b_o_b
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Even https://dev.pyra-handheld.com is down since a while and no one seem to care.
Hmm.. Pandora repo seems to be down as well. Hope that will be fixed too.
Even https://dev.pyra-handheld.com is down since a while and no one seem to care.
Would be nice to know how Trixie runs on the Pyra.I've got no desire to use discord whatsoever.
Is there anyone from here using it that could relay the odd bit of news to us less sophisticated folks?
If you don't have a preorder and you aren't making the software better and you aren't adding anything to the wiki, why do you keep coming to the forum and absolutely dunking on the project?i so wanted this in the begining and i am now grateful that i didnt have the spare cash to preorder.
IRC is still there and pyrabot bridges to the discord channel.I've got no desire to use discord whatsoever.
Is there anyone from here using it that could relay the odd bit of news to us less sophisticated folks?
My problem is your attitude. To complain about something without doing anything about it is childish ranting. I guess you are welcome to it but be prepared to be called out. Progress is slow. ED has said progress has been far slower than he wanted. He's run into an excessive number of technical and social issues, some of which he probably shouldn't have talked about (employee stealing stock)no idea what your problem is mate
VSi have been very vocal in defending this project over the years.
i really hate that the Pyra has come to this but fundamental issues at the birth has killed this off.
Is it time to call it? its been in flatline for 8 months at least now.
Some of your history of posts don't come across as defending.cheers, its the lack of ED's presence on the boards that people interpret as the project being abandoned.
Ok, so can your opinion be irrelevant to this subject too?what my life is like and what i do are completely irrelevant to the subject.
When was the last Pyra sent? we cant know as ED isnt here to tell us.
July last year. Which is a long time, but it seems like people aren't excited about getting to their orders and sharing the information.Model: Mobile EU, black
Pre-Order date: 2016-05-02 11:03am German time
"Your Pyra is ready" mail: 2025-06-02
Final delivery: 2025-07-31 (there was a problem with my voucher; partially my fault that it took so long to solve it)
Unlikely. ED had posted that he had chosen to keep units on the shelf for people who HAD preorder but hadn't got around to responding to emails. Which is really sad. Maybe people abandoned their email account. Maybe they couldn't afford the final payment but don't respond.has a second batch been ordered? we cant know as ED isnt here to tell us.
I've updated uBoot to fix some timing issues which enabled 20-100 (forget the exact number) boards to boot and be tested so ED could get them to customers.what have you done for the project? why do you think that personally attacking me in any way furthers the Pyra?
Am i only allowed to be interested in the Pyra if i can code ?
You are coming across like the shopkeeper in the Month Python Parrot sketch...
Dont worry that its dead, its got beautiful plumage.
i really hate that the Pyra has come to this but fundamental issues at the birth has killed this off. the worst was pickingaCPU that the manufacturer abandoned.
i so wanted this in the begining and i am now grateful that i didnt have the spare cash to preorder.
Well, I don't think so. Pyra had near all possible faults-issues when selecting near every aspect of it. And CPU is bad (for example, no suspend mode), but NOT WORST part of Pyra errors. I think one of the worst was molding plastic decisions. They selected worst material-manufacturing (for this case-use) and worst company. It took years of wasted timed, money and ED burning. Even after turning to other better company, cases-parts needed a lot of manual rework (time-cost).
I think it would be much faster and totally much cheaper (even although unit cost would be higher than a functioning molded plastic case):
1/ Aluminium case/parts.
2/ CNC on aluminum or plastic. CNC would permit near immediate prototypes, near 1-day corrections. Imagine the difference with years and years lost for the molded plastic.
3/ A mix of aluminum CNC for big parts and plastic CNC for small ones.
By the way I think keys for keyboard are good for such a small device (they are too small to place gaming controls on top, but there was no more space if you wanted those gaming controls). If you look at a lot of other projects for pocket computers (and no so pocket size computers), most of them have horrible rubber or soft-plastic keys from horrible cheap small Bluetooth keyboards. So at least Pyra had some good points, but not enough to live.
So did I, and I am grateful for that. I followed Pyra from begin, even I remember initially it was going to have 1920×1080 pixel resilution (this was changed soon). A friend (who I showed Pyra project) was highly interested, as I was, but he did the same.
By the time Pyra was going nowhere, I ordered and received in 1-2 week products form Pine64 (PinePhone¹ with keyboard, PineNote, accessories).
BTW from ED shop I ordered and got two Pyra keyboards (keymat with keycaps), a Pyra case (and a Pyra bag), to see how it feels in person. I think that keyboard is remarkable, being so small. ED at least took a good decision. And I think there was enough keyboards (I remember a thread or post with the pics of a lot of cases with keymats; I don't remember if they were 1,000 or 2,000 but I am sure he could order how many thounsands as he needed). And they WORKED, not like cases-parts needing manual rework.
¹: But PinePhone isn't a pocket computer. It is a smartphone, and with keyboard it is not as good as a "working"-enough pocket computer Pyra would be (if it lived and worked good). I miss Pyra, or more exactly the thing Pyra could have been if not so much errors and bad decisions on it.
