2021-06-30.log

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Asmadeusjackhill: I have the same problem as you with the trackball btw (rough in one direction), I got some bearings so just need to take the time to set it up and try00:24
Asmadeus(will probably take a few weeks, I don't have anything to poke holes in here...)00:25
sbpjust make sure you don't do what https://genodians.org/nfeske/2021-04-10-mntre-trackball did00:25
Asmadeusyes that's where the idea came from, very insightful read :)00:27
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sbpI like the pix in https://social.unx.pw/notice/A8bJwCVZdqnYkqufAm00:32
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+ odnes (~odnes@109-178-242-34.pat.ren.cosmote.net)08:34
ex-parrothttps://img.hotplate.co.nz/dZdPGEAY got some nice industrial looking black screws to fix up the keyboard09:33
ex-parrotslightly hampers the otherwise excellent field serviceability by not being philips 09:33
ex-parrotBut I can live with it :)09:33
ex-parrotI got my home wifi working just fine by switching from connman to network manager 10:07
ex-parrotI am probably making things harder for myself by having my home wifi SSID be the spider emoji 10:08
scopsxD10:27
ex-parrotTho I managed to connect to a different emoji network with connman so it can’t be just that 10:38
+ ian (~ian@38.75.239.86)10:39
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mntmnex-parrot: nice screws!11:13
mntmnex-parrot: the wifi thing could be about reg db, maybe connman doesn't take care of that (i could imagine other freqs/channels in use in NZ)11:14
ex-parrotah yes, I thought about that then also completely forgot about that 11:15
ex-parroteither way it’s resolved, I hate to admit to liking network manager but I am at least familiar with it :P11:15
mntmnwell if it works, that's very good!11:16
ex-parrotI just started a new job so my reform hacking is at about 15 minutes / day currently but it seems good 11:16
ex-parrotTomorrow I’m hosting a local hacker meet up event in the evening, will take the Reform along to show off 11:16
ex-parrotI think the next small thing to do is put a tiny piece of double sided tape under the antenna holder acrylic so it doesn’t flap as much 11:17
mntmnawesome11:21
mntmnex-parrot: yeah, the holder's design can be improved11:21
ex-parrotit gets the job done 11:21
ex-parrotIt’s better than the novena where they were just like “idk just stick the antenna somewhere inside the case”11:22
ex-parrotI had a bit of a play with the standby script this evening too. I think I should be able to translate the script in to systemd hooks so “systemctl suspend” would just work. I’ll get myself set up on gitlab this weekend so I can start sending patches hopefully 11:23
mntmnex-parrot: awesome! were you able to reliably wake up reform from sleep?11:38
mntmnex-parrot: btw do you use nvme or sd card only?11:38
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ex-parrotmntmn: I tried exactly once and it woke up perfectly. I saw some errors related to the nvme coming out of the kernel during resume but I’m only booting from the SD card so far 12:01
ex-parrotI did note that the keyboard backlight doesn’t go out in suspensd either but I can understand why that isn’t implemented at the moment :P12:02
ex-parrotI need to go and read / understand the boot process a bit better before I set up the nvme 12:02
ex-parrot(Tho the device is there at least and seems to be working)12:03
+ mjw (~mjw_@2001:1c06:2487:f800:9e5c:8eff:fe8f:a440)12:07
ex-parrotI’m using the nvme included in the “max” tier 12:08
mjwmntmn, sorry, you probably hate these questions, working as hard as you can, but any word on when the keyboards might ship?12:35
mjwACTION finds https://shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-reform-usb-keyboard-standalone has been updated.12:36
mjwSorry, could have found out myself. "Pre-orders of the first batch are expected to ship in July/August 2021 (Updated on 2021-06-29)."12:36
mjwcool, thanks12:36
+ reform18086 (~jc@2605:a601:a490:5900:e8c5:ed1c:719a:462c)12:50
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mntmnmjw: oh yeah, just updated yesterday. i wanted to make 1 design fix first, and then produce the cases. the keyboard electronics are in stock.13:16
mntmnex-parrot: alright, thanks. for me the suspend/wake is hit/miss (system on nvme, luks encrypted)13:16
mjwmntmn, O, and I see the new mnt reform crowdsupply preorders have been moved to September 29. Is that for the whole batch?13:21
mjw(Once I got my own I got so excited I ordered another for a friend.)13:21
mntmnmjw: oh cool! no, this is the target for _new_ orders13:21
mntmnit's kind of the target of catching up with all current orders13:22
mntmnincl some buffer13:22
mjwmntmn, crowdsupply did change mine from:13:22
mjwOriginally estimated to ship on May 18, 202113:22
mjwCurrently estimated to ship on Sep 29, 202113:22
mjwNow I knew May 18 was unrealistic :)13:23
mntmnthey probably can't differentiate batches13:23
mntmnand i have no control over it, i can't even see the orders13:23
mjwO, that is bad. Should I have ordered through the shop instead?13:23
mntmnyou can't order through the shop r/n13:24
mntmnthat was online for a few days but then i was reminded by CS that it is not ok as per our agreement13:24
mntmnso we can't sell any more in the shop until we have shipped crowdfunded orders.13:24
mntmnit's kind of a complicated situation because i know a lot of people would like to order directly from germany.13:24
mjwMy friend lives across the ocean in the USA, so he won't mind :)13:25
mntmnyeah, that's good then13:25
mntmnbut it also means we can't make any money on more presales atm13:26
