All podcastsS01E05: 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)
InfiniTime update:
InfiniTime 0.14 "Green Avocado" (actually, they have released 0.15.0 "Yellow Banana" in the meantime!)
More links
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:
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
Feedback welcome!
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