@lupyuen I think i might need to buy one or two of these to play with!
"Can I still repair, modify, or otherwise hack the sealed #PineTime ?"
strace is our Best Friend for Reverse Engineering the flashing of #BL706
https://github.com/lupyuen/lupyuen.github.io/releases/tag/v1.0.3
Valve's Steam Deck: 7-inch Gaming Handheld with Arch #Linux + KDE Plasma
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/07/steam-deck-handheld-linux-pc
@lupyuen Looking forward to seeing where this tech goes. Very nice first production version given the price!
$27 #PineTime smartwatch runs #OpenSource software and now it's ready for non-developers
Capturing the secret #OpenOCD Commands for flashing #BL706
https://github.com/lupyuen/lupyuen.github.io/releases/tag/v1.0.3
"#PinePhone App Development - Rust + GTK"
Can we flash #BL706 with OpenOCD ... Without BLDevCube? Here are our findings
https://github.com/lupyuen/lupyuen.github.io/releases/tag/v1.0.3
"Does ARM indemnify licensees against patent suits?"
https://blog.adafruit.com/2021/07/13/we-asked-does-arm-indemnify-licensees-against-patent-suits/
Weekly #Linux Phone news / media roundup
https://linmob.net/linbits-53-weekly-linux-phone-news-week27-28/
"Muse Group Continues Tone Deaf Handling Of Audacity"
https://hackaday.com/2021/07/13/muse-group-continues-tone-deaf-handling-of-audacity/
Stay safe ... No Karaoke please 🙏
Attached a picture of the QOTO swarm's resources for those who are curious.
Some interesting facts about the #QOTO cluster for those who are curious:
* Runs as a docker swarm, so easily scales as needed and services can move between computers in the cluster.
* Runs on a 7 computer cluster.
* Utilizes only about 5% at most of its CPU potential
* CPU has burst capability, so can go well beyond 100% for momentary high loads.
*Utilizes 33% of the memory (this includes caching). Almost all of the memory is from Gitlab.
* Requires half a terrabyte of on-disk size, with an additional 2 TB for used currently as shared disks.
* Supports 12 different services right now: fediverse-bots, discourse, wikijs, funkwhale, gitlab, 5-node load balancer, nextcloud, peertube, piwig, qoto-mastodon groups server, and two different monitoring tools.
* These 12 services run as 60 different interconnected docker containers spread across the cluster.
As for costs... the last year the total cost to run QOTO was **11,384.43$**. However I recently paid to reserve the instances instead of spot instances. So I expect the next year to be about 25% cheaper.
IoT Techie and Educator / Apache NuttX PMC