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    E-ink Screen

    Pretty much my entire 45+ year career has been as a service tech for some company or other mostly driving sometimes getting flown to sites... to me radio is more distracting than audiobooks. currently a few chaptes into Glasshouse by Stross after finishing Accelerando last week. i do over an...
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    E-ink Screen

    To be honest my kindle battery has gone flat. I hardly use it anymore. I drive a lot as a service technician so i have listened to ebooks for the last 4 years at least! I think i have "read" over 2 or 3 hundred books in that time. lol all of Asimov ,Heinlein , Prachett , Jordan , Harry Harrison...
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    E-ink Screen

    480 x 640 resolution is not great. it compares itself to a Kindle gen 11 paperwhite , well "The all-new Kindle has a 6-inch E INK Carta touchscreen with a resolution of 1072×1448 with 300 PPI" . this thing is also twice the price almost. i like the concept but we are back in Pyra territory, a...
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    E-ink Screen

    because it is like a book. you read one page then the other then both screens refresh. in effect you only get half the screen refreshes . i think it looks more like a paperback/hardback book. ok, on further reading it can only do epub format. no pdf etc... open source so other formats could be...
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    Should I have received my final order eMail already?

    when was the last one delivered? are there any being delivered? how would we know as there is zero news from ED.
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    Movies better than books

    British national living in Australia and i am definitely in the 60% that did! i would estimate well over 100 books listened to while driving. Feild service tech doing over 5000Kms per month driving.
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    So where are we with the Pyra--really? (August 2025 Query)

    to be honest , that sucks! 16 years on these boards and lately i am wondering why i bother. its just a habit now and check in to see if anything has happened. The first batch of 500 still hasnt been completed and i seriously doubt that there is money to start the next batch of 500...
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    So where are we with the Pyra--really? (August 2025 Query)

    cheers, its the lack of ED's presence on the boards that people interpret as the project being abandoned.
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    So where are we with the Pyra--really? (August 2025 Query)

    and how would anyone know? ED has not bothered to post here for a very long time let alone post an update. He used to do it often but for the last couple of years there has been nothing. this is the official site after all. as far as i can tell we are still in the 2016 year orders so any order...
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    What have you bought recently?

    new decent 3D printer, works very well. just printed a longsword... not assembled yet( the sword).
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    What have you bought recently?

    samsung note 10+ so im on android. The keyboard works with FluidSynth on rasp pi... had a quick 5 minute try with reaper but didnt immediatly figure anything out as i dont know the software .
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    The Rise of Pyra - A story about the past 6 months

    at a guess between the "what have you bought" and " what music are you listening to" threads 50% of the posts on this forum are yours... lol
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    The Rise of Pyra - A story about the past 6 months

    when over 90% of the posts are in " everything else" and " off topic" and ED doesnt post anything it is hard to think it is not dead. i hope for those still waiting that there will be a product for them. Talk of a new SOC didnt even garner much interest and just petered out. personally i stopped...
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    MiSTer Project - Open Source Multi-Emulator on FPGA

    if its not real silicon then it is not real. call it what you like but if it isnt real then its a simulation which is an emulation of REAL SILICON. FPGA is NOT real silicon.
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