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The most important reason to order the 4 GB model is that according to currently available information it is impossible to construct 2 GB/4 GB versions from the same pcb by populating less chips without losing half the bandwidth on the 2 GB version. 2 GB slow memory obviously is significantly...

Actually even the Pandora screen is fine for Chinese characters in the pretty small font size I use in rxvt. The more complex ones obviously don't look beautiful at this size but they remain readable (sometimes only in context, though). Edit: sometimes more pixels makes Hanzi uglier because...

Extrapolating the current ratios to 1,000 preorders gives ~500 EU 4G and ~150 US ones. At 1,500 preorders it will be ~750 EU vs. ~250 US modules. Currently it looks like there have to be around 3,000 preorders to reach the MOQ for the US 4G module.

Thanks for the link. Always interested in looking at learning tools for programmers (it's part of my job). But after playing through the first 50 levels or so I think the actual content is not very good at teaching programming (will still force some of my apprentices to work with it to test my...

Probably the most absurd things in this whole thread.

Something like this. It is fine, that the system may overheat under certain circumstances, bit it has to be absolutely clear to the customer what to expect. The current information on https://www.pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyratech/ isn't good enough, because it contains not even a footnote...

OTOH notaz is the guy with kernel maintenance experience.

Unless it is like the Pandora which is pretty difficult to overheat (even charging while running the stress test didn't do it for me) or it is specifically designed in a way that the user cannot trigger overheating behavior even if the system would overheat under permanent load conditions (e.g...

A system that overheats when used *is* broken. That there was no SoC available that better fits the thermal budget of a Pandora like device is sad, but that's the way it is. I'm happy as long as the Pyra will not use more power than the Pandora for similar tasks, especially when idling (which is...

In my experience the 512Mb is not a significant Problem (actually notaz's gcc/g++ package fits nicely including the dev packages for firmware libraries). There are very few things that absolutely have to be installed at fixed locations under /bin, /usr, /lib, or /etc. Pretty much everything can...

I've removed all DEs and the DM from my desktop debian testing install and are back to the good old times of startx (when X is required; don't care for Wayland yet, because most interesting - to me - things still require X and will continue to do so for a while). Also found out that...

Actually I don't have a clue, but looking at my N900's packages it seems that the voice support is directly integrated into pa (there are also some misc packages that directly depend on the pa daemon, but these may be erroneous).

The article is a little strong on 'I think ...', 'I strongly believe ...' etc. without much actual evidence. Apropos 'I think...', I think that internet culture actually isn't a good example of creativity or the other values described in the article.

I suspect that some ports (e.g. a phone suite) won't run without the pa daemon.

I don't understand this native port mania. Take Torchlight (it was a giveaway on GOG sometime so a lot of people probably have it in their library). I cannot get the Linux port to run on any newer distribution I've tried since I've ditched Ubuntu 12.04 (due to some library incompatability), but...

Tools always fail when they are trying to be smart. (At least until they develop actual mind reading capabilities.)

There doesn't seem to be an easy answer to this. From random search results it seems that the 4G state machine is simpler and will spend more time in the high power state when the link is active, so sending a small package every couple of seconds will keep it continously in the high power state...

Even if MOQ for the US-Version of the modem is not met in the preorder, I think it is reasonable to assume that there would be enough customers within a year or something. Link could then set up a board swapping service for US customers, possibly cheaper than every US customer paying for several...

Ah, thanks, really didn't get that. I think it is difficult to draw the line. If I could sell a kidney to get enough money instead of using kick starter, is it still crowd funding? Doing it this way, GPD spreads the risk and can do more things using their capital. Overall the crowd may still...

Why? Not enough Chinese to form a crowd?