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The physical wheel has an absolute, physical position. You can turn it down to minimum, and up to maximum, or somewhere in the middle, regardless of what the software is doing. Where the Pandora and many older devices have the wheel directly wired into the audio circuit, the Pyra has it...

Suppose the volume daemon were written to only check the volume wheel when audio is playing. How long would it take to notice a new audio playback stream, read the ADC, and set the volume? If it were fast - taking only a few tens of ms, you'd only get a faint click in the worst case. In fact...

At what level is the wheel position absolute? If the wheel is a potentiometer connected to an ADC, using modifiers would lead to some odd behaviour. If you set the volume, then pressed the modifier for display brightness, the brightness would jump to whatever you set the volume to. When you...

UK law is also absolutely full of weird step/staircase functions for calculating taxes and social benefits. It's as though the politicians who come up with this stuff were all asleep during maths class. It makes sense for discounts to lead to lesser taxes if the discount was given freely by the...

You mean that if, like me, you've pre-paid practically the entire cost of the device in vouchers, they count against the customs value of the device, reducing it to practically nothing? That would explain why a few people reported not getting tax bills for importing their Pyras. Still, I'm not...

Do you say that it is likely to become more flawed with time? That seems strange. Product quality generally improves, as design bugs are ironed out, and QC gets better at catching them. I would rather have a device which is conceptually-aligned with my values and have to buy a spare case set...

"There even are places where English completely disappears; in America, they haven't used it for years!" - Prof. H. Higgins

A thought: So far as I can tell, part of the Great Stallman Debate is that he is accused of being unfit to run a large organisation on the grounds of his socio-political attitudes. One counterargument is that free software can and should be coolly focused on technical merit, not race, gender...

How would you connect the second external display? I've not heard of being able to drive two separate video signals down a single HDMI cable - though I suppose it might be possible with some trickery. There are USB devices you can use as external video cards, but I think you'd struggle for...

The sign was intended to mean: "Do not exceed 20 [mph/kmph] [because there are] children [nearby]" You should drive slowly in case children are playing on the road. However, it might also be read as: "Do not exceed 20 children [because 21 children would be too many]" Which is funny, because the...

Perhaps of interest, the view of a real live woman in tech:

I suppose the first point for me is software usability. I have a mainstream (though 'old') smartphone, and I am constantly frustrated by deliberate, systemic design choices. My Pandora is much better, and I'm hoping that a Pyra (with Debian) will be better still. Second, I don't like the...

I think that's unlikely to be the problem if the backlight controls work and there's a ssh server running! My pandora has failed to start X once or twice after an unclean shutdown. Rebooting fixes it though. There's no harm in having a look to see if the display cable is loose. Are you happy...

Thank you for the commentary. Even though the pre-order experience is inevitably a bit wobbly with this sort of project, it sounds like the set of features to improve is fairly manageable, and I'm definitely looking forward to getting my unit when the time comes. Either way, real user feedback...

Here's a thought: There's a lot of simplistic discussion and advice involved in this pandemic. One example being the various distances one is supposed to stay from others. Six feet? Two metres? One metre? One smoot? The obvious justification for that is the limited bandwidth of public...

Perhaps I spoke too soon! https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/pyra-to-sell-or-not-to-sell-that-is-the-question.99350/

Preorder through the shop here, if you like: https://www.dragonbox.de/en/handhelds/pyra/pyra-preorder-mobile-ed-us-ver-4gb-ram With so few of them in the wild, you'll be lucky to find a second-hand unit for sale at less than the cost of a new one!

You might be thinking of: https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/would-this-ips-screen-work-on-the-pandora.99329/ I think screen-swapping is more trouble than it's worth. Video signals are a pain to work with, and smartphone parts are not kind to hardware hackers. If you haven't done much of...

So, how do you middle-click? If this is a bug report, and the behaviour turned out to be intended, then the issue is more subtle and less easily fixed. Should the default behaviour be modified to be less confusing? Could it be better documented?