#pinebook

[loopednetwork]

Manjaro Repository - Status of mirrors

I really love this page Manjaro has for the status of every mirror. I've experienced problems before with my mirror having issues syncing which didn't result in errors when checking for updates. Instead, the mirror was still online and servicing requests. But it hadn't been in sync for several weeks, so it just always replied that no new updates were available. I periodically find myself hopping over to this page to see if I need to swap mirrors when I feel like it's been a little while since my last round of updates. The rolling release model for Manjaro means they tend to be frequent.

It doesn't help that I don't use my Pinebook Pro all that frequently, so I don't always remember quite how long it's been since I last saw new updates. 😅

[zvaigzdelasas]

Pinetab 2 hardware is very sexy....but softwares still very early state (gonna see if I can port the antenna driver) so probably about 6 months before it's gonna be rly nice for consumer use

[pineguild]

Manjaro ARM's latest stable update: November 15th 2023 Release

Manjaro ARM, the Arch Linux-based operating system tailored for ARM architecture, rolled out a significant update on November 15th 2023, bringing a range of enhancements and updates to its stable release. In this latest update, several key components have received attention to ensure improved performance and stability: Some Kernels got updated Linux-Firmware got updated Plasma got updated to…

[fablethevoid]

Feel bad going to bed because updating my pinebook pro caused the wifi to break but like sadly I don't have time to fix her tonight and it is 1am. Sorry girlie, I'll get you fixed up tomorrow, okay? Just a nice sleep first.

[bookramblings]

Pine

Author: Patrick Ness

Published by: Walker Books

Pages: 325

Format: Hardback

My Rating ★★★★★

‘ They are driving home from the search party when they see her.

The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men.’

Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out on to the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she’s gone.

In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like this are not out of the ordinary. The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren’s mother a decade ago.

Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father’s turbulent mind. Neighbours know more than they let on, but when a local teenager goes missing it’s no longer clear who she can trust.

My thoughts

This novel is really something else. An engrossing story set in the Scottish Highlands; it is wonderfully atmospheric. The plot is tightly woven and superbly written. There are elements of Mystery, Horror, Literary Fiction, Folklore, but at its heart lies a very real, very deep story of a family that has lost its way and a local community that is divided between pity and cruelty.

At the heart of the story is Lauren, aged 10 and a half, living with her father, Niall, in a tiny village near the Moray Firth. Her mother disappeared shortly after she was born, leaving Niall with a painful weight of betrayal that can only be eased with whisky.

It isn’t long before Lauren starts catching sight of a gaunt, bruised woman wearing just a white dressing gown against the cold. Others see her too but forget her the instant she’s gone. This leaves Lauren feeling extremely isolated and scared.

The author builds on this setup slowly for about two thirds of the novel, and then accelerates into thriller territory. But there is undoubtedly a strong sense of unease to the entire novel. The deliberate, mounting dread as the story reaches its conclusion is handled really well and I loved the final pages. 

Throughout the book, the imagery is very intense in conveying the feeling of claustrophobia. The reader is instantly pulled into that atmosphere of a small town and the forest that surrounds it. These intricate details added to the dread that's felt throughout the story. It helped with the character development too, and I enjoyed getting to know each of the characters in such depth, right down to their very specific mannerisms. I really loved the eerie setting of the Scottish Highlands, which brought so much more intensity to the story.

Francine Toon has created an unshakeable atmosphere of solitude and dread. In a place that feels like the end of the world, she brings together the gloom of a modern gothic with the pulse of a thriller. This eerie tale with a supernatural edge is a haunting read. I love unsettling stories and this novel is beautifully unsettling.

Overall reaction:

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PINE64 atrasa envios do PineTab

PINE64 atrasa envios do PineTab

No mês passado, as encomendas para o lote piloto do PineTab foram lançadas e se esgotaram em somente três dias. Com base no blog de junho do PINE64, se você encomendou o PineTab, espera que o envio seja iniciado na última semana de julho. No entanto, infelizmente, de acordo com a atualizaçãomais recente do PineTab, a data de envio foi estendida por mais uma semana. Como diz Lukasz Erecinski, do…

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Pinebook Pro開啟預售：內置瑞芯微六核ARM處理器

不過PINE64的目標並不僅僅是開發板，它已經將產品線擴展到傳統筆電，7月25日，PINE64的筆記本電腦產品Pinebook Pro已經正式開啟預售。

作為一款“旨在提供可靠的日常Linux體驗”的產品，Pinebook Pro將在推出時提供三種不同的操作系統選擇：Linux，Chromium OS和Android 9。

至於配置，其搭載了Rockchip RK3399 SOC，CPU為雙核A72新品+四核A53芯片，GPU則是Mali-T860MP4，相較CPU部分看起來較為過時。

其它配置包括4GB LPDDR4內存，14英寸大小的1080P IPS屏幕，64GB eMMC存儲，10000mAh鋰聚合物電池，802.11ac Wi-Fi和藍牙5.0，前置200萬像素攝像頭。

