Notices by jacqueline 🌟 (jacqueline@chaos.social)

@mntmn are you gonna get custom ones that bend too so you don’t have to fold them? that’d be slick

@xtaran @mntmn it’s not a tangara those are all in my home at this time!

does irc implement "sending my friend a funny image" yet or no?

realised yesterday that if my beloved iphone 8 ever breaks, then most likely i’ll end up needing a phone 1-2 inches larger bc they just don’t make them this ‘small’ anymore.

sad!

i now have in my possession, tangara with 100% production parts number one

@mntmn @bnys and would you say it's been a long way? getting from there to here?

oh shit i've got to write another project update

it's fucked how time keeps passing

@mntmn @josch yes yes yes that would rule so much

there's also this cute little expansion module that sits in the back of the device body.

the stock module give you wifi+bt, but look at all that room for activities! and the connector already gives you sd, uart, usb, 3v3 and 5v lines!

lots of room to put shit under the keyboard too i think, so long as you keep under the height allowance

poking through the reform next sources, and there's some really nice stuff going on in there https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-next/

the battery packs look super robust compared to reform classic. clearly a lot of lessons learned. they put a whole 4S charger in each of the two packs!

@mntmn

i'm thinking slotting recycled vape batteries into your laptop is an unparalleled solarpunk vibe

i'm thinking there's a lot of cheap and fun mods you could do just by swapping out one of the side ports pcbs (everything from a separate TS jack for line in to various builtin usb adapters)

i'm thinking it's gonna look sick in aluminum, and will make certain other repairable laptops look very silly by comparison.

very very exciting product!! it's shaping up to be an all-time Good Computer

i'm thinking very much about reform next. it is on my mind of late.

lb people get such a bee in their bonnet about rust. just chill out. be normal.

listen to this for a few minutes; the first couple of questions after the linked timestamp. https://youtu.be/WiPp9YEBV0Q?t=1529

it's just so embarrassing. the speaker's done some really great and valuable work, and he's got some good ideas for how to make work like this easier.

and what does he get? a bunch of fucken losers who see an angle bracket and think "omg this is literally enterprise java!!"

i'd quit too, man.

really telling tbh that almost every question is either "i don't want to learn rust" or "i don't know rust, but..."

even if you think rust in the kernel is bad, you still have a duty to know enough about it to be able to articulate a real counterargument. throwing your hands up and yelling "i'm not learning your point of view because it sucks!" is such a childish fucken attitude.

@wiredfire mnt make good computers!!

i found a dog in the font for pocket reform's little in-keyboard display