arm-netbook October 2018

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Laptop LCD Touch Pad: Display KB Layout Idea
by Alexander Ross 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

On the laptops lcd touch pad. Here’s a idea for a feature. When leaning new keyboard layout. Say dovrak for example. The trouble is learning where the new keys are. For me at least, one could do with a constant reminder. What if the lcd touch pad displayed the current pressed keys? Maybe on a image of the keyboard, meaning some way of representing where the key you pressed is relative to other keys. So if its the wrong one you can see where the right one is. This info is only displayed while the keyboard is in use. When the touch pad is in use it switches to a relevant display for touch pad use. As for when the user is using not the touch pad nor the keyboard? What then? display keymap? If playing video display: video controls, time left, is internet speed fast enough for this stream? etc.

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Should we support libre.computer's efforts at promoting lima?
by David Niklas 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Are they even talking about lima? Or are they giving us the wool-over-eyes treatment? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/la-frite-open-source-fri… Searching.... Nope, I can't find anything for or against lima. Can anyone else find out? I'm going to try and ask them directly, but evidence would be better. Thanks!

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Re: [Arm-netbook] [Campaign Question] USB-C is used more and more...
by lkcl 15 Oct '18

15 Oct '18

[cc'ing arm-netbooks as this question is best answered there, so that other people benefit from it] On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 11:32 PM Crowd Supply <orders(a)crowdsupply.com> wrote: > > bonzify(a)airmail.cc submitted a question about your project, "Earth-friendly > EOMA68 Computing Devices": > > USB-C is used more and more often in a day to day basis.Thunderbolt-3, HDMI > ports and new tecnologies are frequently being used more often in the > mainstream market. USB C can intagrate these technologies and also repace the > charging port entirely. How come you didn't use USB C for the EOMA68? there is no such thing as a physical item named "an EOMA68", as it is a standard. the *option* to use USB-3 *is* actually on the EOMA68 standard. USB C is NOT part of the EOMA68 standard, because it would be inappropriate to do so. HOWEVER. implementors of base boards are ENTIRELY AT LIBERTY to add a USB C socket on the base board. AND implementors of Cards are ENTIRELY AT LIBERTY to add a USB C socket on the user-facing end of the Card. the reason why USB C was not included in the EOMA68-A20 - the first in a SERIES of Cards is: massive redesign costs would be required to do so. if you have around USD $20,000 spare, anywhere, i am happy to do another SoC Card, one that uses a PMIC that supports USB-C. l.

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Schedule Updates?
by Paul Boddie 09 Oct '18

09 Oct '18

Hello, I was reviewing the last update on Crowd Supply for the EOMA68 campaign [1], and taking information from that and from discussions on this list, it seems that the following timeline was being followed: 15th June: Crowd Supply update, prototype tested, DRAM tested and ordered, HDMI not tested Late July: DRAM manufactured ("about a month to have the 8 Gbit 1600 MHz DDR3 x8 RAM ICs manufactured"), assembly begins (working from "three months after getting the cards back from assembly before shipping begins") Late October: "delivery of the first units" (presumably "delivery" is the same as "shipping", meaning "dispatch" from Crowd Supply) I hope that things have been proceeding as anticipated. August was a quiet month on this list, and I imagine that Luke has been very busy with all his projects, but I wonder if there is any news about whether the DRAM manufacturer came through, whether assembly could start, whether testing might have begun (and was hopefully a success), and so on. I imagine that there is also the awkward matter of getting the boards from China to the US, related bureaucracy, and other complicating factors. Anyway, I hope everything is going well, that Luke isn't overworked, and that I didn't miss something that would have made the current state of the schedule a bit clearer. Paul [1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/2-7-5-samples-rece…

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apple "security" prevents and prohibits repair...
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Oct '18

05 Oct '18

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/10/05/0142226/apples-new-proprietary… *sigh* and tim cook bless him is talking about privacy... it's as if noone listens to him, even inside apple itself...

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