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Not to mention that the Android environment relies heavily on various things like Binder that are mutually exclusive with a sane desktop Linux setup. (Binder is a "weird" IPC system that is used heavily as a means to do synchronous inter-process method invocation and opens a massive security...

Exactly. I do but I've been having trouble finding the right search keywords to dig it up in either Google or my Firefox Scrapbook archive. If you find it before I do, you'll know it when you see it. It goes into a lot of detail and the author even took the effort to generate pie charts. The...

A fair enough rationale. I choose to call it "Linux" because: Stallman's insistence on GNU/Linux is obnoxious The amount of GNU code (including GCC) as a percentage of "the platform" is less than X.org and continues to shrink. The Linux dialect of the ELF binary format is part of the...

Oh, sorry. I probably got confused about which thread you were replying to. I'm a bit pressed for time so I didn't (and still don't) have time to double-check the reply chain, I'm following practically every Pyra thread, and I've talked about this topic a fair bit.

Actually, I was worried about location tracking. It's already been confirmed that the chip connects to the main processor as a USB device rather than via shared memory so compromise via that avenue (other than "tricked into installing malware" or "browser exploit") is unlikely even when the chip...

I don't own a cellphone so I never looked into it further. I'm guessing that a compliant phone has some mechanism to make emergency calls on whichever compatible network it finds a good signal for first.

e911 laws here in Canada require the chip to be capable of making calls to emergency services and performing geolocation for 911 dispatchers without a SIM installed. Geolocation is remotely triggered. That means that a powered but SIM-less baseband processor can still be abused by the...

I never said it did. I just wanted to bring attention to my use case since nobody seemed to have mentioned it. I never use the Pandora as a USB slave device because: I never did get around to figuring out how to make the USB networking Just Work™ without a lot of fiddling every time I plug it...

What about selling barrel-to-µUSB adaptors? I've got two Pandora power supplies (one in my travel bag and one which I leave plugged in on my desk) and a 2A PSP charger that's used with my PRS-505 eReader. I can use any of those with either my Pandora or my PRS-505 eReader. It'd be nice to...

As long as I don't have to buy via ThinkGeek, I'm all for more options for people buying it. ThinkGeek only ships to Canada via private couriers like DHL and UPS and they like to charge roughly 30% for "sales tax and customs brokerage" to Canadian customers, even if the seller has no business...

Canada is phasing out the 1¢ coin, so it's not impossible... it just takes political will.

If you could cut the module in half and just give me the GPS part of the die, I wouldn't have to choose. I just don't want my GPS to come at the cost of the Pyra having an additional avenue of attack above and beyond the Pandora. As a Canadian, wireless data is too expensive for me to use...

They said they were using this exact 1080p display because nobody sells 720p displays anymore. (Industrial control panels have no need of anything bigger than 800x480 and 720p is considered obsolete by the smartphone industry.)

I was actually about to say that with regards to eMMC. If eMMC ends up being chosen, could we at least get it on a proprietary but replaceable daughterboard like the ODROID-U3 uses? I can't help but fear that I'll botch something and wind up killing my flash memory so I always boot my Pandora...

Actually, that's not correct. Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) That reverse-engineered codec is the same one SMPlayer2 uses to play WMA on the Pandora. The Audacious PND is just too old. (It's either too old an FFmpeg or a version of Audacious from before...

That's still awkward. I actually sort of like the Greek letters idea. They'd be pleasing to the eye and it shouldn't be too difficult to set up Compose key bindings or pull them from a character map utility. The only downside is that, beyond alpha, beta, omega, and possibly lambda, English...

I think he's talking about the awkwardness of writing or reading instructions when the buttons aren't labelled. (eg. my "Select and XXYBA" example from Yoshi's Island)

My main problems with using symbolic buttons are that they're more awkward to write about and they're also counter-standard. Which would you rather type or say? "Hold Select and Press XXYBA" (NES/SNES/N64/GC/Wii/GB/GBC/GBA/DS/Genesis/Saturn/DC/X-Box/360/XBone/etc., One Syllable Each) or "Hold...

While it's not fixed (note the star), the current probably is the same 1920x1080 part used in the Nexus 5.

I have heard of Wind mobile, but I'm about 1.5 hours north of Toronto in a little 300 pop. nowhere. It's pure luck that I get 5Mbit/800Kbit DSL. Besides, I wouldn't use it enough to justify $45/month when I think long and hard before shelling out $40/year for a VPS.