Case closed?


@Grench, lemme borrow your Pyra.

As you know, I don't have one yet. I have, however, given some thought to the how/if it would be possible to share it around to a few developers. However, it is a very expensive piece of kit. By the time I could set up some form of escrow or collateral for ensuring it's return and the costs involved, etc, it quickly becomes more expedient to invite people to come visit it on their own dime - which isn't practical either.

So, another thought occurred to me. If a person were to set up a Pyra connected to the internet with accounts set up for developers to access it using ssh -X. If the developers blow up the file system, it gets re-imaged. In theory, a Pyra set up this way wouldn't need a case, screen, keymat, etc... Any functional board with a booting OS and a USB to Ethernet adapter could do it.

No, that wouldn't be very fun to play games on. But - if someone wanted to assist in working with the GUI and Pyra specific applications, maybe? And that shouldn't have to wait for a Prototype pre-pre-orderer to figure it out.
 
People have already set up dev boards with ssh access for developers for a while now. Maybe having the real Pyra OS on the other end of the line and supplementary chips like the LTE chip will be a significant improvement, but I'm not sure how much work has been delivered over ssh access already, so it might also not garner too much use either, I dunno.

And I know of one forum member has already booked a world tour just so he can visit sebt's Pyra prototype on the other side of the world, as far as I can tell.
 
People have already set up dev boards with ssh access for developers for a while now. Maybe having the real Pyra OS on the other end of the line and supplementary chips like the LTE chip will be a significant improvement, but I'm not sure how much work has been delivered over ssh access already, so it might also not garner too much use either, I dunno.

And I know of one forum member has already booked a world tour just so he can visit sebt's Pyra prototype on the other side of the world, as far as I can tell.

Right now, more than 2 months out from general production, I can almost understand someone making a pilgrimage if they have something that they -need- to directly handle/interact/work with a prototype. There is a lot of uncertainty in the timeline and those that exist to date are very very few.

In the case of the purchased prototypes, though, I'll probably have that within 1-2 months of general production. At that point the number of units in the wild will increase threefold or fourfold or more. The rarity will be much less. The production issues should be far fewer. The time between then and mass production should be relatively short. So there will be a much lessened value to globetrotting to visit a computer.

I could be wrong though. Lets see where things are at once the prototypes ship out. If a local user group wants to pool together to buy me round trip plane tickets and provide a guest bedroom for a weekend, I could hypothetically bring my prototype Pyra for a visit. That hypothetical isn't overly relevant for the next month or two though.
 
well with how my summer is gong to go, twins being born around the mythical 2 month window of the pyra getting fully built (hopefully) i still will not have time for a bit lol, in my case take your time lol
 
In these two years I've made a baby, lost my job and will change countries. Still hoping to get a Pyra while alive.
Someone could probably start a thread to discuss, "Life events since ordering a Pyra." However fun it would be to see the happy/fun/exciting things, there will inevitably be sad things as well. How to have a thread like that without it becoming morose?
 
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