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Written by josch on 2024-12-27 at 22:29

For a bit more context, this is not just a photo montage, Factorio really runs on the rk3588. Here are videos: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/113386088280317754

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Written by josch on 2024-12-27 at 22:24

Purple Reform Next running Factorio? The factory of open hardware laptops must grow! 🏭 :openhardware:

https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

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Written by josch on 2024-12-24 at 07:24

What's under the tree this year? It's Debian Trixie ("testing") installed via a (patched) debian-installer netboot image on the MNT Reform open hardware laptop! Yes, this still requires a custom kernel and some quirks in user-space but instead of being upset that vanilla Debian doesn't work (yet) maybe this can make you feel motivated to help upstreaming the remaining few patches to Linux. Thank you and happy holidays, in case you are celebrating over the next couple of days. 🎄

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Written by josch on 2024-12-18 at 11:12

TIL: in C++, instead of &&, ||, ! you can use "and", "or", "not", respectively. This is in the language since C++98 and documented in https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/operator_alternative It also works in C if you #include <iso646.h>. The editors I tried have syntax highlighting for it as well. This blew my mind today. Sharing this here because I think that writing "and" and "or" is much, much more pretty and easier to read than && and || and maybe you also have never heard of this before.

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Written by josch on 2024-11-09 at 12:47

I'm a little bit proud of my hörbert mod. This is a portable MP3 player with a big and loud speaker, playing songs from an SD-card by pushing one of nine colorful buttons. My daughter is a big fan of the Disney movie Frozen and I found a second-hand metal box into which the hörbert circuit board and speaker fit juuust barely. The result is now even more compact than the original. This project was made more easy because the manufacturer of hörbert releases some of their hardware schematics.

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Written by josch on 2024-10-16 at 10:59

Dear fediparents, can you recommend a device for children to entertain themselves with audio/music it plays? Anything with a closed-source ecosystem based on DRM or tracking is a no-go.

In search for a solution I stumbled across https://en.hoerbert.com/ which seems to tick all my boxes except that it's not open hardware and its ESP32 firmware is propr. as well. But they publish schematics as CC-BY and sell DIY kits. The Qt client is GPL on github and supports linux.

Other ideas? Boosts welcome!

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Written by josch on 2024-09-15 at 14:07

Dear fedi-parents, do any of you maybe have any suggestion for a children's book (for a 3.5 year old) which shows them a non-heteronormative family in a natural, friendly and educative way? Despite our gay neighbors, our little-one insists that a family has to have a mother, father and child. Anything with an ISBN that can be bought in central europe is fine. Language can be either German, English or Spanish. Boosts welcome. Thank you!! :heart_pride:

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Written by josch on 2024-09-13 at 10:22

I know I'm late, but only recently I read https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ and today I finally migrated my gitea instance at gitlab.mister-muffin.de (the subdomain name tells you where I'm coming from) to #Forgejo. Luckily my gitea installation was still at v1.21 and thus migrating from gitea to forgejo was as simple as switching out the gitea binary for the forgejo binary. It was literally only that. Thank you @forgejo!

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Written by josch on 2024-08-29 at 13:23

Debian :debian: is providing funding for an MNT Reform with RK3588 so that I can improve Debian support on that platform and can provide long term stable support for it for Trixie and beyond. Thank you for this opportunity!

For full transparency, my funding request for Debian sponsorship can be found as PDF here:

https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.pdf

Or here in HTML form:

https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.html

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Written by josch on 2024-08-28 at 17:08

I did not expect that the MNT Reform with Banana Pi A311D was actually able to allow playing (with low graphics settings) Torchlight 2 smoothly! 🥳 I learned about the minigalaxy software today (from the Debian repos) and downloading the game was a breeze with it.

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