@mntmn@sontags oh sweet that answers my question. Any idea what the battery life would be like compared to the current module in the pocket reform?
Maybe I’ll be able to buy the RK3588 upgrade for my pocket reform around the holidays once I am used to the Pocket Reform.
I can’t wait to slap a cell phone modem in and do work from anywhere. I haven’t been this excited to use and review a product since I got my hands on my @purism Librem 14 with Qubes OS!
i have word that the first 18 MNT Pocket Reforms have started shipping to backers (non-hyper, black case, white kailh choc switches). anyone got a notification?
also, we have packed another shipment of 30 Pocket Reforms that's going out on tuesday (after customs clearance). that one also contains devices with Red Pro switches.
@mntmn I think first time I saw something like that on Pebble watch back then. If I remember correctly it was LCD with transreflective layers behind and state memory for saving battery life.
after a lot of trial and error and reverse engineering of a hdmi adapter from the seller i got the alternative display panel for pocket reform up and running today, finally. this was hard because docs were severely limited and @timonsku and me were extremely puzzled why nothing was working. in the end the escape clock frequency was too high, setting it to 24MHz worked.
@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... :/
Microsoft suddenly going to town again with ARM/qualcomm surely will be good for us in terms of more arm64 software compat and Linux mainlining efforts for Qualcomm hw.
also, people who are tired of all these AI anti-features can be sure that the MNT Reform family will be free of that stuff.
@mntmn I wonder if any of these high-end non-Apple ARM chips will be available for "mortals" to buy and design hardware around, or this will just remain yet another walled garden.
here's the first demo i've seen so far of the upcoming toponaming (topological renaming?) fix for FreeCAD that has been in the works for a while now. i think it's gonna be a big deal in terms of FreeCAD usability https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvRpOzig6D4
done with the second revision of the RK3588 module for MNT Reform (and Pocket Reform as soon as there are DSI display drivers mainlined). i've been running the first rev in my laptop for weeks (months? lost track of time on this one). this rev has a bunch of fixes and new stuff:
—"wifi/bt" connector to support any kind of off-board sdio/uart/usb module for wifi/bt or other things
—lpc spi connection for system controller
—hdmi fixes (4k@60 works now!)
—extra sai audio lines for phone/modem