[2026-04-17T13:41:55Z] <midfavila> https://www.crowdsupply.com/morpheans/sharpikeebo
[2026-04-17T13:42:04Z] <midfavila> i have no money and i must consoom
[2026-04-17T13:43:08Z] <midfavila> i might pick up one of these just to use until the beepis board is finished. the display is the real killer in terms of price so i can just scrap this and reuse parts later on
[2026-04-17T13:44:42Z] <midfavila> the video they made is a bit silly though lol
[2026-04-17T14:00:01Z] <midfavila> then again looking at the git repo maybe not
[2026-04-17T14:49:56Z] <sad_plan> ill give them bonus points for the choice of color of the pcb. not that this maters, but I like it
[2026-04-17T14:50:06Z] <sad_plan> was it bad after all?
[2026-04-17T14:50:16Z] <sad_plan> also, yes the video was rather silly
[2026-04-17T15:30:31Z] <midfavila> sad_plan: there are some people talking about issues with the revision of the hardware they got, but that might be early backers getting some sort of beta revision instead of the final revision that's being sent out now
[2026-04-17T15:30:40Z] <midfavila> need to look into it more
[2026-04-17T15:31:12Z] <midfavila> that's what i'll probably spend today doing. that and looking at how sqfmi handled the low resolution of the display
[2026-04-17T15:31:22Z] <midfavila> 8x8 would only get you a 40x25 terminal on that display
[2026-04-17T15:31:45Z] <midfavila> i've used half-width fonts before and i don't mind them too much, but 4x8 on a 2.7" display could be wonky
[2026-04-17T15:31:58Z] <midfavila> that said, 20 hours of active runtime is real nice...
[2026-04-17T15:32:27Z] <midfavila> man i just wish clockwork would release the source code for their D1 module's software
[2026-04-17T15:33:03Z] <midfavila> if they did i could pretty easily patch modern replacements for a lot of the older stuff they use and at least rebuild the kernel to be a little more optimised for the device
[2026-04-17T15:33:34Z] <midfavila> people have written to them in the past but they've made no serious effort to release their modifications even though that violates the GPL which covers much of the software they patched, including linux
[2026-04-17T15:51:23Z] <midfavila> oh wait no
[2026-04-17T15:51:25Z] <midfavila> 3x8
[2026-04-17T15:51:27Z] <midfavila> damn
[2026-04-17T15:51:33Z] <midfavila> that'll be challenging
[2026-04-17T16:02:04Z] <midfavila> https://moonbench.xyz/projects/tiny-pixel-art-fonts/
[2026-04-17T16:03:20Z] <midfavila> https://moonbench.xyz/assets/images/projects/tiny_fonts/3x6_a_variable_drop.png
[2026-04-17T16:03:24Z] <midfavila> this could be usable
[2026-04-17T16:13:38Z] <midfavila> https://apicici.itch.io/uncle-lee-3x6
[2026-04-17T17:28:43Z] <sad_plan> kinda curious about the reasoning behind clockwork not releasing what shouldve been released though.
[2026-04-17T17:29:15Z] <sad_plan> the batterylife on this thing is quite impressive though for a linux machine.
[2026-04-17T17:52:49Z] <midfavila> the sharpikeebo?
[2026-04-17T17:53:15Z] <midfavila> i mean it makes sense, the only significant ("significant") power draw would be the pi zero 2w
[2026-04-17T17:53:18Z] <midfavila> emphasis on the w
[2026-04-17T17:53:37Z] <midfavila> memory LCDs only use a marginal amount of power
[2026-04-17T17:55:02Z] <midfavila> combined with a high capacity battery and a lack of backlight/frontlight and i can see it idling/at low usage lasting for 19-20 hours on one charge
[2026-04-17T17:55:22Z] <midfavila> with a properly optimised kernel and a slimmed down OS you could probably get a full day 
[2026-04-17T17:56:18Z] <midfavila> as for clockwork, as far as i can tell it's just negligence 
[2026-04-17T17:56:41Z] <midfavila> there was a thread where they pointed someone at a git repo that contains like a partial patchset or something for the kernel but it doesn't even apply cleanly on the relevant release
[2026-04-17T17:57:01Z] <midfavila> honestly i kind of fucking hate that they released a cm4 adapter 
[2026-04-17T17:57:08Z] <midfavila> or cm3 or whatever
[2026-04-17T17:57:27Z] <midfavila> because it made all the fucking PLEBBITORS flood the forums with their heckin' soyberdecks
[2026-04-17T17:57:30Z] <midfavila> and it's like
