lil touch test (finally found the i2c usb adapter while cleaning up forsaken corners of the studio with @npub12gl2...frt9)
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.
MNT Pocket Reform Sleeve - MNT Research Shop
Sleeve–protect your MNT Pocket Reform Keyboard in style!
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MNT Pocket Reform Battery Holders - MNT Research Shop
Robust replacement battery holders for MNT Pocket Reform.
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MNT Pocket Reform Port Covers - MNT Research Shop
Replacement port covers for the MNT Pocket Reform laptop.
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MNT Pocket Reform Headset/Switch Board 2.0 - MNT Research Shop
The latest version of the headset board for MNT Pocket Reform incl. Wi-Fi card slot and standby switch.
 the sleeve and improved battery holders were designed by @npub12gl2...frt9, and [@holo_memory](
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 ) did the photography and shop pages. image
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) image
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 interested in real people's art and struggles, because i can emotionally connect only to real people, i mean that is why we do art, writing, film, games etc, not to look at machine kitsch
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 over the network (tftp) and into a busybox/toybox/static binaries environment to avoid boot times. i then figured out that suspend to s2idle works with that kernel and added the missing code to dts and fw to make it wake via the keyboard.
here is a rare interview based article on MNT Reform and open hardware in general, in german but i think modern browsers have a built-in babelfish. i said more political things that didn't make the cut (about surveillance tech industry (chat control, thorn etc), right-wing tech, our products being reproducible after our lifetime and not depending on unique industrial processes (but more widely available ones)), but it's a good explainer for folks who aren't as plugged in
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Eine neue Nachhaltigkeit: Warum die Computerwelt mit Open-Hardware grüner wäre – Lucie Hartmann von MNT Research im Gespräch
Stell dir vor, dein Laptop wäre ein Blumenbeet. Prozessor, Tastatur Bildschirm – alles wären Pflanzen, die du selbst züchten und beliebig aust...
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PSA MNT Pocket Reform: don't `apt upgrade` right now! there's some gdm issue (login screen doesn't show up) that we're looking into. (rather, @npub1mzhx...dh9t is looking into it at the moment, i'll try later today)
my work sometimes feels like trying to very slowly and exhaustingly transition over like 10 years from brutalist radical DIY laptop kit for the post-apocalypse to a not-too-weird-looking, hardware and software bug-free, always reliable, well-supported, performant, silent, secure and still repairable and open source laptop that people with a shopping list of specific requirements would find acceptable enough, while not selling out and still surviving somehow
absolutely incredible detailed data collection and visualization of the (potential) runtimes of 4 different MNT Reform processor modules, by @npub1mzhx...dh9t
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Comparing battery runtime of RK3588, A311D, i.MX8MQ, i.MX8M+ and LS1028A
This post is for those who wonder how the different SoMs supported by MNT compare against each other in term of how much power they draw. This is n...