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This is like advertising the latest achievements during Space Race, when Johnny just wants a Space Helmet and “friendly futuristic AI robot helping humanity, glowing blue eyes, white glossy body, holographic interface, floating transparent screens, digital particles, neural network background, cinematic lighting, volumetric god rays, ultra detailed, hyper realistic, 8K, masterpiece, award-winning, octane render, Unreal Engine 5, ray tracing, sharp focus, dramatic composition, vibrant blue and purple color palette, futuristic technology, innovation, hope, smiling business professionals, depth of field”

itomatoon Jolla Phone, Over 13 500 units sold

If this Sailfish phone is 700 and Commodore's is 500, I know which Sailfish device I can pay attention to.

itomatoon Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark

Why are people using what used to be Twitter in seriousness?

itomatoon I built a GPU back end for Emacs

This should also compile to WASM, and support WebGPU, not that I’m advocating for it.

itomatoon Half-Life 2 in a Browser

…while inside Jira working on a ticket.

https://github.com/wjkennedy/jira-quake3

itomatoon Half-Life 2 in a Browser

You’re thinking of Facebook, and you can still get that.

itomatoon Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

Spam is not the way to win hearts and minds

itomatoon Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion

Macromedia Flash vibes.

Don’t stop.

itomatoon Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?

Beowulf time?

I had been maintaining a fork of the U of KY BDR with SBCs and Arm devices in mind, might need to revive it for RISC-V.

itomatoon Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?

Yes, and if they have done the hard work to deliver features in the kernel that provide a moat, that blob is the hardware.

Reversing and reimplementing the closed bits are what I want my Buildroot pipelines to do.

That’s my use case though; targeting COTS devices with (mainline) Linux support that don’t do all they could.

I have done it the ugly way (in production) and I want elegance in my old age.

itomatoon Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?

I heard it’s going to be called emacs.

itomatoon Steam Machine launches today

All games are free then?

itomatoon Steam Machine launches today

For people who are already throwing money at Valve on a monthly subscription and might otherwise have bought something from Sony or Microsoft, or more likely, will also buy something from Sony or Microsoft.

The consumerist mindset accepts this device.

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

But you need a Meta account??

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

We have had that in various forms for a while now without the grandiose visions and gatekeeping.

The exact same module in fact has been around for a while. Battery is ancient. T9 is ancient.

I have a $70 Linux box in my pocket already. It runs a Buildroot distro and the only real difference is an LTE PHY.

I have lived through the Nokia internet tablet and I’m surprised this isn’t what people aspire to.

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

Might as well get an Android flip phone?

Cheaper with a more powerful SOC and better feature set?

Disable your own features, don’t let Perifractic own you.

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

The BOM speaks for itself

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

The whole concept is hitting me like a Google studio AI suggestion taken to the extreme with contract manufacturing somehow on-tap.

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

It’s not even a dumb phone. It’s a WhatsApp flip phone.

itomatoon The Commodore Callback 8020 smart flip phone

Not really, it’s a 5 year old SOC that runs Sailfish.

You want a Linux box in your pocket? Why does a flip phone factor excite you?

itomatoon Wasi: WebGPU – A Proposed WebAssembly System Interface API

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