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1. Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:51:55 JST Drew DeVault

   I hate to be That Guy but I'd probably love the MNT Reform if it weren't for the keyboard

   I wonder what the power utilization is like

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:51:53 JST Drew DeVault

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     • minute

     @mntmn hm, I guess I'm curious... but I'm not in the market for a new laptop or keyboard so it's unlikely to convert me anyway; I don't want you to go out of your way

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:51:53 JST minute

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     @drewdevault ok! while i have your attention, which processor module would you be, hypothetically, most interested in? (including rockchip RK3588 (16/32GB RAM) and qualcomm C6490 (8GB RAM))

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:51:54 JST minute

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     @drewdevault if you want to test the difference we can send you a v3 keyboard to try.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:51:55 JST minute

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     @drewdevault lets talk. what's the issue with the keyboard? you probably know the old (v2) one, or have you tried the v3 one? or do you prefer chiclet keys?

     sorry, i didn't see the other answers in the thread at first. you do have the v2 keyboard that doesn't have a traditional stagger. it had an unconventional stagger that is the same for each row. this can feel really odd if you're used to the conventional one.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:59:57 JST minute

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     @drewdevault we do it so that by default you boot u-boot from SD card but can also switch that to u-boot on eMMC flash, which can boot distros from SD card or USB stick. there is an effort to get EDK2 working with the RK3588 version of our laptop(s): https://github.com/edk2-porting/edk2-rk3588/issues/124

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:59:58 JST Drew DeVault

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     • minute

     @mntmn I don't know much about the differences between these chips so I'll go with "whichever one has the most upstream mainline Linux support"

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 00:59:58 JST Drew DeVault

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     • minute

     @mntmn oh, and while I have your attention, please ship laptops with u-Boot on an SPI flash or similar pre-configured with UEFI support (or edk2)

   • Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 02:13:27 JST Drew DeVault

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     • minute

     @mntmn gotcha. This is something that really irks me about basically all FOSS hardware vendors. I really think it ought to *ship* with this pre-configured by default; as in it should be considered a blocker for the production run.

   • minute (mntmn@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 02:13:27 JST minute

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     @drewdevault sure, we'll get there eventually. in the meantime, most of our customers are OK with debian and some have installed other distros or ported other OSes (in the case of imx8mq there was 9front, genode, openbsd)