@bjst rockbox is fine, but it's not really the right choice as a first-party firmware imo. some examples: there's no wifi or bt support (and the effort to add them would be large), the theming system is a mess, the codebase really hasn't aged particularly well (it's plain old c, and there's a ton of legacy platform-specific # ifdefs).
ultimately i don't feel i can sell something advertised as "easily hackable!" when the primary firmware, frankly, sucks to hack on. i dream of a better firmware.
using linux will save u from microsoft recall, but only in the sense that microsoft's best engineers can't work out how to record your screen in wayland
@jacqueline random question - what does it do with higher res files? I.e. 96kHz. Just doesn’t play them? Probably easy to down sample before loading but just curious.
@trisweb right now i think we try to play them (with a wired output, anyway), but i don't have a lot of confidence that they play smoothly. we already have resampling implemented, so we could try downsampling on-device, but doing it in advance is probably best, yeah.
@jacqueline Over here in DE they had this one popular book of super grim cautionary tales that they used to tell children to scare them into being nice (Link below for context). Henry W. Ott's Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering is basically that but for EEs.
@jacqueline One time I made an antenna… I'm not even an electrical engineer… I wasn't doing electrical engineering. I was trying to play guitar. I was trying to plug in my guitar into an amplifier and suddenly bam, Spanish talk radio
i don't want to read blog posts about whether or not open source has impacted prusa's revenue.
i want to read blog posts about how choosing to grow a hobby into a 700+ person company turns you into the sort of person who cares about the revenue impact of open source.