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next up: build own micro-grid and automate export to the grid based on price and weather forecasts
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@hi you got your battery, nice! what did you end up getting?
currently getting my wiring and inverters up-to-snuff to be able to plug the car in but we have been, likewise, completely self sufficient with the batteries never dipping below 50%...
i was thinking about a rowing machine for long time, but was not sure if there is enough space for it in my tiny home gym. this end up very well: rowerg is quite compact and light.
it's not as fun as running outdoors, but there are many pros for me:
- it shows my current heart rate in big digits (it supports garmin watch and heart rate monitor)
- works in any weather (winters are quite icy here for running every day, also there are no bears, wolves, or lynxes indoors)
- helps to do cardio more consistently (rowing is easier to start, no need to carry my phone, keys, head lamp, etc)
- perfect for full body warm up before lifing weights
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@hi cons: it doesn’t charge the external batteries that will recharge the phones during night ;-D (yet?)
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> i still plan to run from time to time, but just for fun
I see the words you type, but they make no sense… 😆
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so far we've presold 12x MNT Quasar 6490 modules, that's 50% of what we need to kick off the first batch. feel free to send me some promo ideas. should i make a video showing the general performance? who would be your favorite reviewer for the Quasar Pocket Reform?
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@mntmn Out of curiosity: How many 7zip-MIPS for 1 core, and how many all cores? (p7zip v.16)
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@goetz interestingly on 8550 i currently get a 27508 total score, decompressing scores are very similar but compressing is faster, 29608 in the first run and then throttles to ~24600
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very preliminary Quasar 8550 "7z b" scores on MNT Reform Next
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@mntmn Could you perhaps run it with »7za b -mmt1«, again, for 1 thread? Some CPUs then clock the single core used higher.
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@goetz here you go! it didn't want to boost to 3.1ghz on the X-3 automatically (reason yet unknown) but with userspace governor i was able to manually set it to 3.1ghz. doesn't make a huge difference though, probably thermals related (passive cooled):
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@mntmn thanks a lot! will add it to my 7zip bench list of systems, too
Still need to have the luck to touch a MNT book somewhere, for haptic trial …
@mntmn Ah, just noticed, you’re using 7zip 26.x something. AFAIK these newer versions has different benchmark results than the pre-18 ones, so can’t add it to my list, unfortunately. Still good to have some numbers to compare with my M1
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@mntmn@mastodon.social The alt mode is nice but I read it requires a new mainboard, not something most people interested in upgrading would have, hmm
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@bunny right, that's a bit tricky
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I could imagine that some demo of sorts on how to run the old main board in a standalone configuration (in the upcoming MNT case maybe?) would be interesting and tempt people. I know I am in that group considering what I would do with the HW potentially obsoleted by the upgrade before taking the plunge.
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@mntmn Does orders placed for Pocket Reform with Quasar 6490 count towards the initial goal for 25 units?
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@siviq yes!
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@mntmn Very good. :) Also you may want to promote the MNT Quasar and Pocket at ExplainingComputers YT channel. https://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers
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@mntmn It'd be really cool if The Verge reviewed it, but they might also weight the price/performance ratio pretty strongly against the big-name manufacturers. I remember they did spotlight the Pocket in a short a while back though
see also
unix: a history and a memoir by brian kernighan
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summary--what's most important. to put my strongest concerns in a nutshell: 1. we should have some ways of coupling programs like garden hose--screw in another segment when it becomes necessary to massage data in another way
i'm very happy to present the first release of the Barebox bootloader tailored for MNT Pocket Reform with RK3588 processor, bringing you an advanced bootloader with graphics and comfy shell: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/releases/2026-06-18
this is the culmination of an 8-months part time effort, mostly by @ailurux who ported all the missing display drivers and did a lot of bugfixing and polishing, with some little spikes by myself here and there. also thanks to @a3f for the friendly support navigating @barebox code.
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3 seconds after powerup, an MNT logo+rainbow icon appears in the top right corner of the display
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the system will autoboot in 2 seconds, but if you press "m" (there's a prompt + countdown for that), you can enter the boot menu where you can select a system to boot or enter the shell.
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here i selected the bootsources menu which shows me some of the Debian Linux kernel versions installed. this also supports EFI and extlinux.
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the shell is quite unix/posix-like with commands like "ls", "cd", "cat" etc.there's a virtual filesystem, mounts and networking.
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@ailurux @a3f @barebox we also have a fixup script for booting the current OpenBSD aarch64 image including instructions to get started: https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-barebox/-/blob/main/README-mnt.md#booting-openbsd
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@ailurux @a3f @barebox BTW the MNT logo with rainbow in the corner is a nod to the very first MNT Reform 1.0 from January 2019, with i.MX6QP processor (damn, that's over 7 years ago)
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@hi my friend wants to know also.
