That’s pretty cool. What’s the battery life like on this thing?
randomname01@feddit.nl
on 10 Aug 2023 15:23
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Without ever having used it, I can say with complete confidence that it’s probably bad. It’s not an optimised consumer level device, it’s a product aimed at enthusiasts and tinkerers who want to implement Linux on a new platform and form factor.
janNatan@lemmy.ml
on 10 Aug 2023 12:45
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I think it was MIT, which is basically the same like BSD
gringo_dingo@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2023 13:44
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I think I found my next machine to run Emacs and EXWM
AnotherPerson@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2023 14:07
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I remember getting a PineBook Pro when it came out. Seemed like a great machine but the screen failed in less than a week. Thankfully they refunded me but it was disappointing.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
on 10 Aug 2023 16:24
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Mine is still working. Armbian is great on it, though I still wish I could get hardware video decoding working in-browser. Best I can do right now is GPU OpenGL acceleration, but any site with video maxes out the CPU and kills battery life.
That all said, I love the keyboard on it.
AnotherPerson@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2023 19:12
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Armbian was the most promising when I had mine, but still wasn’t ready. I just couldn’t get into manjaro, but every time I loaded a new OS the screen would die, come back, flciker and a “shadow” around the perimeter of the screen.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
on 10 Aug 2023 20:43
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Hm, sounds like you got unlucky and the display cable died on you
AnotherPerson@lemmy.world
on 10 Aug 2023 21:12
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Yeah it was unfortunate because of their (basically) no returns policy I didn’t want to roll the dice on a second one.
I still use my Pinebook Pro as daily driver (next to a desktop pc) and I‘m actually quit happy with it. It’s not the most powefull machine but it does it‘s job.
Also I never really experimented with all the special distros. Nowadays I just run plane Debian on it and everything seems fine.
Zucca@sopuli.xyz
on 10 Aug 2023 17:26
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Whoa! So RISC-V is already that far? We can have tablets? Nice.
I’m almost in “shut up and take my money” -mode already.
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That’s pretty cool. What’s the battery life like on this thing?
Without ever having used it, I can say with complete confidence that it’s probably bad. It’s not an optimised consumer level device, it’s a product aimed at enthusiasts and tinkerers who want to implement Linux on a new platform and form factor.
Open source processors. What a time to be alive.
Hasn’t ARM always been open source?
No, it’s licensed. RISC-V isn’t necessarily open sourced either. It’s an open standard, but you can develop your own proprietary designs on it.
Yup!
To my understanding RISC-V is like BSD lisenced not GPL.
I think it was MIT, which is basically the same like BSD
I think I found my next machine to run Emacs and EXWM
I remember getting a PineBook Pro when it came out. Seemed like a great machine but the screen failed in less than a week. Thankfully they refunded me but it was disappointing.
Mine is still working. Armbian is great on it, though I still wish I could get hardware video decoding working in-browser. Best I can do right now is GPU OpenGL acceleration, but any site with video maxes out the CPU and kills battery life.
That all said, I love the keyboard on it.
Armbian was the most promising when I had mine, but still wasn’t ready. I just couldn’t get into manjaro, but every time I loaded a new OS the screen would die, come back, flciker and a “shadow” around the perimeter of the screen.
Hm, sounds like you got unlucky and the display cable died on you
Yeah it was unfortunate because of their (basically) no returns policy I didn’t want to roll the dice on a second one.
I still use my Pinebook Pro as daily driver (next to a desktop pc) and I‘m actually quit happy with it. It’s not the most powefull machine but it does it‘s job.
Also I never really experimented with all the special distros. Nowadays I just run plane Debian on it and everything seems fine.
Whoa! So RISC-V is already that far? We can have tablets? Nice.
I’m almost in “shut up and take my money” -mode already.
Does the pinetab v have working WiFi drivers? The arm version doesn’t