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@prahou funny, i had very similar actual nightmares about apartment renting like this

@cas apparently yesss

@vinibarauna hmm, interesting. which caps would need replacing in what way?

@hardcoreufo yeah, that's the one with lots of pcie lanes etc

@gsora yes it is, can't believe i'm the only one with rk3588 reform for so long

this morning i had an email in my inbox from pcbway asking to confirm component placement on MNT RCORE batch pcbs. (RK3588 processor module adapter)

this morning i had an email in my inbox from pcbway asking to confirm component placement on MNT RCORE batch pcbs. (RK3588 processor module adapter)

@woof @deBaer heh, i similarly remember going to the library in school breaks and browsing books about 68000 assembler etc as a kid, or any books in the computer section

we fixed the offline handbook on MNT Pocket Reform, you can install it via `sudo apt install pocket-reform-handbook` and open it in a browser using the command `pocket-reform-handbook`. running `reform-help` also correctly lists this command now. cc @deBaer

i was annoyed with these broken/glitched SVG icons in chromium on panfrost (A311D with Mali G57 GPU). looks like turning off "GPU Rasterization" in chrome://flags helps. strangely, at least on debian this setting is set to on by default in /etc/chromium.d/default-flags which seems an oddly specific thing to do

@mcc lossy computing

i misread something in IRC and read "12-bit version of windows" and thought, that's interesting, like a roland groovebox

@thedaemon we make one, ZZ9000 ^^ but there was some other fpga stuff for microcontroller based games as well

@thedaemon@bsd.network @pixx @thedaemon@hj.9fs.net both was possible, usually a mix was employed. copper and denise/alice could be seen as a hw compositor, blitter like a simple 2d gpu

@jbmorley yeah we'll need to organize a page for that

another PSA for MNT Pocket Reform w/ i.MX8MPlus WiFi issues: https://community.mnt.re/t/wifi-reception-problem-probably-overheating-wireless-chipset/2273/74

TLDR: adding a thermal pad helps, and one should install wireless-regdb. We'll announce next week a way to request free thermal pads from us that we intend to send in a letter.

@xha works well indeed!

@xha good point, will try that one too

i'm still testing but so far i think that stock imx8mplus wifi issues on pocket really boil down to temperature of the wifi chip (like some users reported in the forum). i'm now doing more long-term testing with another wuerth thermal pad applied on the wifi chip itself.

another imx8mplus pocket reform tip: unfortunately, firefox has pretty bad performance on this chip. to have a decent web browsing experience, i (sigh) have to recommend chromium and, importantly, turn off "graphics acceleration" in settings. etnaviv has some bugs with chromium (or the other way around) that unfortunately never got fixed, and software rendering is mostly faster anyways.