Analyzing 4GB RAM


Kippykip said:
Protip, don't use your real name or phone number:)
In fact I think the only site I've used my real name is on PayPal or when I'm filling out billing information
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I'm doing similar thing. But the problem is that if you make your "e-personality" (your comments, forum posts, published creations) dependent on monopoly such as FB, it may lock your account and e.g. ask for... scan of ID document! Yes, it happened before. ID is full of sensitive data, you can take a loan with it, transfer of such data is highly regulated, but if someone is monopoly regulations are not obligatory for them. So avoid relying too much on FB with nickname.
 
PCXT said:
I'm doing similar thing. But the problem is that if you make your "e-personality" (your comments, forum posts, published creations) dependent on monopoly such as FB, it may lock your account and e.g. ask for... scan of ID document! Yes, it happened before. ID is full of sensitive data, you can take a loan with it, transfer of such data is highly regulated, but if someone is monopoly regulations are not obligatory for them. So avoid relying too much on FB with nickname.
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Hence why it's called "Kippykip II", the same thing happened to my old account so this is my 2nd one.
 
Kippykip said:
If I somehow managed to get my mates to switch to IRC, I'd be the guy having to host a private server in my house and port forward OR pay some company online monthly to host one. The majority of my IRL mates wouldn't have a clue how to do that.
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Why would you need to? There's multiple networks with servers upon servers available to the public?
 
bzar said:
Discord, Slack, Flowdock, Skype, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram (AFAIK) and any other closed server single-provider walled gardens can never replace IRC for all use cases.
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With Telegram at least, the client is open source, so if the servers all died, it could be made to connect to an alternate server. Assuming it's easy to black-box it based on the client code.
 
I would likely be willing to switch to the 2gb version. I'd rather have the 4gb, but honestly, I'm more concerned with getting a functional product than I am with a specific level of RAM. The option of being able to purchase the 4gb board later at cost would go really far in convincing me...
 
Well, since this thread started, work has progressed on the 4GB situation, and it looks rather as if they've got a config now that may end up chewing through the battery slightly faster, but does seem to make 4GB stable. We always thought 4GB would take more battery than 2GB to maintain, so the config they've already got may well be very nearly perfect.
 
Wow, that's right!


(I don't think that's been posted here yet).

For those with trouble reading embedded tweets (like me):
Evildragon1717 wrote:
According to my contact, new cases have been produced yesterday. He hasn't been there but will check them out on Monday.
 
In think the only way at present is to request a cancellation of your 4GB unit and preorder a 2GB one instead. But it's not clear if ED will still email preorderers to offer them an in-place change, or if he considers the 4GB problem nearly solved now, and thinks it's still worth producing 4GB units with minimal changes now-ish, rather than delay making 4GB boards until the problem's totally solved.
 
dsblackout said:
I actually want to change to 2GB/US LTE and don't know how to do so.
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As I recall you don't actually have to do anything. Right now the numbers are just for estimates, you're not locked into anything until you make the final payment, at which point you can choose something else.
 
Hey guys, according to this mailing list post, probably something that was done to the prototype boards by the Pyra crew caused the 4GB issue, meaning that the production boards probably don't have to be replaced. I think. I'm not 100% at reading this hardware related stuff. Maybe someone else can explain it better?

https://www.pyra-handheld.com/pipermail/kernel/2017-October/002093.html
 
i believe this was because they are trying different memory chips (as part of a troubleshooting step) and from an old mailer post i remember them suggesting trying some other memory chips.

"these shorts did not exists before starting rework"

Is what leads me to believe this is the case, but correct me if i am wrong?

JDTAY said:
Hey guys, according to this mailing list post, probably something that was done to the prototype boards by the Pyra crew caused the 4GB issue, meaning that the production boards probably don't have to be replaced. I think. I'm not 100% at reading this hardware related stuff. Maybe someone else can explain it better?
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EvilDragon said:
As mentioned, we have a backup company (with which I've been working a couple of times already to produce SNES, N64, NES and MegaDrive cartridge shells) and they have a plastic/carbon-mix material that is VERY robust (supports up to 1.5t weight).
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I was less interested in a metal case when I learned that it would negatively affect WiFi. If this plastic/carbon-mix material does not affect WiFi as much as metal, than I would be very interested in buying a Pyra with it, even if this were an option with a higher price.
 
As far as I know, carbon is frowned upon in modern RC quad-copters and cars because of shielding 2,4 GHz communication.
But maybe this material is not affecting this range because of another structure when mixed with plastic.
 
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