Hello,
I finally got round to writing a blog post about the campaign which you can view at the following location:
http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=1314
I've tried to keep up with some of the discussions, and I hope I've managed to avoid misrepresenting anyone's position, but I felt that having read some of the misunderstandings around EOMA68 (some potentially deliberate, I suspect), it would be nice to discuss them all in a single article and to make people aware that the campaign is still taking place and worth supporting.
Paul
P.S. I think I'd feel like a narcissist for replying to the thread bearing my own name, but I'd still like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who sent their good wishes at that time - Luke, Manuel, Alexander, Russell, plus any others - and special thanks are due to my brother for supporting me in what has been a difficult time. Hopefully, like EOMA68, I have recovered from adversity (or have at least gone a fair way down the path of recovery) and will be able to participate a bit more in future.
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Paul Boddie paul@boddie.org.uk wrote:
Hello,
eyy, you're back!
I finally got round to writing a blog post about the campaign which you can view at the following location:
ahh magic
own name, but I'd still like to take the opportunity to thank everyone who sent their good wishes at that time - Luke, Manuel, Alexander, Russell, plus any others - and special thanks are due to my brother for supporting me in what has been a difficult time. Hopefully, like EOMA68, I have recovered from adversity (or have at least gone a fair way down the path of recovery) and will be able to participate a bit more in future.
take it easy paul - there's more important things than computers. no, really :)
l.
Very well written, Paul.
I submitted it to Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314468
Matt
I submitted it to diaspora* and gnusocial.
https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/5139637 https://loadaverage.org/notice/8435094
Wolfgang
Am 18.08.2016 um 19:37 schrieb Matt Campbell:
Very well written, Paul.
I submitted it to Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314468
Matt
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thanks matt. also thank you wolfgang --- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Matt Campbell mattcampbell@pobox.com wrote:
Very well written, Paul.
I submitted it to Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314468
Matt
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
thanks matt. also thank you wolfgang
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fsf-fsfe-and-off-gr... you've all seen these before but i wanted to post them to the "updates" list
l.
Thanks, I had a brief look at the video (but gotta save on bandwidth). With only a number of days to go before the campaign closes, I hope the project gets to see the light of day (true, I missed the light of day working :))
@Paul - hope you're feeling better and have a full recovery. Liked the write up. (It's funny that people argue the things that don't matter like easy measurables[1] like MHz and GHz, but miss the important things. (Of course, this is still a difficult thing to argue with most folk as they might not be the kinds of people who buy stuff, develop an unmet need in a particular product (whether a camera, watch or whatever)).
Russell... [1] Actually, if I could remember the source of the quote I'd provide it, but the whole point has a related idea that's embedded in maths (and therefore made its way into computing): reduce the problem and solve a simpler problem instead. Like, if someone asks you, how are you? That's a really difficult question, and sure you could write a whole manual about how to ask and then answer that question. But you could instead decide the answer based on whether you had a good coffee or whether or not it's Monday, etc. (In so doing, you've just solved/picked a different problem answer). Like the quote: "Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You've solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve." (Alan Perlis)
On 18/08/2016, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
thanks matt. also thank you wolfgang
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/fsf-fsfe-and-off-gr... you've all seen these before but i wanted to post them to the "updates" list
l.
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Russell Hyer russell.hyer@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, I had a brief look at the video (but gotta save on bandwidth). With only a number of days to go before the campaign closes, I hope the project gets to see the light of day (true, I missed the light of day working :))
@Paul - hope you're feeling better and have a full recovery. Liked the write up. (It's funny that people argue the things that don't matter like easy measurables[1] like MHz and GHz, but miss the important things.
is only 500 mhz (it's an AR9331 - which is RYF Endorseable!) and yet runs a full GNU/Linux distro.
l.
Wow, thanks for that; that looks like it could work well in one of my computer watch projects :)
I really should upgrade my seiko computer watch :) (The new ones are newer but worse, since those are specific purpose computers! Oh, here's my Monday watch :))
Russell If days were numbered, I'd guess it's time...
On 18/08/2016, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net wrote:
crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 10:36 PM, Russell Hyer russell.hyer@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, I had a brief look at the video (but gotta save on bandwidth). With only a number of days to go before the campaign closes, I hope the project gets to see the light of day (true, I missed the light of day working :))
@Paul - hope you're feeling better and have a full recovery. Liked the write up. (It's funny that people argue the things that don't matter like easy measurables[1] like MHz and GHz, but miss the important things.
is only 500 mhz (it's an AR9331 - which is RYF Endorseable!) and yet runs a full GNU/Linux distro.
l.
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2016-08-18 16:16 Paul Boddie:
Hello,
I finally got round to writing a blog post about the campaign which you can view at the following location:
Hey Paul, great to see you back.
And with an amazing post, no less ;-)
Cheers.
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