lucie lukas "minute" hartmann

is there already an fpga pcie card that's meant to be programmed while sitting in its host, by its host, and has some facility to pipe i.e. a framebuffer back to the host? i'd like to have this for in-computer fpga emulation (yeah yeah, no semantics please) of retro and other systems. like, in a […]

a big table with lots of purple pcbs lined up. in the back looms a desktop reform showing testing instructions on screen

RCORE RK3588 testing prep!

sudden flashback to DVI-I and the little cross/blade thing in the connectors

we launched 4 little products in the MNT shop today, 3 of them are spare parts for MNT Pocket Reform and 1 is a new *iridescent/holo fabric* version of the MNT Reform Sleeve!

1. https://shop.mntre.com/products/mnt-pocket-reform-sleeve
2 […]

(among other things, ordered a minsforum deg1 oculink dock, SFX power supply, and various oculink breakouts)

@wolf480pl update: my ING DIBA app very surprisingly works

seeing the play store on the desktop and realizing how jarring it is to see all this AI and ad/crapware makes me wanna wear a hazmat suit oof. when i enter "adobe" there are like _3_ different AI apps from adobe, whatever happened to the computer industry...

wow, i wanted to show a cursed thing and be like "haha microsoft excel on pocket reform" but it seems like they don't even have a free version anymore, it's now mandatory subscription? what a joke :D

@wolf480pl so far no discernible catch. but afaik there's still safetynet so banking apps won't work

oh that's actually a google thing https://www.google.com/android/uncertified

the manual is like, ah, not play certified? no problem, just `sudo waydroid shell -- sh -c "sqlite3 /data/data/*/*/gservices.db 'select * from main where name = \"android_id\";'"`

android/lineage "about phone" saying the phone is an MNT Pocket Reform with RCORE RK3588 Module

kind of cursed! (but it's just waydroid, which is... extremely snappy nowadays? i.e. it's a container for android running on the linux desktop, like an app for running android apps)

heh, barebox has a web based demo https://www.barebox.org/demo/?graphic=0

@danct12 hey do i misremember or didn't you have a uboot branch with vop2 working with rk3588?

PSA on RK3588 based MNT Reform / MNT Pocket Reform, check if you have "pmull aes sha1 sha2" in the output if you do "cat /proc/cpuinfo". if not, that means cryptography will be slower than it should be (incl disk encryption). this seems to be caused by uboot/tf-a version. the fix:

`sudo […]

"nala" seems to be a neat colorful alternative to "apt" and can update the package index and install your package in one command ("sudo nala install --update mypackage")

@whitequark yeah apparently most people buy the combo tabs and so the market for the separate liquids has shrunk

@whitequark (deleted previous response because i misread) dishwasher fluid yeah. a lot of people recommend that, but it's supposedly more and more rare in shops. will see

@whitequark ok i've been using it for 5 years without salt, my lower korb is falling apart from rust (never had this with the bosch in the company), and recently i used "frosch" tabs instead of "finish" and that was a big mistake i think, the inside of dishwasher is now covered in white powdery goo

@krono @whitequark yeah this really makes a lot of cognitive dissonance for me

@whitequark ok so that salt is really just very pure sodium chloride? (now i must know if it can be eaten)

@whitequark sooo... should i use the separate salt, or is that even damaging when using a fancy multifunction tab

split screen, left showing water chemical analysis in berlin and on the right side a convoluted guide for setting the water hardness of my dishwasher incl a table of water hardness with 4 different units to measure it, mapping to button/led indications and amount of special salt consumed

yes, people sometimes complain that they have to type `apt` commands on debian linux but have you tried correctly setting up the weird dishwasher in my apartment? (and also to get a replacement geschirrkorb for it, argh)

earlier today i reproduced running an amdgpu (polaris10) as eGPU on MNT Reform with RK3588 over PCIe breakout, something i didn't expect to become possible. i also got a glimpse of sway working (instead of just kmscube) but my cables are too wonky for a […]

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boring and obvious take, but i find AI stuff only interesting when it fails in hilarious or dangerous ways, and i find grifters and snake-oil salesmen fascinating in a crime-drama kind of way. i'll never respect AI output as a creative work because it's just random machine garbage and i'm only […]

i tried this with the normal kernel (and modified dtb and fw) on my pocket reform and it didn't immediately work (couldn't wake), so will look into that later. i think that at least s2idle is attainable. deep sleep doesn't work but that might be because of TF-A issues.

yesterday i set up an environment for faster kernel development iteration (esp. for rk3588). it builds a monolithic kernel using the patchstack we have for debian kernel version, but on a real git checkout. i can boot the kernel+dtb directly after compiling […]

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have to set up a pocket reform test farm to chase a hard to reproduce reset bug, but also have to finish final version of some reform next pcbs (port boards), but also have to make progress on qcs6490 module. somebody help me budget this

@geesawra.industries only if you want to

this interview article with me now also has an english version, appreciated: https://en.reset.org/why-the-computer-world-would-be-greener-with-open-hardware-in-conversation-with-lucie-hartmann-from-mnt-research/