外觀上，其採用了鎂合金外殼，立體聲揚聲器，插槽包含了USB 2.0、USB3.0、支持視頻輸出的Type-C、Micro-SD卡插槽與PCIe M.2 NVMe插槽。

至於價格，Pinebook Pro定價199.99美元，約合人民幣1375元。

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from Pinebook Pro開啟預售：內置瑞芯微六核ARM處理器 via KKNEWS

[gouforit]

Pinebook, el laptop Linux que cuesta 99 dólares

Pinebook, el laptop Linux que cuesta 99 dólares #pinebook #laptop #linux

Si quieres un portátil de menos de 99 dólares que funcione con una sistema Linux, el Pinebook es tu laptop. Un pequeño ordenador portátil de 11,6″ o 14″ que esta intentando hacerse un hueco entre tanto Chromebook. Lo hemos estado probando durante las últimas semanas y ya te podemos dar nuestra review de este ordenador.

Características del Pinebook de 11,6″

Allwinner A64 Quad Core SOC con…

[wunkolo]

I wish there was a de-facto ARM device everyone had that was actually powerful bc I’m so tired of x86 and would love to commit to a new ISA ecosystem but it’s so fragmented and dumb and weird right now!!!!

[loopednetwork]

Pinebook Pro Bluetooth

After far longer than I care to admit, I finally managed to get a Bluetooth keyboard paired with my Pinebook Pro. My first attempt was to just launch the Bluetooth Adapters application from the Manjaro XFCE main menu. Doing this resulted in absolutely nothing visible. After seeing that this launcher runs:

blueman-adapters

I tried running that from the CLI where I was greeted with an error message that no adapters were found. I knew that wasn't the case since the official page clearly highlights that the device has Bluetooth 5.0 support. I eventually realized that I simply needed to start the service before anything else would work, AKA the first thing I should've checked:

sudo systemctl status bluetooth

This showed the service as disabled, which I could fix via:

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

And:

sudo systemctl start bluetooth

This resulted in the expected Bluetooth icon showing up in XFCE and only reinforced that it was something I probably should've checked first. After this, though, I still needed to get my keyboard paired, which I attempted to do through the Bluetooth Manager application. This allowed me to easily discover devices, though only 2 random devices (presumably from some of my neighbors) showed up, and neither of them was my keyboard. This despite the fact that the keyboard itself was in pairing mode. Multiple rescans showed no difference. I eventually went for the trusted "turn it off and on again" by toggling Bluetooth off and back on. Sure enough, after this my keyboard was finally visible. The initial attempts to pair still failed, though, as Manjaro would provide a code that it wanted me to enter on the keyboard. This worked fine except for the final number in the 6-digit string that it refused to accept the first 2 times I tried. The 3rd time was a charm, though, and after that I could finally use my keyboard... which I just used to type up this post.

I'm glad it's working as I've never been particularly fond of the Pinebook Pro keyboard, which to me has always felt like it actually had too much travel for a laptop due to the fact that the keys feel very smooshy, though that may just be my inner keyboard elitism showing. The keyboard I paired, the Logitech K380, is actually the exact same size as the built-in keyboard, meaning it actually sits on the keys of the Pinebook Pro rather than the frame of the laptop. Despite this, it doesn't seem to have any issues with errant keypresses... yet.

[broadcast-storm]

Pinebook Pro Struggles

My Pinebook Pro has been riding the struggle bus lately. It's at the point where I'm starting to think that I need to drop Manjaro XFCE on it and start considering a different operating system in the hopes that what I'm experiencing are OS issues rather than device or firmware issues. This wouldn't exactly be new territory for me, as just a couple of months ago I finally gave up on using Manjaro XFCE on my Star Lite laptop. I simply ran into too many bugs with Manjaro and swapped to Xubuntu, where things have been going much more smoothly for me. I'm not confident that an OS swap will fix what I'm experiencing now, though.

Initially, Manjaro was a significant step up for my Pinebook Pro, which is old enough that I received it running the old Debian image that was so highly customized that a sizable number of software packages on it couldn't be updated, making it a security breach waiting to happen. After seeing the amount of love that Manjaro was getting in the Pine64 community, though, and how invested the Manjaro folks seemed to be in working well with the Pinebook Pro hardware, it seemed like a smart move. When Manjaro KDE became the default OS on new Pinebook Pro units, I decided to flash Manjaro XFCE onto my device's eMMC. It was exciting to go from not being able to update anything to having updates available constantly. I'd typically only use my device once or twice a week, and basically every time I fired it up there would be a significant number of updates available.

The honeymoon didn't last forever, though. One of the initial issues I saw was with respect to the battery. Unlike Debian, Manjaro features both a "Suspend" and "Hibernate" mode for sleeping the device. To my understanding, Suspend is supposed to remove power from most of the hardware but keeps the RAM warm to facilitate waking seamlessly and rapidly, though this obviously comes at the cost of draining the battery more to keep the RAM powered up. When using Suspend, I could let the device sit for about a day and half before it would be completely drained. Hibernate, on the other hand, writes the content of RAM to the swap space -- enabling Hibernate will actually fail if you've forgotten to create a swap space -- to save on power but still allow for the state of the device to be saved. That being said, if you don't have any applications waiting between sessions, the time to return from Hibernate and to boot from being fully powered off is, to the best that I can tell, exactly the same. As a result, I'm better off simply shutting my device down between uses.

