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1. minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:34:01 JST minute

   some stats re MNT Pocket Reform @ Crowd Supply (with the data that i have access to):
   —there are 30 unshipped crowdfunded devices
   —there are 78 unshipped post-crowdfunding devices
   we have 51 devices on the way to Mouser (they do the fulfillment). 57 to go to reach parity.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:36:25 JST minute

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     we used all the displays that were good in the backup display shipment. i ordered more backup displays from 2 more suppliers now while the main/bulk display supplier is still letting us wait (we ordered and paid 12 months ago from them).

     from the first backup display supplier, we got a box of 100 displays and 66 were broken. here are some pictures that show how broken the worst ones are... so we're burning money on broken displays while looking for more.

   • young man yells at the cloud (bamboombibbitybop@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:39:35 JST young man yells at the cloud

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     @mntmn That's on them, right? Do you get replacements?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:39:59 JST minute

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     our main display supplier decided at some point in the process that they won't ship us JDI displays, because they're EOL and they can't guarantee the quality. so they came up with some way to adapt another display with the same resolution and exact same dimensions, but it needed a flex cable adapter, different mipi dsi init code and a PWM backlight control that we were able to offload to the RP2040 system controller (this will require different firmware for those models).

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:40:17 JST minute

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     • young man yells at the cloud

     @bamboombibbitybop we'll see. we don't really have legal leverage overseas

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:42:30 JST minute

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     this process started in october 2023. it took forever for them to get the samples ready and to give us some of the info we needed to make them work and we had to figure out the rest ourselves. also, when finally everything was ready they suddenly raised the price so we're getting 350 instead of 500. every second day i'm pestering about the status of this shipment and i'm assured it's moving and will be trackable any day now... meanwhile they kept our $15000 for a year in the bank.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:44:35 JST minute

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     • Timon 🛠

     even @timonsku was involved at some point to help figure out how to drive those new displays because we were just scratching our heads about the sketchy and pasted together "documentation"

   • morl0ck (morl0ck@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:44:54 JST morl0ck

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     @mntmn that sounds like a lot. Is the pocket more in demand than the classic?

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:45:22 JST minute

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     • morl0ck

     @morl0ck i'd say so yeah. we also have a lot of orders in our own shop

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 22:49:50 JST minute

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     • holo//memory

     these pictures are by @holo_memory who had to test all of them

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 23:28:13 JST minute

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     • momo

     @momo oh do you have a link to that story?

   • momo (momo@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 11-Oct-2024 23:28:14 JST momo

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     @mntmn OMG that sounds like you have problems keyboard.io had as well with their model-01.

     Too bad that there are so many stories like this were books could be written about.

     I hope the future is looking brighter.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:04:15 JST minute

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     • momo

     @momo these posts are great, thanks a lot!

   • momo (momo@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:04:16 JST momo

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     @mntmn

     I think June 2019 update is telling about stuff you do not expect and do not want to experience. When you got time and curiosity that is a great starting point uo a decision to scroll through more updates.

     OTOH keyboard.io never disappointed to be open as much as they could to inform their customers what happened and what their plans are. I had no problem waiting for the keyboard because of their open communication that never was mean to ay party involved.

   • momo (momo@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 01:04:18 JST momo

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     • Jesse Vincent

     @mntmn
     They sent it via regular backer updates. Got plenty of them in my mail box.

     You might scroll through the updates on kickstarter or contact @jesse

     https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/keyboardio/the-model-01-an-heirloom-grade-keyboard-for-seriou/posts

     All the best for your endeavours.

   • Eberhard Wolff (ewolff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Oct-2024 04:23:10 JST Eberhard Wolff

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     @mntmn Wow, what a mess! I hope all the best!

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 03:36:06 JST minute

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     • skedarwarrior

     @skedarwarrior yes, a lot of them

   • skedarwarrior (skedarwarrior@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 03:36:07 JST skedarwarrior

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     @mntmn How many of these are hyper(s)?

     Btw, unrelated, but I hope I get mine before december. ;)