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can't remember if i shared this fun computer thing i made
it's a lil toy for interactively exploring 1-bit dither — including my beloved Atkinson dither from the MacPaint era — by playing with it like it's a board game
try it here, but note there's zero instruction and the UI is full of secrets: https://www.inkandswitch.com/tangents/dither-explorer/
or, more fun, watch me explain how it works by saying words and moving my hands a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vZcmWhTeOM&list=PLCC8lmauZTzeEP7mIsOOI4HKeeyBN2rIy&index=5&t=114s
trip out, have fun <3
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@spiralganglion love this.
wondering what else is in tangents 🤔
good dithering pattern always consists of multiple names :)
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@hi do you have a favourite name?
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The Dillo browser has an excellent directory of bookmarks! If you have ideas that might be a good fit, suggest them at the bottom of the page.
https://dir.dillo-browser.org/
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3200 x 2400 @ 60 hz
0.69 kg
$719 color
$619 mono
https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow
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@hi why do you like this, it doesn’t seem to do 80x25 console 😆
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The other day, during $WORK lunch, they asked me if I watched the football match.
So they receive my whole bucket of vomit - about FIFA, Football spectacle shit, insane income for playing and lame appropriation of others work in the context of soft international wars - in the face.
I must have talked a bit emmotionnal because they thought I was angry. I was not, I just can’t stand mediocracy - and I believe this Football slop is a good example of it.
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OK, here's some stupid fun:
I like to put an emoji before links to my podcast. Which do you think is better to represent YouTube?
| 📺: | 86 |
| 🎬: | 16 |
| Other: | 24 |
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@grammargirl Whoops, voted Other after reading the "podcast" bit, figuring a 🎙️ or 🎤 would be a better choice; but for a YouTube portion with video, the 1st 📺 wins for me.
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Ah, another one of these "if you just kept an open mind, you'd see that this AI stuff is actually not all bad" posts. A "communicator" who softly tells all of us who disagree that we're wrong, but it's not really our fault, we're just too damn stupid. Great. 🤮
(Sorry @nathanael but you posted it. And got me to read it. So now you're tagged. But the emoji was not for you. Unless you are in fact Armin.)
I was missing a good image viewer to flip through folders with hundreds of chr and icn pixelart files, so I wrote one!
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/uxn-utils/tree/main/item/gui/image/src/image.tal
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Randomly thought, with lingering disappointment and sadness, about Artemy Lebedev, a former hero of mine 🥲
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Someone just demonstrated that the entire Uxn toolchain can be reconstructed from nothing but a POSIX shell, xxd and sed. It's down to taking 34 minutes to build the Uxntal assembler.
bootstrap: https://joe.cz/uxn/uxn1b-drifloon.txt
repo: https://gitlab.com/racketeer/uxnsh
#uxn
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@neauoire that's the kind of tech development I like to see.
yet what we get on the news is a slopfestival
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@capeta I don't think most people would be interested in this kind of stuff X) gotta get off the newsfeeds!
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@neauoire Hmm, browsed the code a bit, it uses `local`, which is not POSIX, so this seems to be bash/zsh specific. Still, really cool, and shouldn't take much effort to port it to plain POSIX sh.
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OpenBSD 7.9 will be deployed on the hosts as soon as possible!
We want to wait for the first errata to appear.
21 new VMs were added and 61 VMs were renewed.
We donated €1125 to the #OpenBSD Foundation, €66755 since we started.
Thank you, our users, and OpenBSD developers for an awesome OS!
Stay safe, healthy & sane!
#RUNBSD in 2026
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Phoebe Teaching Joey refers to a scene from the Friends television series in which character Phoebe Buffay attempts to teach character Joey Tribbiani French by making him repeat words after her. In March 2020, the scene gained popularity in memes online, with Phoebe attempting to explain various concepts to Joey but ultimately failing.
This one has the following exchange:
Phoebe: Just
Joey: Just
Phoebe: Update
Joey: Update
Phoebe: And
Joey: And
Phoebe: Shutdown
Joey: Update And Restart
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Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist.
A really neat idea.
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Is it me or does Apple Music feel like a alpha product? Hickups, frame skips, weird crashes … what is going on?
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OpenBSD on MNT Pocket Reform (with RK3588)! next question: can it rotate the framebuffer console?
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installing openbsd over usb network to a usb stick!
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installing openbsd over usb network to a usb stick!
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nice, sshd works too! > Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system.
