Notices by josch (josch@floss.social), page 2

@mntmn With all these flex cables... will it look like this? 😃

https://mastodon.social/@arturo182/111364556242053371

@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?

@mntmn I see a row of eight DIP switches with the third of them toggled -- what do they control? Just curious. :)

@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.

@mntmn Wooo! Nice! 🥳 Is there something behind ordering exactly 55 modules?

We are still at linux 6.8 in Debian unstable but 6.9 is already packaged in git.

@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.

@mntmn I'm looking at my huge motherboard 2.5 and I'm asking myself: how does all of this fit in there??? 🤔

@mntmn The mystery laptop might have ports at its back? 👀

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 Not sure whether pulling hair out over potential regressions of linux 6.9 on imx8mq and ls1028a or being back at rk3588? 🙃

@vee @mntmn That package should be pre-installed on your pocket reform. Is it not? Do you have the mntre.com apt repository configured or made changes to your apt configuration? The package is definitely in the repo: https://mntre.com/reform-debian-repo/pool/main/r/reform-qcacld2/

@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 👀 Those look like a *lot* of brightness levels!

@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. 😆

Turns out that at https://fkcaps.com/custom/ I can buy custom color and custom label low-profile keycaps for the kailh choc brown switches of my MNT Reform open hardware laptop. I might've gone a bit overboard but I really like how colorful my keyboard is now and how easy it is to make the Reform my very own custom computer. 💻 ❤️