@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...
@mntmn Woah this is so small compared to motherboard 2.5! Nice! 👍 I know that there are two more side-panel boards missing but you could arrange those vertically and have a nice stand-alone computer without the strange form-factor that motherboard 2.5 requires.
@mntmn What about an integrated microphone (with a kill switch). I imagine people wanting an integrated camera would use it in scenarios where they also want a microphone and theyd be surprised to only find a camera but no microphone?
I also wonder a bit about the background of your question. Is this about putting in a camera is hard/complex and you wonder if this is something you should allocate time for?
Or is this because you fear that potential buyers would be deterred for privacy reasons?
@theawesomerandomness If it's called "ports one" instead of "ports left" or "ports right", will the port boards fit on *both* sides of the reform next and I can choose where to install them?
@mntmn Huh... the reform-setup-wizard is adwaita, no? Could this explain why I see these issues in my testing scripts where it would somehow fail to choose the dark theme?
@gsora@mntmn A better question: can I design a carrier to fit the Reform Next motherboard into the OG reform? Since the Reform Next parts seem to require much less volume, there would be much more space for mods than with motherboard 2.5.
@hailey If you run gdb with DEBUGINFOD_URLS="https://debuginfod.debian.net" then it will automatically download the symbols you need without you having to manually install all the *-dbgsym packages.
@rwa@mntmn@jfred Yes, ethernet, power and hdmi can live at the back for all i care. I just want headphone jack, sd-card and usb at the sides.
How hard would it be to design the new touchpad such that it can be turned 180°? That way, the user can decide whether they prefer the buttons at the top or at the bottom.
MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 group photo is now on the www.debian.org front page (the second photo of the slide-show).
But hold on! I need to know where I can get this amazing black T-shirt with the fabulous pink zigzag logo that the person on the bottom left is wearing!!
@mntmn Though I guess that might be a bit disruptive for existing setups which control their setups using tools like `brightnessctl set 8` to put their display to full brightness, which would then not do the intended thing anymore. But I would also not know how to make this sort of thing opt-in... :/
@mntmn Hrm... what I'd need on the big Reform is not more brightness levels but a darker darkest level. But at MiniDebConf people told me that they have their display brightness controlled depending on what a light sensor measures and it looks really smooth when their displays adjust their brightness: one cannot see the individual steps anymore. :)
@mntmn Which discord? :) The problem with fkcaps custom keycaps is, that they only come in 1U and 1.5U which makes me switching to keyboard 3.0 even harder now. 😆