AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

I'm planning on getting back to the BL602 and making my own programs. I will also likely be double checking my code on github to make sure that it compiles correctly.

@lupyuen I suspect one of those problems is with something that takes people's minds off of the bad circumstances. I'm sorry to hear that. It's not an encouraging thing to see.

@itnewsbot They should have done it much sooner. In the short period of time it caused gasoline prices to go up by 50% for a separate state with other sources of petroleum products.

@lupyuen I only miss the nightlife, gym and "jobs". I moved 9 hours away for work and I was making nearly nothing working on heavy equipment. I moved back after 7 months and it's not much better at all.

The situation in your country will improve along with the economy and job market.

@lupyuen I have recovered and the only lasting symptom is GI issues which persisted for about a month last time. I don't want to catch it a third time but I should have a natural immunity for up to 3-6 months now. I don't know if the vaccine is still available for me at this point. I was eligible for vaccination after I was already symptomatic during finals week(s). I assume that I will get no valid excuse as I didn't email them until I was able to string together an intelligible sentence. I really despise University and how broken it is. I don't know if I will graduate. I'm quite upset about the way they have treated me in the past and I don't know if I can continue.

Perhaps I sent a link to my github and your reference to it as a way of saying, "I did this without a degree in CS, on my own time, on my own hardware and no one in the faculty taught me any of this."

@lupyuen I'm considering making my own image to flash to the BL602. I have waited so long for real embedded programming in C and it's RISC-V. I want to do many things with this MCU but I will have to limit myself to a single image that does a few things. Hopefully I can get it operational without too much trouble.

@lupyuen The second time I contacted Covid-19, 14 months after the first time, it seemed to hit me faster and had the same effect. My duration of illness was a little shorter than before and so was the incubation period. The symptoms were a little different but mostly the same. It's not pleasant and I've now contacted Covid-19 almost as many times as I have contacted the flu in my life.

Covid-19 is absolutely fascinating and I think it's going to change how we deal with infectious diseases going forward. I say this but HIV is still spreading.

@lupyuen That's okay. I expect that it will be worse than the BL602. It is Allwinner so there will need to be Reverse Engineers.

@lupyuen I think I will want to get more involved in projects and show my abilities so they will see what I can do. The Cube blobs are in my repo under verbose-chainsaw as C code.

Do you know how I could get my hands on the Allwinner D1 and resources before it's released officially by Pine? I don't want another BL602 type release. I will work on open source implementation of firmware and do whatever I need to for it to be truly open.

@lupyuen I don't know why I said Shenzhen. California would definitely be possible for me. If nothing else, I could collaborate remotely. I'm going to build a virtualization server for my own computational use and image compilation.

@PawelK @lupyuen Pinephone Braveheart v1.1 it barely escaped the Covid lockdown even though I placed an order immediately after it became available.

@snow @cassidyclown @colonelj @Philoxenus I'd be more concerned about heavy metals in cosmetics than a bottle of Gaytooaid turning me into a homosexual in the locker room.

@PawelK @lupyuen The Braveheart was unofficially demoted to Alpha.

@lupyuen There are plenty more of these jokes I would like to make but I don't want to go through the catalogue of devices. Or Samsung engineers who made sure that devices could charge safely and properly manage Lithium batteries. That's a good one because it includes laptops, cellphones and tablets from different generations.

@lupyuen If that includes Shenzhen, I would be interested. It would be nice to start over.

@dhfir @georgia They are Russian now. Crimea was always Russian. How does Latvia exist and belong to NATO?

@snow @cassidyclown @Philoxenus I understand the problem with female like hormones in plastics but it is limited to certain plastics. Soy decreases the amount of testosterone too. Plastic has become such a problem that it is difficult to see that it can easily be recycled and repurposed.

@dhfir @georgia I thought that was part of Russia.

@snow @cassidyclown @Philoxenus Perhaps he fell in love with being gay and wanted more lovers.

@PawelK @lupyuen Someone built a working Linux cellphone with a BeagleBone Black before Purism made its device. The Pinephone is not the first Linux Smartphone, that would be the Openmoko. The Pinebook wasn't the first arm powered Linux laptop, the Chromebook was. Pine needs to have a leadership change. I don't see a real future for the company as they were not much better than Orange Pi. The best company was NTC. They broke barriers and should still be referenced to this day.