're great. now how to build and run Gnome Mobile on Debian...

i messed up my system a bit by restarting before the 3000+ packages of an apt full-upgrade were configured, and this resulted in ye olde gdm3 endless-start-fail-loop with farting noises on the speakers. i think it would be really great to make it not endlessly restart but revert to a getty after […]

are there any open source hardware cassette decks yet? i have a faint memory of seeing something here a while ago, at least a tape head+mechanism... also, how much digital data could be recorded on them with modern DAC/ADC/DSP?

MNT Reform Next Battery Pack Front PCB production confirmation photos are in. this design is pretty fiddly because it includes the monitoring, balancing and gating (protection) circuits for 4x 18650 cells as part of the mechanical structure of the pack. i […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

> The angst at Meta

Designed the t-shirt for this year's #iwp9 in Victoria ^^! https://iwp9.org/

TIL you can leverage some compiler bounds checking in C by specifying array/buffer length in the function parameters, like `char* eightcc_to_str(uint64_t word, char buf[9])` unfortunately it doesn't work for the return value

TIL that if you just quickly want to use eglot and clangd with a random C codebase and not figure out compile commands etc, you can just give a list of all important include paths by making a compile_flags.txt with an `-I"include/path/"` entry per line

in c99, i can initialize a struct variable directly with a designated initializer. and i can assign that variable to a member of an array of such structs (it gets copied). but is there a way to do both in one step, but not at initialization time? what i mean […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

MNT Pocket Reform, our smallest open source hardware laptop, is currently being exhibited in Strasbourg, France, at the Shadok (Fabrique du Numérique) space. As far as we know the exhibition ends in June, so if you're in the area, you can still check it out […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

well researched and accurate information source https://wholesaletechnology.co.nz/blog/

i just remembered the bomb from the movie dark star. i think we've almost arrived in that timeline