S01E05: Marching On

In the fifth episode of PineTalk, Ezra and Peter discuss a few aspects of the latest Community Update, PineCube news, the component shortage and answer a few of your questions. BTW: Keep getting them in!

What have we been up to lately?

• Ezra recently finished working on the codebase of a project: It’s a fan game, written in C from the engine to the game.
• Peter has re-installed his laptop with pre-release Fedora 34 Workstation and have been enjoying GNOME 40 since. Also, the LINMOBapps Game list is maintained again, thanks to Moxvallix for taking it on!

Community News

March Update

• PINE64 March Update
  • PinePhone Beta Edition
  • PineBook Pro availability (only ANSI keyboards)
    • Is it possible to switch keyboards later on? Yes: See e.g. this video.
  • PineTime (something we are both yet to receive)
    • New bootloader
    • InfiniTime update:
      • InfiniTime 0.14 “Green Avocado” (actually, they have released 0.15.0 “Yellow Banana” in the meantime!)
      • LVGL (LVGL post by LEE Lup Yuen)
    • WaspOS 0.4 release
    • More links
      • GadgetBridge
      • Amazfish
      • Wikipedia: Demoscene

PineCube as a Web Cam

• Chris McGee has been enabling the PineCube for use as a web cam and shared his findings on the PINE64 doc page

Component Shortage

• Component shortage (requested by danct12 and thanosthetankengine in discord)
  • Further reading:
  • Ars Technica: A silicon chip shortage is causing automakers to idle their factories
  • Bloomberg: Chip Shortage Spirals Beyond Cars to Phones and Consoles
  • Reuters: Qualcomm struggles to meet chip demand as shortage spreads to phones: sources
  • Recommendations for PineTab content:
    • Linux Lounge: Odysee, PeerTube, YouTube
    • Privacy and Tech Tips: Odysee, YouTube

Peter talks about his ROCKPro64

• Mastodon thread
• ROCKPro64 PREMIUM ALUMINUM CASING
• HP Elite X3 Lap Dock (ZDNet Review)
• Pine64 docs: ROCKPro64
• Twister OS Armbian

Listener Questions

• Anders asks whether the development of the PinePhone or any other Linux Phone will actually ever be finished, or like so many other open software things be stuck in an endless loop of development?
  • xnux.eu: Some PinePhone updates
• Danny Medina asks about PineBook Pro upgradability:
  • Upgradable ARM laptop: MNT Reform
  • CNX Software: Rockchip RK3588 revealed

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