RL_Dane, to linux
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Wow, the @PINE64 turns five in late July.

My own unit turned three quite recently.

I wonder if there's a 3 in the works 😁

tulpa, to fedora
@tulpa@fosstodon.org avatar

I find the contrast between the and developer communities interesting.

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@tulpa

I made the dig because I've heard people claim that Fedora is really independent of RedHat, but I'll believe it when I see it.

And as long as it's dependent on/beholden to I've Been Misled, I won't touch it, even though it seems to have a lot of neat advantages. (I do use it on distrobox on my , though).

msh, to random
@msh@coales.co avatar

So after more than 3 years of beingy primary "daily driver" computerthing my has sadly decided it's PCIe bus is un-trainable and its USB innumerable. Besides that it has been dropped on its corners one too many times (ok maybe a few more than one too many times) and it's aluminium has bent and it's plastic transmogrified into potato crisps.

As such I have fully discombobulated the unit to see if I can make it boot again and perhaps repurpose it's innards as a True or some such thing.

Sure I could order replacements for the broken bits from @PINE64 but that is like over 50% of the thing and TBH I think this plan is more fun and I want something more robust and janky looking

RL_Dane, to random
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

My
2024-03-05 01:40 Battery 0: Full, 100% 0.235W fully-charged
2024-03-05 01:41 Battery 0: Full, 100% 0.459W fully-charged
2024-03-18 12:03 Battery 0: Charging, 55%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.
2024-03-18 12:04 Battery 0: Charging, 55%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.

Me: WiLl NeVeR fUlLy ChArGe!

rl_dane, to debian
@rl_dane@alpha.polymaths.social avatar

Currently bootstrapping onto my / , just so I can hopefully have -mupdf ;)

https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/platforms.html

If this works well, it will be a fantastic secondary package manager for all my debian-based boxes, and a great alternative to the AUR.

cc: @amin

rmader, to random
@rmader@floss.social avatar

After some more debugging, here are two videos proving that / video playback with fullscreen GL/VK overlay works on a and / on / , each maxing out their video decoders with 1080p@60 and 4k@60 respectively.

The message here is: no matter what hardware - if you want to make a video/camera app that needs to be highly efficient, you can do it with a proper, yet still lightweight toolkit now. No need for a custom kms/drm backend.

The GTK4 demo video player on a Raspberry 4, playing BBB. The camera moves over to another screen with Weston debug output, showing that the compositor uses hardware planes, which is needed for optimal playback performance.
The GTK4 demo video player on a Pinebook Pro (using a RK3399 SoC), playing BBB. The camera moves over to another screen with Weston debug output, showing that the compositor uses hardware planes, which is needed for optimal playback performance.

kai, to random
@kai@ajin.la avatar

It's weird how long it has taken me to warm up to the . I have had it for years, but only recently do I feel like it's my go-to portable device.

wholesomedonut, to linuxphones
@wholesomedonut@fosstodon.org avatar

I am at the point where my can more or less serve as a daily driver.

Despite my often curmudgeoning, despite my griping, despite my nitpicking.

I more or less developed an irrational vendetta against this machine,

and I was compelled by nothing other than spite to get this damn thing to work how I wanted.

I'm the boss, dangit. I'm the human. Work how I want you to, machine!

And now it does.

I use XFCE4, installed over , because I love .

8/10

cassidy, to firefox
@cassidy@blaede.family avatar

Today I'm attempting to exclusively use the Pinebook Pro (running Endless OS!) for work, and it has actually gone better than expected. At the same time, dang, we're still lacking in a few ways on ARM; notably, app availability! How is Firefox not available on Flathub for ARM64??

EndlessOS, to linux
@EndlessOS@floss.social avatar

Do you have a Pinebook Pro kicking around?

Endless OS 5.1 is available as a preview release for Pinebook Pro, now with more detailed instructions—including flashing to the internal eMMC! Give it a try and let us know what you think.

https://support.endlessos.org/en/installation/pinebook_pro

rmader, to GNOME
@rmader@floss.social avatar

Regarding the future of video playback in I'd like to add some more context around current developments in , and in a short 🧵

TL;DR: by making use of more modern hardware features we're finally in the position to catch up to other platforms with regards to energy efficiency. So let's do it!

rmader,
@rmader@floss.social avatar

Take for example these examples of a (rk3399 / v4l2 stateless) playing 4k content or the 4b (v4l2 stateful / m2m) playing 1080p@60fps (the limit of the hardware decoder) on a 2560x1440 screen. My videos probably don't fully capture the effect, but especially in the later case the difference is pretty visible). This is using the gtk video player demo with some extra patches and .

A Pinebook Pro with Gnome destkop, with the opaque region overlay on, showing the gtk4 demo video player playing a video. The opaque region is on, showing the difference between composited and pass-trough / direct scanout playback.
A screen connected to a Raspberry Pi with Gnome destkop, with the opaque region overlay on, showing the gtk4 demo video player playing a video. The opaque region is on, showing the difference between composited and pass-trough / direct scanout playback.

atomicpoet, to random

Hey, you know what? I'm actually in the process of uninstalling Chrome right now. I've come to realize that I don't really need it. Plus, if there's a website that requires Chrome, I figure I can do without visiting it.

msh,
@msh@coales.co avatar

@atomicpoet I installed a user-agent switcher/spoofer on for my and honestly since then I have literally never encountered a site that "required" chrome that was non functional after simply disguising myself as a Wintel box running Chrome via fake user-agent.

Yeah sometimes there were cosmetic flaws or somewhat clunky degradations but the essential stuff always works!

