Grench
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@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.