Production Pyra photos/videos/thoughts thread

[Haraldur]

We could have the user-defined keyboard button default as middle mouse button.

 

[levi]

pyra must do this
otherwise it's not unix

Linux isn't un*x anyway!

 

[God Ginrai]

Can't we just make the nub click be the middle mouse button?

-God Ginrai

 

[TrashyMG]

Can't we just make the nub click be the middle mouse button?

-God Ginrai

Well we can program it anyway we want honestly...

 

[Silent-Hunter]

I like having 2D scrolling so I definitely want my right nub to be only scroll, with clicking being left click. So I will probably want to map some key to middle mouse.

 

[Eight Bit]

I want to tilt my pyra to scroll *Hides*

 

[ible]

we do have a Usr1/2 button...

 

[docbroke]

I want to tilt my pyra to scroll *Hides*

It may be possible with accelerometer present in 4G Pyra but it may have undesirable effects in unimog.

 

[matzesu]

Na, Playing in the Unimog only cause a Lid Wobble, not uncontrollable scrolling...
As long as you don’t drive


Send from something, i guess ^^

 

[Letalis Sonus]

As you can see, the engineers at Mazda are quite pragmatic with the 'what if'....; the same applies here.

That's not how American law works. If something obviously stupid is being warned about in the manual, it usually means that someone actually tried that and sued the manufacturer for the caused damage. A friend of my parents used to work in a VW factory, he told me that it was very obvious which cars were going to be shipped to the US, because they were absolutely plastered with stupidly obvious warning labels.

Remember the guy who enabled speed control on his caravan and then stood up and walked into the back to make some coffee?

 

[RZR]

That's not how American law works. If something obviously stupid is being warned about in the manual, it usually means that someone actually tried that and sued the manufacturer for the caused damage. A friend of my parents used to work in a VW factory, he told me that it was very obvious which cars were going to be shipped to the US, because they were absolutely plastered with stupidly obvious warning labels.

Remember the guy who enabled speed control on his caravan and then stood up and walked into the back to make some coffee?

This is actually quoted from a EUDM mx-5; but AFAIK all mx-5/miata are assembled on Hiroshima... Maybe they made the manual for the 'peculiarities' of the USDM (or the most restrictive market) and use it for every other market. Anyway, that's one of the few examples I know of a product warning the owner not to do something because 'it was not designed for that'. You usually read 'don't do this' or 'don't do this because you will be hurt/killed'.

Back on topic, paste with middle button is useful, but I would need to use the Pyra first to see if or how it could be implemented there (or if there's need for it). Pandora users could be the ones that can answer that I suppose.

 

[PowerGod]

CTRL+C and CTRL+V (or SHIFT+INS) were super easy because of shoulder buttons while thumb typing on the Pandora, I never felt missing a proper paste button.

 

[Haraldur]

I wonder: will Anbox work on the Pyra, do we have the required kernel modules etc.? Having never owned an Android (nor iOS) device, I am a little curious about whether it has anything, worth using, to offer.

 

[wawrus]

Not sure if I shoulda started a new thread for this one: How are the folks who have production models finding the battery life with what battery/power management tuning that's been done so far (not sure where that is)?

 

[Legodude522]

I want to tilt my pyra to scroll *Hides*

Years ago, I remember using the accelerator in my iBook G4 to change workspaces by smacking the side of the screen.

 

[Grench]

pyra must do this
otherwise it's not unix

Actually, the REAL old school way to copy and paste is:
ctrl + ins = copy
shift + ins = paste
Which, using those shoulder buttons and the insert (ins) small button in the right game pad is REALLY easy to do.

So, mapping any other button to 'paste' would be pretty darn redundant.

 

[Grench]

Not sure if I shoulda started a new thread for this one: How are the folks who have production models finding the battery life with what battery/power management tuning that's been done so far (not sure where that is)?

Since the devs are still working on the battery control from a software side and the bits of the SoC that offload computation still being worked on, it is hard to say what battery life -will- be. What it is right now is ~8+ hours sitting on the desk with the screen on and about 2-3 hours doing stuff that pegs the CPU. Frankly we need a way to easily purposely throttle the CPU on a per-app basis because 150+ fps on some games like Hostile Takeover is a waste of cycles. A lot of programs are built to consume all resources available to boost frame rate - which doesn't help battery life. But, what it is now could also be seen as 'worst case' where the CPU is doing 3D, MPEG, etc instead of offloading those to specialized circuits. The software side for the 3D is in the works, I have played around with it a bit - so great progress is ongoing!

 

[levi]

How many games can your switch vsync on? Having the game or what have you waiting for vsync each frame will allow the cpu to throttle back and what have you to help save battery.

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

I want to tilt my pyra to scroll *Hides*

Does the Pyra have sensors for measuring tilt? That would be pretty cool but I think I'd rather move the pointer that way.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

Does the Pyra have sensors for measuring tilt?

I'm pretty sure it does.

You get more style points doing that with a full sized Thinkpad, though. Makes playing Extreme Tux Racer much more fun.