Production Pyra photos/videos/thoughts thread


I like having 2D scrolling so I definitely want my right nub to be only scroll, with clicking being left click. So I will probably want to map some key to middle mouse.
 
As you can see, the engineers at Mazda are quite pragmatic with the 'what if'....; the same applies here.
That's not how American law works. If something obviously stupid is being warned about in the manual, it usually means that someone actually tried that and sued the manufacturer for the caused damage. A friend of my parents used to work in a VW factory, he told me that it was very obvious which cars were going to be shipped to the US, because they were absolutely plastered with stupidly obvious warning labels.

Remember the guy who enabled speed control on his caravan and then stood up and walked into the back to make some coffee?
 
That's not how American law works. If something obviously stupid is being warned about in the manual, it usually means that someone actually tried that and sued the manufacturer for the caused damage. A friend of my parents used to work in a VW factory, he told me that it was very obvious which cars were going to be shipped to the US, because they were absolutely plastered with stupidly obvious warning labels.

Remember the guy who enabled speed control on his caravan and then stood up and walked into the back to make some coffee?

This is actually quoted from a EUDM mx-5; but AFAIK all mx-5/miata are assembled on Hiroshima... Maybe they made the manual for the 'peculiarities' of the USDM (or the most restrictive market) and use it for every other market. Anyway, that's one of the few examples I know of a product warning the owner not to do something because 'it was not designed for that'. You usually read 'don't do this' or 'don't do this because you will be hurt/killed'.

Back on topic, paste with middle button is useful, but I would need to use the Pyra first to see if or how it could be implemented there (or if there's need for it). Pandora users could be the ones that can answer that I suppose.
 
I wonder: will Anbox work on the Pyra, do we have the required kernel modules etc.? Having never owned an Android (nor iOS) device, I am a little curious about whether it has anything, worth using, to offer.
 
Not sure if I shoulda started a new thread for this one: How are the folks who have production models finding the battery life with what battery/power management tuning that's been done so far (not sure where that is)?
 
Not sure if I shoulda started a new thread for this one: How are the folks who have production models finding the battery life with what battery/power management tuning that's been done so far (not sure where that is)?
Since the devs are still working on the battery control from a software side and the bits of the SoC that offload computation still being worked on, it is hard to say what battery life -will- be. What it is right now is ~8+ hours sitting on the desk with the screen on and about 2-3 hours doing stuff that pegs the CPU. Frankly we need a way to easily purposely throttle the CPU on a per-app basis because 150+ fps on some games like Hostile Takeover is a waste of cycles. A lot of programs are built to consume all resources available to boost frame rate - which doesn't help battery life. But, what it is now could also be seen as 'worst case' where the CPU is doing 3D, MPEG, etc instead of offloading those to specialized circuits. The software side for the 3D is in the works, I have played around with it a bit - so great progress is ongoing!
 
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