[2026-04-17T17:57:30Z] <midfavila> fuck off
[2026-04-17T17:57:33Z] <midfavila> no
[2026-04-17T17:57:40Z] <midfavila> you aren't allowed to enjoy my stupid little handheld computers >:C
[2026-04-17T17:58:19Z] <midfavila> it's legitimately frustrating though because the device launched with two ARM modules and a RISCV module and they were like, actually unique designs
[2026-04-17T17:58:29Z] <midfavila> and now everyone just shoves a fucking pi in it 
[2026-04-17T17:58:40Z] <midfavila> so there's zero development resources allocated to the r01, a04, and a06 SoMs
[2026-04-17T18:00:01Z] <midfavila> like i appreciate that the rasp pi is easy to use because it's a full decade or so on from the effective standardisation of the pi ecosystem
[2026-04-17T18:00:06Z] <midfavila> but also it's just that
[2026-04-17T18:00:08Z] <midfavila> an ecosystem
[2026-04-17T18:00:10Z] <midfavila> not a standard
[2026-04-17T18:00:18Z] <midfavila> it's a little fucking box that they trap you in 
[2026-04-17T18:01:21Z] <midfavila> so now that higher prices are becoming an issue especially with ARM chips there's no easy way to just drop in an alternative unless it's *specifically* designed as a raspbian-running drop-in replacement
[2026-04-17T18:01:44Z] <midfavila> but even then a ton of these SoMs/SBCs require blobs or out-of-tree kernel patches or whatever and gah
[2026-04-17T18:52:12Z] <sad_plan> yeah the sharpikeebo. comparing it to the sqfmi or the similar ones, its pretty damn amazing if you ask me. iirc, beepy and simiar ones only has like 5-8hrs of batterylife...
[2026-04-17T18:53:37Z] <sad_plan> I get your frustration here, I really do. you wanted something cool, something perhaps unique even. but no, everyone goes muuh rpiiiiiiiis
[2026-04-17T18:53:54Z] <midfavila> it's not even just about muh heckin cybertoys
[2026-04-17T18:54:10Z] <midfavila> it's about building a resilient hobbyist scene
[2026-04-17T18:54:36Z] <midfavila> if you have one platform that everything is based around then when that platfom becomes difficult or impossible to access for a lot of people, the scene dies
[2026-04-17T18:54:48Z] <midfavila> i mean aren't rasp pis like 300 bucks now or something???
[2026-04-17T18:55:00Z] <sad_plan> sure, but this isnt rpi's fault
[2026-04-17T18:55:02Z] <sad_plan> correct
[2026-04-17T18:55:12Z] <sad_plan> theyre mad expensive now lol
[2026-04-17T18:55:13Z] <midfavila> it's nobody's "fault"
[2026-04-17T18:55:14Z] <midfavila> it's capitalism
[2026-04-17T18:55:32Z] <sad_plan> sure it is. its AI's fault for hogging all the ram and storage
[2026-04-17T18:55:45Z] <midfavila> i don't see how it isn't lol
[2026-04-17T18:55:47Z] <sad_plan> well, the companies that own the AI shit that is obviously
[2026-04-17T18:56:04Z] <midfavila> you can blame AI all you want but the reality is that that's also the fault of the market
[2026-04-17T18:56:05Z] <sad_plan> so, in a sense, perhaps its just capitalism.....
[2026-04-17T18:56:12Z] <midfavila> it's all capitalism all the way down
[2026-04-17T18:56:20Z] * sad_plan ooofs
[2026-04-17T18:56:23Z] <midfavila> like easily 90% of the time when something goes wrong
[2026-04-17T18:56:31Z] <midfavila> libertarians eternally btfo'd
[2026-04-17T19:00:22Z] <sad_plan> well, sure
[2026-04-17T19:25:36Z] <midfavila> https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
[2026-04-17T19:25:43Z] <midfavila> god damnit rsync takes in llmshit now
[2026-04-17T19:25:55Z] <midfavila> sloppers need to fuck OFF
[2026-04-17T19:27:36Z] <midfavila> djikstra is spinning in his grave so fast he could power the entire fucking planet 
[2026-04-17T19:27:48Z] <midfavila> dijkstra even
[2026-04-17T19:38:22Z] <midfavila> according to that list, every single major browser engine accepts llmshit too... eugh
[2026-04-17T19:39:41Z] <midfavila> they got yash too..!
[2026-04-17T19:42:03Z] <midfavila> *and* nextcloud!
[2026-04-17T19:45:21Z] <midfavila> fuck going off this list i'm going to have to try and switch to mir 
[2026-04-17T19:45:40Z] <midfavila> or wait until hyperbsd ends up being a thing...
[2026-04-17T19:48:29Z] <midfavila> and *git* too
[2026-04-17T19:48:35Z] <midfavila> absolute disaster
[2026-04-17T19:48:47Z] <midfavila> it's all over, chuddites