While the battery can cause annoyance, I've since discovered far more significant issues. One is that the wireless NIC is periodically not recognized by the operating system when I either boot or wake the device. It'll simply show that no network devices are available, and using the XFCE UI to toggle networking off and back on makes no difference. If I was more savvy in the realm of Manjaro/Arch, I may be able to do some further troubleshooting via the CLI. Given that Debian-based distros are my forte, though, I typically just reboot and hope for the best since that's faster than grabbing another device which is connected to the Internet in order to start looking up solutions. A reboot will typically fix the issue, but not always. Earlier this week, I had the exact same behavior after a reboot. At that point I just shut down my Pinebook Pro and used another device for what I wanted to do. I left the device off until I decided to write this post, and I was happy that after a few days of sitting in the corner my laptop was able to connect to WiFi once again.

The firmware woes don't end there, unfortunately. The trackpad on the Pinebook Pro has always been a bit of an issue, with a very noticeable latency when using it that made precise movements very difficult. Clicking large buttons on web pages was simple, for example, while clicking the small x buttons in XFCE to close application was a struggle... especially for applications which weren't fullscreen, meaning that the button wasn't forced into the top-right corner of the screen. I had hoped that this problem was about to be solved a few months ago when new firmware was released that dramatically reduced the latency. After following the well-written community documentation to go through the slightly nerve wracking process of flashing the new firmware -- which included a small but non-zero chance that the ability to use the trackpad could be completely bricked -- things were working much better for me... until they weren't.

While the new firmware worked great most of the time, I started to periodically see problems where touching the trackpad with my finger would cause the cursor to "jolt" as if simply touching the surface were registering that I moved my finger about an inch or so either up or down. This wouldn't typically manifest itself immediately after a wake or boot, but would randomly crop up after I had been using the device for some time. When it happened, though, it made using the device nearly impossible. While I could fight against it to move the cursor where I needed it to be, lifting my finger off the trackpad and then tapping down to register a click would cause the cursor to jump either up or down, meaning that I was clicking on either 1.) nothing or 2.) the wrong thing. At that point, I was back to struggling to interface with the device enough to reboot it and hoping for the best after that.

While trying to write this post the first time, I ran into yet another issue which may be related to the last problem and may be something entirely new. While using the Tumblr web UI to write the post, my device suddenly kicked me back to the login screen as if I had opted to lock the screen. Weird. I tried to enter my password in order to log in only to discover that the keyboard wasn't working. I could still use the trackpad to move the mouse cursor, but tapping on it would no longer register as a click. I eventually discovered that I could still physically press the trackpad to click and used that to just reboot the device rather than running off to dig up an external keyboard that I could connect. The reboot once again seems to have restored functionality, though I lost all of the blog content that I had written.

While I'd like to switch operating systems and get away from Manjaro since that made my life significantly better on my Star Lite, I'm at least a little concerned that my issues are mostly firmware related and may not be fixed by a different flavor of Linux. If I do switch to anything different, I'd prefer it to be Armbian since I'm most familiar with Debian-based distros.

It's also worth mentioning in closing that trying to use the device in the way that I am is explicitly not what the Pinebook Pro is designed for. It's meant to be used by people wanting to do things with the ARM processor, and bugs like this are something to be expected in a community effort this large. I definitely don't mean to throw shade at the work anyone in the Pine64 or Manjaro communities is doing; it's my issue for how I'm wanting to use the device. I'm still hoping, though, that I can find a configuration a bit more stable so that I can basically have a Linux laptop that amounts to a full POSIX-compliant terminal and a decent web browser.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Pine update time (now available in video form)

Next CE will be KDE, available beginning of December. $150 for regular, $200 for "convergence package" (more RAM, more storage, USBC dongle - upgraded board also available standalone in-store)

Qi wireless charging case add on soon to enter production, available early next year

Next generation of Pine64 boards will use the RK3566A SOC, hints towards "future plans" involving next gen stuff using it

Pinecil available in store later this month/sometime december

[aneddoticamagazinestuff]

PINE64 stand @ FOSDEM 2019

New Post has been published on https://www.aneddoticamagazine.com/pine64-stand-fosdem-2019/

PINE64 stand @ FOSDEM 2019

PINE64 stand @ FOSDEM 2019 Preview of :

PineBook Pro

PinePhone

PineH64

SNES Case

PineCam

[tilos-tagebuch]

Mit dem Update ist eine vollständige Portierung auf die 64-Bit-ARM-Architektur verfügbar, für eine Reihe von ARM-Plattformen stellt OpenMandriva installierbare Images bereit, unter anderem für den Raspberry Pi 4B und 3B+, das PinebookPro und die Raspberry-Alternative Rock Pi.

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