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Might they not be used to monitor the 4G module for phone calls while the rest of the device sleeps? It would be useful, I think, for the Pyra to have a "dumbphone" mode where nothing is powered but the RAM, the 4G module and an M4 processor -- I assume that powering down the main processor...

I have not really paid attention, but I recall mentions of something called "Exagear", which emulates an x86 (x86_64?) system with GNU/Linux on top -- specifically, I recall mentions of running WINE atop "Exagear", so, in theory, one could play Homeworld or Thief 2 on a Pyra (though I cannot...

Would you mind naming any, aside from navigation programs? With WINE there are certain "classic" games that give it a purpose: the likes of Thief 1 & 2, Fallout 1 & 2, Homeworld and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. I am less familiar with DOS (from my backlog: Master of Orion 2, Betrayal at Krondor...

Apologies for the derail: Given that Android is widespread and likely to last for long, one expects there to be many useful and/or fun applications, as on Microsoft Windows, so that a WINE-equivalent for Android would be worthwhile. The problem is, as someone who has never used* (and never...

Also because, traditionally, child labour is normal and they can help on the farm (where there is plenty of space). In times of relative plenty (i.e. not famine) children can be an economic net asset (rather than a liability) for a subsistence farmer or similar. Also, traditions, almost by...

Do you go through these social rituals three times a day, every day? That would be highly unusual. Quite a few people are both single and living alone, so eating has no social aspect at home. Besides, in my experience, having more than one, or perhaps two, people in the kitchen while cooking...

Have you tied running Java before running the IDE? It is a bit clunky, but I believe it is necessary for Libreoffice, too. This is a weakness of the PND system: it is not ideal for lower-level "system" software -- with apt-get, the Pyra should be better.

You need the Java .pnd file, if I remember correctly. Do you have that?

'Tis just a question of how much education you need... Ah, pedantry. I am good at this, but well-played sir/madam. Still, when we say that someone has built a house, we usually do not mean to imply that that someone fired their own bricks or mixed their own mortar or collected coal and ore to...

Cooking occasionally can be interesting, but needing to do so daily would be a great annoyance. Additionally, attempting to eat healthily without a lot of effort is tricky, so I support Soylent-like products in principle. Of only it was solid so that one would not need to spend minutes mixing it...

There are many things that seem "normal" in Japan (or, more correctly, merely outside the mainstream or slightly creepy) that are borderline (or not) unacceptable in the West, which is our domain: as far as I am aware, the Pandora (and by extension the Pyra) is most well known in Western Europe...

So, if AMD licences out the instruction set (as patent or as copyright? Either way, there would still be some stuff that would have to be licenced from Intel, no?), why do more companies not do so? Too expensive? Or is there no market for cheap, crap x86 CPUs? In theory, any company with...

No, not sexualized at all; this is what women wear habitually in many parts of the world. Practical dress. Still, probably better than the ones that may be construed to be little girls. Assuming purposefulness, a mascot exists to, in some way, promote a product or movement, either to the...

Roughly two years old. Why is x86 more of a monopoly threat than ARM? Patents and licences? Or is it because an x86 machine would be more difficult to implement because of the history and cruft of x86 vs. ARM?

Please, no. This sort of thing makes it difficult to be taken seriously. Cartoon images of curvaceous females have connotations of "teenagers", "basement-dwellers" and "dweebs" -- cartoon images of non-curvaceous females are even worse (let us, please, not discuss it). Males are generally not...

My CPU is from Intel. What are they thought to be doing? Regarding abuse, in general, any monopolist can do it -- why must there be a (near) monopoly for x86 while not for ARM? A cheaper licence for ARM? x86 too difficult to make a good implementation for? Am I right to think that your...

Why? I have come across this attitude before, but I have not yet been given a convincing argument for it. I am aware that the x86_64 instruction set is reputed to be convoluted (though I believe that it is less bad than 32-bit x86, with my own fiddling with x86_64 (I built a non-x86 assembler in...

One might argue, though, that the victim does have a responsibility to take reasonable precautions to protect themselves, as they are usually not the only people affected when they become victims: for violent crimes, the family of the victim is often affected; for theft, there are likely effects...

2016 will be the year of GNU/Linux on the palmtop. :troll:

(Someone please correct me if/where I am wrong). Since Android is/was based on Dalvik, a Java-like virtual machine, is it not possible to just run Dalvik in a CHROOT or some such thing? I am aware that there is a separate windowing-system for Android, but would it be possible to use a...