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  1. blazing_grey

    Playing with Play-Doh

    I've always heard it as the 80-80 rule: "The first 80% of progress takes the first 80% of the time, and the last 20% of progress takes the other 80% of the time."
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    Quite a bit for you to read!

    Git can version binaries just fine, it just can't do a 3-way merge on them. Probably. If there's a way, it'll now be revealed.
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    I wish you could feel things through the internet!

    Something I've been curious about for a bit: why not just do the LCD cable the way old-school (e.g. back when they were actually durable) Thinkpads did? You can see it coming out of the bottom edge of the lid assembly in this image...
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    Parts, Boards and the Rotator

    In my experience things like auto-backlighting exist not because any user likes them, but because they increase things like battery life numbers. So it looks to me that it's at least somewhat a marketing issue. This said, I do notice a significant difference with my phone's battery life when...
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    Colorful week

    Did you know that in Chrome for Android when you exceed 99 open tabs it replaces the count with a :D emoji? Because it does, and my wife's phone has been like this since the second day she owned it. Some people like a lot of tabs.
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    Bugs and Calculations

    Here's another +1 for a US 4G module being necessary, but I'll go one step further: what if, at least for the first batch, there were a way for people who want 4G to donate or pay a higher price to defray the cost of meeting MOQ? I couldn't afford four Pyras, but I'd be willing to pay for two or...
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    One week with the Pyra

    I don't usually me-too, but since ED might be taking a tally, +1 on the no-touchscreen option, for the added clarity and color accuracy, and for the political statement about my hatred of touchscreens of any type. And also for trolling my friends by running my X server with --dpi 96 on a 5"...
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    Pandora repair question

    Thanks much. Here's to hoping international mail is faster than breaking traces. :)
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    Pandora repair question

    As of July 6, it looks like LCD cables are out of stock again. Is this true? Are more coming in? I'm getting that purple tint feeling again...
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    Release HammerWatch (launcher)

    FWIW, I was just able to play a few minutes into level 1 on a 1ghz unit without any swapfile (but zram on) - I even had a pile of other apps running at the time. Framerate was kind of mediocre, but interesting to discover the swapfile isn't strictly necessary. I don't know if I would have crash...
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    Suspend/Low Power Mode kills bind mounts from USB drives?

    That was my first thought as well, but the usbkey mounts as /dev/sdX rather than a mmcblk, so I'm guessing that's not it (also, weirdly, how did the mounts survive having cards unmounted when I was running from a card?).
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    Suspend/Low Power Mode kills bind mounts from USB drives?

    Pretty much what the subject line says. I'm running a Pandebian chroot off a usb thumbdrive, and if I enter low power mode by sliding the power switch, all of my bind mounts have been unmounted when power returns, which rather screws anything that was running from them. ISTR this didn't happen...
  13. blazing_grey

    Solvent!

    @Klumpen: I don't want to repaint the case because then that paint will just wear off in my pocket, and anyway I like the shade of black the case is under the paint. That's an awesome gameboy, though... @Znirk: I wasn't sure if the battery case was the same stuff, but it sure does look the...
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    Solvent!

    Here's a really weird question: does anyone know what solvent the paint on 1Ghz Pandoras is based on? Or, alternately, what the case material is? For background, I have a very nice 1Ghz Pandora that's been at my side all day (as in, in my pocket) for a couple of months now and the silver paint...
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