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okaay, worked with a tiny xorg.conf and setting `Option "Rotate" "CCW"` for `Driver "wsfb"`
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Gretchen the Goblin [they/them if you wanna be polite she/her if you wanna flirt] » 🌐
@goblin@girlcock.club
@mntmn oh dont do this id love one but i cannot afford one right now this is all too tempting
# pkg_add qutebrowser#openbsd
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@cararemixed it is extremely snappy as it's just cpu writing pixels to framebuffer with nothing in between...
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@mntmn oh yeah, openbsd does that :D this way, even if a bad actor get a stack overflow, calling instruction at a fixed offset result in random instruction. This way, a working exploit need to figure out where the instructions it need to call are and that change after each reboot so getting a persistent exploit is harder.
It's all defense in depth
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I made a zine, it's called Fractions Are Everything, it invites the reader into looking at fractions a little differently.
The typesetting is done entirely in #Uxn.
https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pocket_fractions
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8 pager, the cover is a AND gate with the primes 2 and 3, on one side, and 5 on the other.
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@neauoire mind if i print out a copy for my local zine library?
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@neauoire Vector text rendering fo uxn is so cool to see. You could animate your new logo for xxiivv with it.
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@andnull yes! I've been shy to openly say that it changes everything.. but it changes everything!
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@neauoire Oh, this opens the world in terms of text setting. I have been wanting to see a permacomputing adjacent project attempt to talk CTL* and how far you could push it on a system such as uxn.
*not everything tho, some stuff does just require a 5mb lookup table on the side such as word breaking iirc
Print them! Share them! Spread the love of commutative arithmetic.
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The main character in Only Yesterday who struggled with fractions.
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@neauoire im so happy on how it turned out, thank you so much <3
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@neauoire It looks amazing! That font is very beautiful. And doing this in Uxn is awesome. Move over, LaTeX :-D
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@wim_v12e This came together after having the issue where I'd make the zines in GIMP, and I had these large print resolution files that I can't version. This is entirely textual, and it allows me to make it all pixel-perfect :)
The zine rom is 3236 bytes!
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@neauoire amazing! is this the font format you posted about earlier?
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@wim_v12e it is! You can see the renderer here: https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/zine_fractions/tree/main/item/src/hershey.tal
docs: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/hershey
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@neauoire Thanks, I've bookmarked that. So with this we could have Japanese in Adelie?
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@wim_v12e yeah! I have some 200ish characters only tho, we'd have to fill in the blanks:
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/hershey/tree/main/item/etc/japanese.jhf
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@neauoire Ah, how come that is different from https://paulbourke.net/dataformats/hershey/japanese.gz ?
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@wim_v12e OH DANG, I took the wrong file, yes this is MUCH more complete.
Then yes, to answer your question, now you can write in japanese in uxn.
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@neauoire let the fun begin! though it will have to wait until I'm done with the boring work stuff
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@wim_v12e The file is truncated at 80 columns, which is a pain because it adds bytes in an otherwise clean stream of points, usually I clean those files by hand but this one is massive, you might have to make a program that reads each line, and if it's not a space-padded decimal number, erases the linebreak.
If you can't figure it out, lemme know and I'll make a little script in uxn to clean it up.
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This is delightful!
And I'm obsessed with that beautiful script font. The numbers render so beautifully
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I'm a competent English reader since childhood, but I have to confess that cursive just slightly breaks my brain. Can't really read it fluently without getting stuck every few seconds.
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@eladhen it's worth practicing, I hope the zine helps you practice not only fractions but also cursive!
@neauoire this is beautiful. Im embarrassed to say I am confused about what I'm supposed to do in the puzzle on the last page
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@robd multiply 1 by 3315(the result is 3315), check what prime factors are in that number, and fill in the little box under each prime in the row, then use 3315, multiply it by 2926, and fill in the primes found that number, and so on :)
For example, if the number is 15, fill in the squares under 3 and 5.
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@neauoire Should "denumerator" read "denominator"? (Not a native English speaker, so maybe I'm missing that both do in fact exist...)
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@apfel ah damn! you're right, I keep making that typo, an artifact from french. Thanks for the head's up.
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@neauoire I absolutely ❤️ this. Was working through the ideas (and end puzzle) on the couch and my wife asked what I was doing. I said "interacting with social media"
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@neauoire I love fractions. I really should try making some math zines too.
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@neauoire similarly to Alan Weinstein's symplectic creed, “Everything is a Lagrangian submanifold.” Reality is a bunch of fractions and Lagrangians 
BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
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@mntmn mal rein interessehalber - mit welchen Distributionen wurde das Gerät denn schon so getestet?
Ausgeliefert wurden die noch nicht, oder?
TFW you receive 14kWh of raw LFP battery cells 💙
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Four large cardboard boxes in the back of an SUV. They have large red "FRAGILE" stickers and "THIS SIDE UP" markings on them