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Perhaps tablets are boring?

Perhaps I am naive, but I think it may be better to try to engineer an article on Slashdot or Phoronix or Hacker News or similar, for a more receptive audience than on Kickstarter. I expect that they would read "handheld GNU/Linux general-purpose computer" and know roughly what to expect...

@Thinkpad I would expect that it would be better for a camera attachment to point "down"; that way, when Pyra is held open in a normal fashion, the view into the screen by the user is roughly in the same direction as the view from the camera just behind the screen.

I need a phone. I do not need a good phone. A camera would be nice to have.

Are there not already holes for the speakers? Would there be any way to make use of them for convection, too?

1. I carry around, daily, a Pandora and a candy-bar style mobile phone. I want to exclude the phone. 2. As I use the Pandora as a music player, earphones are semi-permanently attached and around my neck. I would just need to use an earphone-microphone combo instead (why would I need Bluetooth?)...

Looks very good. The transparent case is better than I expected (but I still favour opaque). How easy is it to use all the ports on the back at the same time? Is it a tight fit? Perhaps, assuming we want to give a distinguishing feel to the keys F and J, F and J could be flat while the other...

Question: How much more effort would it be to have a "free" and a "non-free" Pyra-specific repository, rather than just one, for system software (i.e. non-DBP/PND/whatever)? What would be in the "non-free" repo aside from GPU drivers?

Having VRMS work would be quite nice, as in "nice to know". Though using proprietary software may be practically obligatory, it is useful to be able to see, at a glance, what, and how much, non-free software one is using. Of course, I would be surprised if it could (reliably) work with...

JPCSP is a PSP emulator. https://github.com/jpcsp/jpcsp http://jpcsp.org/

Black, dark grey or dark red are likely best. White is a bad idea as it shows dirt and scratches (and most noticeably dirt in scratches) rather badly.

I worry that that would be distracting, compared with an opaque case. It would be worse with various LEDs on, like the keyboard backlight system.

If I remember correctly, this depends on whether one has the option "use scancodes" checked, no?

@lameventanas There are two speakers, to the right and to the left of the keyboard. As @TrashyMG said, "phone mode" could disable the near-microphone speaker and, given that there are plenty of buttons and so no real need for touchscreen phone controls, could also disable the touch screen...

This is very interesting, if true, as it seems to contradict what I have read (or construed, at least) elsewhere -- it may be that Android's extra kernel features are never used directly by application software and can be "faked". If the Pandora/Pyra kernel was Android compatible, or if the...

Yes, of course ED would not change course now, but if, in the last two years, there had been the same amount of calls for Android as an/the OS, this time without the dissenting views ("defensiveness"), ED may (quite reasonably) have made a different decision. If everybody likes Android, or at...

What-ho, chums! I have spent too much time musing about Android compatibility layers since I posted the following over a fortnight ago: As you may surmise, I know very little about Android and, unfortunately, I failed to spark a discussion with that post. I try again now. I know very little...

I have nothing against some enterprising person trying to get Windows 10 to run on an x86_64 Pyra (except for the fact that Microsoft may get money from it in the long term and that otherwise innocent people might then get snooped upon by the said company while using their Pyra) -- in fact, I am...

The space for computing freedom is small, especially on mobile devices (with the Pandora an exception). As such, it should be defended vehemently, and calls for Android, which seems not especially "open" in practice, or Windows 10, even worse, can be highly worrying. After all, without the...

I think a better audience for the Pyra are the types who read the likes of Phoronix, Slashdot and Hacker News and with an interest in Open Source and/or Free Software (FOSS) and general purpose computation -- i.e. people like me -- rather than people who just want the cheapest decent emulation...