Notices by josch (josch@floss.social)

@noortjevee @mntmn Somehow it makes me feel old thinking back of the show... i wonder if it held held up and is still as good today as it was back then... wonder whether it's worth to re-watch it...

@arturo182 @mntmn Are there recordings or slides available for the talks?

@jacqueline @mntmn Right now, the bottom seems to be completely flat on the inside. This means that I'd probably glue or tape things to it to keep them in place. I wonder if the Next body should come with anything that helps in attaching new mods to the bottom (like some protrusions and holes for M2 screws or the like). Or whether having the bottom anything but plain flat would mainly hinder creativity... 🤔

@mntmn Running dolphin is a big win but working dsi and multiple hdmi is imho the bigger win -- congratulations on getting this working with rk3588! 🥳

@mntmn I assume this means that the backported patches enabling more than the first hdmi output again finally do work? :) How is the internal display attached? Does mipi-dsi support for rk3588 work yet?

I did not expect that the MNT Reform with Banana Pi A311D was actually able to allow playing (with low graphics settings) Torchlight 2 smoothly! 🥳 I learned about the minigalaxy software today (from the Debian repos) and downloading the game was a breeze with it.

Debian is providing funding for an MNT Reform with RK3588 so that I can improve Debian support on that platform and can provide long term stable support for it for Trixie and beyond. Thank you for this opportunity!

For full transparency, my funding request for Debian sponsorship can be found as PDF here:

https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.pdf

Or here in HTML form:

https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.html

@mntmn I was annoyed by this many times. To fix this I maintain my own personal list of default applications per mime type in the file `~/.config/mimeapps.list`. You can either edit that file manually (it contains lines like `video/mp4=mpv.desktop`) or add new defaults by running: `xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf`. You can query the current default for a mime type with `xdg-mime query default text/plain`. Most desktop files you can use are in `/usr/share/applications`.

@mntmn Uuuh sweet! But that also means that it will fit in the big reform without requiring a hdmi converter, which is another big plus, no?

@mntmn @theawesomerandomness Wait, this is a bit cursed...? Is this a 9-pin JST SH next to a 10-pin JST SH because there is no 19-pin JST SH? 🙃

@mntmn Somebody played bad apple on the oled but i cannot find the recording anymore... 😢

On the other hand, while searching on YT I found this reform advertisement that i wasn't aware of yet but is pretty recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv7OHLZo-Ws

@mntmn @drewdevault There is edk2 in Debian https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/edk2 I wonder how much patching is required to make that source package build something that can reproduce what you are currently experiencing?

@mntmn Oh wow, that's a *lot* of free space! Thank you! No, I do not have a 3D model. I only have the product pictures in the forum thread i linked and i have a few thinkpad modules here. Would it help if I created a small 3D model of one of them? Thank you!! ❤️

@mntmn Could maybe the traces somewhere in the highlighted area be routed so that a big-enough circular space is created such that people adventurous enough with a drill or dremel can try out a track-stick mod without having to manufacture their own custom keyboard PCBs first? Thank you for considering! 🙃
Context:
https://community.mnt.re/t/another-alternate-keyboard-idea/1915/5

@mntmn Somebody please donate a 2242 M.2 SSD to MNT and make the pain stop!! 🤪

Is this already with new keyboard PCBs?

@mntmn Always make sure the main Reform box fits your 3D printer! 👍

@mntmn nice! Now i have to juuuust find the git repo with the CAD fles on source.mnt.re and i can pirate^Wremix the case before its official release. Muhahaha!

I'm looking forward to seeing how you are going to solve the heatsink situation or the on/off switch. :)

tuigreet is now working on Debian Bookworm thanks to the work of Blair Noctis who re-implemented the core of rust-i18n-embed which does not exist in Debian Bookworm: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tuigreet/-/merge_requests/1

@mntmn You mean Prince Valiant Volume 3: 1941-1942 by Harold Rudolf Foster?

@mntmn It's very nice to see that all of this flex cable spaghetti works out. I remember that with the Openmoko Neo 1973 there were problems (and my memory is a bit foggy after all this years) where some of the PCB lanes were too close together so that the display driver had to be tweaked such that it was only allowed to draw to the screen when nothing was transferred to eMMC and the SD-card was interfering with the GPS when data got transferred to it...