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I noticed https://covid19info.live/ now has comparison graphs for SARS and N1H1 as well. The "Outside Mainland China" graph is terrifyingly steep now. At least the order I made from Thomann last night shipped out quickly today... The good news is that a drug called "Chloroquine Phosphate" has...

@levi Thanks for the info, I corrected the table at https://www.pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/pyra-news-fresh-from-the-dragons-mouth.98981/post-1669735

Correct, unfortunately confirmed cases are all we have to go on statistics-wise.

Thanks! Can you give the table a quick glance again and see if I got it right?

So I've tried to make a list of the Pyra parts, what I think the inherent risk of theft is and their current status (please correct me if I'm wrong on either point): Case Custom 1000 produced, in transit to ED next week Mainboard Custom 550 produced, in transit? CPU boards Custom ...

@levi According to the latest consolidated semi-realtime statistics, Italy is up from 62 cases yesterday to 155 cases today.

Well the plastic cases are custom made and so are the boards, so they're pretty safe because they're not reusable for other products. It's much of the same story with the batteries, although they are ever so slightly more desirable for use as built in batteries where the connectors don't matter...

With the recent outbreak in Italy I'm less optimistic now than I was last week. Unfortunately situations like this where massive shortages are expexted can lead to component theft, I'm sure Global Components are doing their best to protect their customers but we can't be 100% sure our...

Unfortunately from the statistics it looks like it's just getting started outside of China. Here's a neat site I found a few days ago: https://covid19info.live/ . Click the "Show More Graphs" button and you'll see a clear acceleration of confirmed cases in the "Outside Mainland China" graph...

A Pyra Phone could fill a gap in the market where the Librem 5 missed out on being modular in favor of being thinner. I'm not entirely convinced that gap is large enough to turn a profit by itself, but keeping the features and form factor while upgrading the SoC (much like you would in a PC) has...

The thing is just that a similar Linux phone without the cameras simply doesn't exist (yet). Those DIP switches are probably not going to like being toggled every day either, so I'd probably end up leaving just the cameras off until I actually need one of them. With my current phone I use the...

I'd say that's on the edge of what most people mean when they say "hardware switch". What they really mean is a "mechanical switch", but nonetheless a software operated hardware switch can theoretically be operated by malicious software. I'd actually argue both qualify as physical switches since...

IIRC we already have all the components which would usually have to be imported from China, so at the very least the first batch should not be affected much by the corona virus. I'm more worried about factory time since some production is now moving out of China, but we already seem to have our...

Great news, seems like we're getting close to having review units now! Also I'm pretty sure there's a trademarked bi-lunar joke in here somewhere.

I like how ED posts news just as I am about to fall asleep.

To be completely honest I didn't even consider booting Windows natively. I guess native Windows mentally became a corner case after I moved my last performance critical Windows installation to a hardware accelerated VM in January of 2012. Sorry about that. I can agree with (average) power...

A very well written analysis, but there are two minor errors. First of all, the A6-9220C is a different part to the A6-9220. I fell into this trap as well when I did my pre-thread-creation research. They have different CPU specs (different clock speeds and TDP) and entirely different GPU specs...

Sure, but I wouldn't expect any SoC to be a drop in replacement of the existing board. I do however understand that an SoC more similar to the OMAP5432 would have similar space constraints and passive support components. As to how much an A6-9220C differs from say an Atom X5-8350, or for...

These are Excavator based cores, but from what I've read about them it seems they have been modified to be entirely self contained. I'd guess that's why they could only fit 2 cores into a 28nm package. Some more info here...

While everyone else was waiting for Zen 2 and Navi, AMD got my attention by releasing two Chromebook oriented SoCs; the A4-9120C and the A6-9220C. Both are 6W TDP parts (OMAP5432 seems to be configurable as 3W or 6W?) and have full fledged x86 cores with GCN graphics. Linux support could...