The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer
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Private messenger using something like Briar in a protest environment?
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If it runs modern Linux, there's enough bloat even compared to Windows 2000.
COMMENT: further I've completely forgot what you were saying, so wrote a very loosely connected text.
I agree in dreams, but in truth no piece of tech will change life. Life changes tech. Today's tech environment wouldn't happen were social environment different.
If we want to make computing better, we need to be able to live without computing.
To make downtime acceptable. Same as with repairing floors in a hoarder's apartment, you need to remove all the furniture and junk first. So you (being the hoarder) need to be able to live just fine without what's in that room for a few weeks (I know ideally the process takes much less time).
The reason Facebook and others are so powerful and competition doesn't work is because many people can't live without what they rely upon as utilities.
And the "users mustn't think, users mustn't overcome themselves" mantra is commercial bullshit. Users are humans and are responsible for themselves. We can help them become more responsible. We can't pretend humans are not responsible.
Because ultimately only humans exist and tools are tools.
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Is there a modem included for LTE?
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Playing cataclysm DDA in a zombie apocalypse.
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I can recommend his youtube video about it. It’s quite a nice build.
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There is no such LTE modem mentioned in the article, neither in images, so I think there is none. Yet, one image says WiFi...
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RP2040 Pico for CPU and PicoVision from Pimoroni as GPU. His own micro-OS doesn't run Android apps.
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You all downvote but that OS runs on a microcontroller. No need for a UEFI running a bootstrap running a OS that initializes locales for a console that runs a display server that initializes locale settings again to run a webbrowser with his own locale settings for simulating desktop apps.
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It's a Pi Pico. Linux can technically work there, but it's more of a "I ported Doom to a Casio calculator watch" project than anything practical.
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Doom is one of the examples for the PicoVision. It might need some hacking to get the keyboard to work since I think he used I2C to connect it instead of USB, but it can definitely run Doom.
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Oh. My bad. Then interesting, something RSX-level on a little deck, with a something-commander and a snake game. Fun like it's 1983.
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Pop on Meshtasic and maybe a Signal client, and I think this could be useful. Fold-out keyboard might be nice, too, but it does take some careful mechanical engineering to make robust hinges.
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Signal as in those folks whose desktop client for Linux is on electronjs.
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There's no reason it has to be that way on a small computer like this. It does have to be able to handle some encryption, though.
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With LTE working, I could see me ditching my phone for a device like this
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Add meshtastic and it'd be a nice little texting device without relying on external networks.
There's often been times at kink spaces where I want to check the time or send a text or something, but phones or anything that has a camera are banned.
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I think I’m slowly starting to understand the use cases of these small form factor computers. Pretty much Swiss Army knives in computer form.
Makes sense that people are trying to sell them commercially now, even if they are bit experimental and don’t have a defined use case as of yet.
Plus it just looks cool.