"Chrome required" is mostly a sham and enforced by lazy DevOps who couldn't be arsed to test and support their stuff on anything but Chrome.

paradroyd, to retrocomputing
@paradroyd@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Kind of a late night session down in the retro cave tonight. Doing some BBSing and retrogaming as music videos stream from Jellyfin in the background.

Several retro computers, a Pinebook Pro, and a music video playing on a monitor/TV in the background.
My TRS-80 Model 4 and C64 with a music video playing on a TV in the background.

rl_dane, to random
@rl_dane@pixelfed.social avatar

One of the feet on my started slipping and eventually fell off and was lost.

Of course, @PINE64 awesomely provides all kinds of spare parts for their products, including feet, but shipping from Hong Kong was prohibitive.

I looked through the silicone bumpers I had at home, and none were the right thickness, but one of them was just the right diameter.

I then took a smaller bumper and placed that on the larger one, and it formed a perfect facsimile of the original, being the perfect thickness and approximate shape, kind of like a .

My facsimile rubber foot, made from two rubber bumpers of different diameters which I bought from a local hypermarket/supercenter

danct12, to random
@danct12@fosstodon.org avatar

Just finished my laptop desktop customization. I think I'm happy by how it looks.

@PINE64

image/png

petaramesh, to linux French
@petaramesh@piaille.fr avatar

Grâce à @sebsauvage j'ai avec enfin un client pour qui fonctionne à la perfection sous et ça, ça change carrément la vie de mon , et la mienne 😁😁😁👌❤️

Synchro bidirectionnelle, montage de VFS sur le cloud, tout y est 😁

(Comment est-ce que je ne savais pas que ce truc existait ?)

https://rclone.org/

mate, (edited ) to random French
@mate@3615.computer avatar

Je vends mon sur

J'ai une première offre à 3200 g1

https://data.gchange.fr/market/record/AYqdMWKviOTyzWM_1aHi/_share

Remise en mains propres 🤓

@gchange

RL_Dane, to random
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

with a classic skin is giving me serious late-1990s feeeeels. XD

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@RupertReynolds

Oh, an anecdote. I remember rendering a particular scene in the raytracer on that machine circa 1995.
The resolution was somewhere between 640x480 and 1024x768, inclusive.
It took a WEEK to render the scene (drums with a kind of plasma background).

I tried it out on my relatively week ARM and it rendered at 1080p in like three seconds. XD XD XD

RL_Dane, to random
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar 
Wed Sep 6 10:31:36 AM CDT 2023  
Battery 0: Discharging, 48%, 04:54:00 remaining  
(suspended)  
Wed Sep 6 05:56:48 PM CDT 2023  
Battery 0: Discharging, 9%, 02:40:21 remaining

Is anyone getting better suspend than ~ 5%/hour loss on the ?

nutilius,
@nutilius@social.sdf.org avatar

@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane put away disabled (not suspended) and try to start it on the battery after a week 😩🙈

JustineSmithies, to random
@JustineSmithies@fosstodon.org avatar

Going to run fwupdmgr update on my ThinkPad Gen 1 P14s that's got an encrypted filesystem so fingers crossed I'm still here after hitting the enter key. 🙃

JustineSmithies,
@JustineSmithies@fosstodon.org avatar

@ukscone Hahaha. I've obvs my ThinkPad and my a random Toshiba laptop for testing stuff on. I've also 2 pi 4's as servers and a full blown server too. Oh lets not forget my and and my and 6T 😂
I even bought a Pico just so I could build my own TKL board with oled running on kmk. I just can't help myself.

jalcine, to random
@jalcine@todon.eu avatar

Wait wait wait I have time to finally upgrade my laptop holy shit lol

jalcine,
@jalcine@todon.eu avatar

Oh. I'm a fool. Lol, I definitely used the install image for a server on here. Hahahahahaha.

Now I gotta grab my to download and image an actual GUI

RL_Dane, to linux
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Another happy day (especially now that I've got my back online... freak VPN issue)

Total Download Size: 70.52 MiB  
Total Installed Size: 391.75 MiB  
Net Upgrade Size: -0.31 MiB

(I know "proper' Mastodon doesn't support markdown yet, but some clients interpret it, anyway. It's weird)

RL_Dane, to openSUSE
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

Should I distro hop my work (!) machine to Tumbleweed (and fight with its lack of polkit setup and "hurr durr durr just use the root password" attitude),

-- or --

Should I make a fair attempt at troubleshooting the problems I'm having with ?

I'm getting some strange behavior with , , and .

My login (selecting Plasma Wayland session) dumps me into an Xorg screen with 3 xterms. I then have to 'sudo systemctl restart sddm' and log in again...etc..

RL_Dane,
@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org avatar

@e33io

I can live with sudo not being installed by default, but trying to get polkit and all those moving parts working is a bit above my pay grade right now. I really need to get some more time to delve into it.

I also need to troubleshoot my . It's suddenly not able to get online, even through it's on the wifi and has grabbed an ip. I can't even ping the router, and the firewall's off.

Weirdness. :D

dedsyn4ps3, to NixOS
@dedsyn4ps3@fosstodon.org avatar

Finally took some time to bust out the @PINE64 and have some fun! I'd planned on flashing onto it, but everything I'd book from the image on my NVMe, I'd go through the whole rebuild and switch but it continued failing to boot into the new build... 🤔

Next best option, fresh install an based system with great development record for the PBP, , and manage everything with . Turns out option #2 is still pretty awesome! 😎🤘 :manjaro: :nixos:

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