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For a bit more context, this is not just a photo montage, Factorio really runs on the rk3588. Here are videos:...

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

Purple Reform Next running Factorio? The factory of open hardware laptops must grow! 🏭 https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

Purple Reform Next running Factorio? The factory of open hardware laptops must grow! 🏭
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

What's under the tree this year? It's Debian Trixie ("testing") installed via a (patched) debian-installer netboot image...

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. 🎄

TIL: in C++, instead of &&, ||, ! you can use "and", "or", "not", respectively. This is in the...

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.

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...

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.

Dear fediparents, can you recommend a device for children to entertain themselves with audio/music it plays? Anything with a closed-source...

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!

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...

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!!

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...

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!

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...

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

I did not expect that the MNT Reform with Banana Pi A311D was actually able to allow playing (with low graphics settings) Torchlight 2...

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.

Today I turned my custom 3D printed wired standalone MNT Keyboard 3.0+Trackball 2.0 combo from...

Today I turned my custom 3D printed wired standalone MNT Keyboard 3.0+Trackball 2.0 combo from https://floss.social/@josch/111658676101676834 into a wireless external keyboard+trackball device. It is connected via bluetooth using the BT-600 adapter from http://handheldsci.com/kb/ and uses a USB power bank. The BT-600 apparently happily handles being connected to a USB-hub which has mouse and keyboard connected to it. The photos are taken with HDR so that it's possible to read the very bright screen of the BT-600.

tuigreet is now working on Debian Bookworm thanks to the work of Blair Noctis who re-implemented the core of rust-i18n-embed which does not...

tuigreet is now working on Debian Bookworm thanks to the work of Blair Noctis who re-implemented the core of rust-i18n-embed which does not exist in Debian Bookworm: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tuigreet/-/merge_requests/1

@mntmn (this is the part where i hand you the perfect sell-out opportunity 😉 )

@mntmn (this is the part where i hand you the perfect sell-out opportunity 😉 )

MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 group photo is now on the www.debian.org front page (the second photo of the slide-show).But hold on! I need to know...

MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 group photo is now on the www.debian.org front page (the second photo of the slide-show).

But hold on! I need to know where I can get this amazing black T-shirt with the fabulous pink zigzag logo that the person on the bottom left is wearing!!

I'm downloading all Release and Packages files for all suites, architectures and areas for all timestamps from snapshot.debian.org to...

I'm downloading all Release and Packages files for all suites, architectures and areas for all timestamps from snapshot.debian.org to investigate the problem size caused by https://bugs.debian.org/1072205 I'm sticking the data into git, one commit per snapshot timestamp. 13G got downloaded already by my script and git stores those in less than 800M. Here is the development of the git repository size over time as my script creates new commits and git runs `git gc` semi-regularly to compress everything.

Personal body weightIt seems that one week at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 made me loose around one kilogram of weight? Either a diet on Döner...

Personal body weight

It seems that one week at MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 made me loose around one kilogram of weight? Either a diet on Döner Kebab and Vita Cola is really strong or they are putting something in the drinking water over there. 😆

For anybody wanting to track their weight I can highly recommend `nom`. Entering your weight is as easy as running `nom weight XXX` in your terminal once per day and you get very pretty graphs. It also allows tracking calorie intake. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nom

Turns out that at https://fkcaps.com/custom/ one can buy custom color and custom label low-profile keycaps for the kailh choc brown switches...

Turns out that at https://fkcaps.com/custom/ one can buy custom color and custom label low-profile keycaps for the kailh choc brown switches of my MNT Reform open hardware laptop. I might've gone a bit overboard but I really like how colorful my keyboard is now and how easy it is to make the Reform my very own custom computer. 💻 ❤️

@bwh I totally forgot to @-mention you in my original post, ben -- i only discovered right now that you were on fedi, sorry! 🙃 Looking...

@bwh I totally forgot to @-mention you in my original post, ben -- i only discovered right now that you were on fedi, sorry! 🙃 Looking forward to meeting you again at another debconf! 😀

During my last day on MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 we upgraded the MNT Reform with i.MX8MQ of @debacle from pre-sysimage-v3 (with kernel 5.12 and...

During my last day on MiniDebConf Berlin 2024 we upgraded the MNT Reform with i.MX8MQ of @debacle from pre-sysimage-v3 (with kernel 5.12 and single partition layout) to the current sysimage-v4 style with modern u-boot (including display support), rootfs on encrypted NVMe and /boot with kernel 6.8.9 and initrd on eMMC.

MNT Reform meetup with @debacle during MiniDebconf Berlin 2024 🥳

MNT Reform meetup with @debacle during MiniDebconf Berlin 2024 🥳