Preorders Have Started. (Previously named starts in two hours)


The title of this thread could probably be changed to Dragonbox Pyra - Pre-orders open. It's a bit misleading atm.
 
So the fifth 24 hours of pre-orders is now up.

It seems we got :

350 Pre-orders the first 24 hours (350)
79 Pre-orders in the second 24 hours. (429)
49 Pre-orders in the third 24 hours (478) (Some double up Pre-orders were removed though)
29 Pre-orders in the fourth 24 hours (507)
18 Pre-orders in the fifth 24 hours (525)

This is where it gets interesting and the community needs to focus on getting the word out in an attempt to entice the hard customers, ie new customers not part of this community and who have not heard of the Pyra (ie not part of the pent up demand which we are chewing through fast)
 
Cool. Was just a little worried cause I ordered @ 00:08:00 on the preorder lol. Just hope I didn't lose my spot
Evildragon did make a mistake where none of the orders in the first few hours were sending out vouchers. He fixed it and should be sending out the vouchers manually. I'm sure he won't forget you.
 
Percentages are a ratio of 1/100, they're applied multiplicatively. 100% of something is 100/100, so 1. 100% more than something means "add 100%", so a ratio of 2:1, or 200%. We're comparing some value x, and stating that value y is x+100%, so y=x+100%x=200%x=2x, therefore x=y/2=50%y.
You're assuming that they're relative to each other, but you can also do percentages as ratios of a base standard.
Raisin Bran has 2 scoops of raisins as standard. You can then get one box with 1 scoop of raisins and another box with 3 scoops of raisins, or 50% of standard and 150% of standard respectively: it wouldn't be incorrect to say box 2 has 100% more raisins than box 1 (vs standard). Deceptive, yes, but not wrong.
In this case we can can count 1 systemd as standard, or 100% of the systemd, with 2 systemds being 200% and no systemd being 0%: it would not be incorrect to say that, relative to standard, something with systemd has 100% more systemd than something without.
 
You're assuming that they're relative to each other, but you can also do percentages as ratios of a base standard.
Raisin Bran has 2 scoops of raisins as standard. You can then get one box with 1 scoop of raisins and another box with 3 scoops of raisins, or 50% of standard and 150% of standard respectively: it wouldn't be incorrect to say box 2 has 100% more raisins than box 1 (vs standard). Deceptive, yes, but not wrong.
In this case we can can count 1 systemd as standard, or 100% of the systemd, with 2 systemds being 200% and no systemd being 0%: it would not be incorrect to say that, relative to standard, something with systemd has 100% more systemd than something without.
But for the type of device the Pyra is, 0 systemds is the standard. Isn't it?
 
But for the type of device the Pyra is, 0 systemds is the standard. Isn't it?
"Standard" is the wrong word. "Base" should have been correct. We can define the base to be whatever we want. If you define base to be 0 then any amount of systemd is infinite systemd. Much easier to work with positive integers. 1 systemd is convenient.
 
You're assuming that they're relative to each other, but you can also do percentages as ratios of a base standard.
Raisin Bran has 2 scoops of raisins as standard. You can then get one box with 1 scoop of raisins and another box with 3 scoops of raisins, or 50% of standard and 150% of standard respectively: it wouldn't be incorrect to say box 2 has 100% more raisins than box 1 (vs standard). Deceptive, yes, but not wrong.
In this case we can can count 1 systemd as standard, or 100% of the systemd, with 2 systemds being 200% and no systemd being 0%: it would not be incorrect to say that, relative to standard, something with systemd has 100% more systemd than something without.
Woulnd't you say then, it "has 100 percentage points more than"?
 
You're assuming that they're relative to each other, but you can also do percentages as ratios of a base standard.
Raisin Bran has 2 scoops of raisins as standard. You can then get one box with 1 scoop of raisins and another box with 3 scoops of raisins, or 50% of standard and 150% of standard respectively: it wouldn't be incorrect to say box 2 has 100% more raisins than box 1 (vs standard). Deceptive, yes, but not wrong.
In this case we can can count 1 systemd as standard, or 100% of the systemd, with 2 systemds being 200% and no systemd being 0%: it would not be incorrect to say that, relative to standard, something with systemd has 100% more systemd than something without.
FWIW such reasoning would be incorrect at a math test in school around here. (Because unless the standard is explicitly given the target of the comparison implicitly becomes the standard (making the correct operation a multplication instead of an addition).)
 
From how I understood it, the led was just to control if the modem is active, it wasn't to disable/enable the modem.

Would like @EvilDragon to clarify it.
an LED is just an indicator light, it controls nothing, It will be good for knowing if it's enabled or not. However I'm fairly certain it WILL be turned on and off by a software controlled GPIO.
I meant for the user to control visually. How a software controlled GPIO is secure?
 
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Are the pre-orders going to stay up for the forseeable future. I dont think I can pre-order til payday (25th).
Any ideas when the 1st people may start receiving or is it in 2 months (tm)
As there are preparation for media campaigns, I assume you could place order till May 25th.

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I meant for the user to control visually. How a software controlled GPIO is secure?
I'll bite on this,
The chances of anyone exploiting the GPIO is very unlikely, some random attacker would need to know you are using a Pyra and extremely specific details of hardware and how set this GPIO in the software. The Pyra is one of the rarest handhelds on the market and some random stranger knowing any of these details are unlikely.
The so called attacker would need to have access to your network, with dynamic and ever changing network addresses. If the modem is off, there is no access, if you are on WIFI, your router and the network you are on is already compromised. This is assuming that there is a hole that would allow ssh access or other means to set this value. Most likely remote SSH access could be restricted on the cell modem device by default.

So if all this happens and somehow you are compromised, there is an LED indicating that the modem is on, it's wired in line to the power to the modem, there is no way of software controlling it to hide the fact that it's really on when you think it's off.
 
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