mjwSo first get all the crowdfunded reforms out the door!13:26
mntmnwell, obviously13:27
scopsif someone interessted in testing seamonkey - i just compiled the 2.53.8 release: https://github.com/codeandcreate/seamonkey-debian-arm64/releases/tag/2.53.8-1 :)13:35
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mjwmntmn, hope you aren't stressing too much about all the shipping and ordering. Running a business. I am glad I am not. But I am glad you do. Really loving the mnt reform. And I even got a controller and played earthbound on it. So at least you made me relax :)13:39
mntmnmjw: ha, nice!13:40
mntmnthanks scops 13:40
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scopsonce the seamonkey project has backported some changes made in firefox they will release official releases, they said  - mostly webrtc is still a problem...13:45
mntmnscops: aarch64 release?13:48
mntmni am servicing a reform that was thoroughly damaged probably by https://community.mnt.re/t/mnt-reform-first-eu-batch-do-this-safety-modification/29214:02
mntmnso if you were in the first EU batch, i would ask you again to make sure this short can't happen in your device14:03
mntmnfor later batches we have already done it14:03
scops<mntmn "scops: aarch64 release?"> yes14:19
mjwhmmm14:38
mjwmntmn, I remember you also had some other modification for the first batch, is there an overview page? If you have batch x - do modifications y and z?14:40
scops<mntmn "so if you were in the first EU b"> i have put duct tape between the pins and the keyboard... so there shouldnt be a problem anymore...14:40
mntmnscops: yep, good14:42
mjwI probably should make sure my cat doesn't jump on the keyboard :}14:42
mntmnmjw: one is a resistor modification for better charging (optional), the other is this safety fix14:42
mntmnmjw: the safety fix is much more important, because it can just kill the keyboard MCU and the IMX14:43
mjwok, will try to do the second tonight then.14:43
mntmnmjw: thanks!14:44
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jackhillmntmn: where do I look to read/understand the uboot configuration? Is it all done at compile time?18:02
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mntmnjackhill: all done at compile time yes18:27
jackhillcool18:28
mntmnjackhill: there's a "setenv" compiled in18:29
mntmnjackhill: https://source.mnt.re/reform/reform-boundary-uboot/-/blob/master/board/boundary/nitrogen8m_som/nitrogen8m_som.c#L34218:30
jackhillthanks18:31
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scopshmmm i attached a bluray burner (which is recognized by lsusb) on usb... put an audio cd in... and nothing happend... something like /dev/cdrom isnt there... does anyone have an idea what i can do?19:40
scopsthunar doesnt see the cd19:41
mntmnscops: what does dmesg say19:53
- freakazoid333 (QUIT: Read error: Connection reset by peer) (~freakazoi@72.168.176.80)19:53
scopshm ok to /dev/sg0 but i cant mount it "no block device"19:54
scopsok i think my problem was just that all apps i tried  just doesnt work... ripperx finds the cd x.x19:58
scopssorry19:58
mntmnscops: an audio cd does not have a file system19:58
mntmnscops: it has... audio tracks19:59
mntmnmplayer might be able to play it, but idk, i have never tried this and also don't have optical usb drives20:00
mntmnonly a usb floppy ^^20:00
swivelhmmm, back in the days of ATAPI and SCSI-2 CDROMs there would be an analog audio cable connecting the drive to the sound card, and playing audio CDs would be an integrated function of the drive that software would just control at a high level like "play track N", and the drive itself would do the playback sending the audio directly to the sound card.  It's unclear to me how that happens with external 20:04
swiveldrives lacking the analog audio signal path20:04
mntmnthat's one way, but the cdrom can also extract the tracks as data, aka "ripping"20:05
swivelyeah, cdparanoia is what i used to use for that20:05
swivelbut that's not the way cd audio player frontends operate, that's generally just for ripping20:06
swivelmy buddy back in the day made a tool called 'respeed' for listening to his EDM CDs at higher speeds via the data ripping method, this was back when we had 486s and he wasted weeks getting things working well enough to not skip whenever he did something like `ls` on his linux box while listening to a CD played faster... good times, feeling old.20:09
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scopsripperx seems to work well in ripping cds :)20:15
scopsthe freedb link is quite old... xD but besides that it works20:15
swivelive never used ripperx, but i do recall there being important details in how the ripper tools handled read errors (due to scratches usually) and cdparanoia had some interesting flags for controlling how many times it would re-read the data to identify errors the drive is transparently "correcting" and i think it interpolated between the many samples20:18
khmhandling read errors was important beacuse copy protection usually showed up as read errors20:20
swivelim sure that was true to some extent, but in cdparanoia it's more about flawless rips in the face of unreliable hardware and/or scratched media... check out the status emoticons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdparanoia#Status_indicators20:24
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scopshm... really strange with cd rippers... just ripperx finds the cdrom (dev/sg0)... all other tools just doesnt see anyting22:01
scops+h22:01
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jackhillI submitted the Reform repositories for archiving at https://www.softwareheritage.org/ :)22:40
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