:8bit_mario2: Although this book was mostly about Tom Kalinske, who took Sega from the ashes, defeated Nintendo big time, only for Sega's Japanese people to revert it back into ashes, I feel an unexpected respect towards Nintendo now that I know more about them. :1up:
@darth the PineNote is in practice not purchaseable - there was only a single batch made, explicitly intended for kernel/driver devs, released ~2021 and long since sold out.
The next batch won't be released until all the kernel/display bugs are sorted out, which still is still a work in progress as of May 2024, and there's no particular timeline for when it'll be complete. This was also the case 2 years ago.
So tl;dr #PineNote is out of stock and staying that way for who-knows-how-long.
#BOOX uses a big number of #FOSS stuff in their #epaper tablets. I first thought it's just the #Linux#kernel which they don't release the source code. But I've realized they are using many more FOSS stuff. Like the #Android apps from #SimpleMobile which are not #copyleft but if they were, legally, BOOX had to free their source code, too. One might argue what is the difference when they don't release the source codes. The differences come up when BOOX is in a court. #GPL#free_software
I'm not tied to Android yet (#KaiOS is serving me well!) but I'm feeling the pressure for payments, cabs/bikes, and all the cool Android-based #OpenStreetMap contribution tools. The #Palma is tempting.
@louis
I have been extremely happy with my #PineNote. Unlikely to win the FSF imprimatur but the most #librehardware of the choices I know about, by far.
It shipped with a version of Android and stock apps that have been more than adequate for my uses.
The large screen beats the crap out of my old Kindle. Great reading experience. For writing I prefer paper and ink but I confess it is very useful, and quite good UX, for annotating PDFs.
And for software it looks as though community work is getting to where I can try a truly open alternative soon.
This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...
The good news is that Pine is also creating the #PineNote with an eink display, so maybe the creation of an eink #PineTime at some point in the distant future is not completely unrealistic either. Assuming the display is the main thing you miss about it, of course. :)
Is anyone using the @PINE64#PineNote yet?
Is it ready for early adopters, or is it still dev-only status?
It's almost a couple years old now, and I'm not seeing much in the way of status updates AFAICT.
I'm tempted to get a kindle scribe, but dang if I don't want to make Lex Luthor any richer or more powerful. :P
PineTime - a $27 smartwatch that runs open source firmware and software that's easy to flash and easy to modify and tinker with (liliputing.com)
This is the smartwatch I own. True netrunners know that the tech we wear on (or under) our skin is a prime entry vector for ever hungry megacorps to bleed the pulsing data from our digital veins, so having a wearable I have full control over is of paramount importance. I can flash it with new firmware whenever I want, the...