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| 02:50.17 | ericxdu | I was looking at all the toys being sold for the Christmas season today, and realized they have a bit in common with throw-away computers |
| 03:29.08 | lkcl | ericxdu: yay! |
| 03:36.35 | ericxdu | I mean I guess they're able to remain useful to someone for several years, or even a lifetime, but most of them look so specialized that I imagine them being thrown away after a year |
| 03:40.41 | ericxdu | Then again, I guess by their nature toys don't become obsolete. You can buy new dolls that will work with your dollhouse for instance |
| 03:40.48 | ericxdu | Not that I have a dollhouse. :-P |
| 04:03.51 | ericxdu | As someone pointed out to me here, the A20 card will have 2x the memory of Beaglebone Black. That's gotta be a huge performance boost even with only 1 GHz |
| 04:05.05 | ericxdu | Compable to my netbook from 2009 |
| 04:08.09 | arkimedes | is the only difference in the computer cards the operating system other than the Libre Tea one? |
| 04:18.07 | ericxdu | arkimedes: I had not heard of the Libre Tea being any different from the other cards. Do any of them use MALI? |
| 04:18.27 | ericxdu | foolishly asks the asker |
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| 04:23.43 | ericxdu | I'm just surprised I never thought of that. I know the one going for RYF certification won't use mali, and I assumed the others wouldn't either |
| 04:31.56 | arkimedes | lkcl ^ |
| 04:32.53 | arkimedes | also is there any wifi inlcuded in the cards or the laptop housing? |
| 04:40.00 | ericxdu | arkimedes: that re: wifi I can pretty confidently say no. Although the laptop housing is designed so you can plug a wifi dongle *inside* the case for convenience |
| 04:40.29 | arkimedes | how many usb ports does the libre tea have? |
| 04:52.16 | ericxdu | arkimedes: the card itself just has one usb-otg. This means you'll need some extra cables/hubs to be able to both power the card and plug in usb devices |
| 04:58.07 | arkimedes | so you cant power it and connect a usb hub? |
| 04:59.57 | ericxdu | arkimedes: you can, but you need a somewhat specialized cable. Its available on the crowdsupply page so I ordered one with my card |
| 05:02.04 | ericxdu | arkimedes: its a cable that provides power to the card, but also a single USB port which you can plug a hub into. |
| 05:11.16 | lkcl | arkimedes: anyone is free to to absolutely anything they want with the Cards. they are entirely at liberty to put absolutely any proprietary OS or any proprietary software on them. |
| 05:11.26 | lkcl | they just will not get any assistance from me in doing so. |
| 05:12.11 | lkcl | arkimedes: the EOMA68-A20 has three USB ports. two on the EOMA68 connector and a standard Micro USB-OTG on the front-facing end. |
| 05:13.35 | lkcl | arkimedes: the cable is called an "OTG Host Power" cable. it's a special 3-way cable. finding the right one which *ACTUALLY* provides power to the OTG port *AND* provides power to the USB Host connector is an absolute bitch. |
| 05:13.40 | lkcl | arkimedes: most of the cables that you can find online either: |
| 05:13.50 | lkcl | * provide power but do not provide USB Host connectivity |
| 05:14.04 | lkcl | * provide USB Host connectivity but do not provide power |
| 05:14.27 | lkcl | * **CLAIM** to provide power and USB Host but actually fail completely and utterly to be as advertised |
| 05:15.35 | lkcl | i had to double-check over 5 separate and distinct reviews to confirm that the cable that was found actually does the job, then bought three just to make sure i would get one that worked |
| 05:25.23 | ericxdu | lckl, thanks, I was oversimplifying it a bit |
| 05:57.02 | ericxdu | I'm disappointed I haven't been able to compile EmulationStation for armv7 yet |
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| 07:41.11 | ericxdu | Someday |
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| 07:45.40 | ericxdu | I'll see if it builds on the A20. |
| 07:46.22 | ericxdu | Just tried mazeofgalious on the bbb and it ran just a little sluggish. Playable. |
| 08:08.10 | ericxdu | I had an idea to distribute just a few libre games via 0install to arm machines like the A20, but managing dependencies has proven difficult especially considering most games are just a pacman -S away |