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OLIMEX / DIY-LAPTOP

Do It Yourself Open Source Hardware and Software Modular Hacker's Friendly Laptop
Apache License 2.0
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README: Add link on OFTC #teres #72

Closed Kreyren closed 5 months ago

Kreyren commented 5 months ago

Add an IRC room used by teres users to talk and work on the device

xloem commented 2 months ago

@Kreyren I'm noting you added a community links section immediately below the existing community links resource which remains unupdated. Looks like a mistake, maybe made by use of an AI tool or quick editing?

I actually have dissociative blindness from trauma where I can make mistakes like this.

It would be great to know how this mistake happened to know what kinds of things to plan around engaging this repository in the future.

Kreyren commented 2 months ago

@Kreyren I'm noting you added a community links section immediately below the existing community links resource which remains unupdated. Looks like a mistake, maybe made by use of an AI tool or quick editing?

I actually have dissociative blindness from trauma where I can make mistakes like this.

It would be great to know how this mistake happened to know what kinds of things to plan around engaging this repository in the future. -- @xloem (https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/pull/72#issuecomment-2154545731)

The IRC provided is made by the community which is not directly affiliated with OLIMEX (bcs tsvetan wasn't very active in #olimex and lot of teres users had issues getting answers to their issues so it was provided as best effort to help in addition to the changes in the sunxi wiki) so i wanted to make a clear distinction between official and community without disruption the original text/increasing the review requirements as getting things merged is kinda pain sometimes, the mentioned community links should probably be called social media.

Kreyren commented 2 months ago

Speaking of getting things merged i am really annoyed that there isn't any management for using newer kicad or instructions for how to contribute to the hardware designs (there are missing 3D designs which are very long hanging fruit that lot of people wanted to work on for example) + how to fabricate it with more engagement with the community and open-mindedness on good ideas e.g.

https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/issues/61 user on the forum clearly had a major problem with frying the board and this is very inexpensive solution that could have prevented the issue to begin with for them and for people like me fixing my teres after frying the board way too many times while single-handedly keeping the mainline functional be it through asahi linux devs breaking OpenGL rendering, constant issues with display initialization which happen nearly every major release and are always of different cause.. because of course they are.. and ongoing problems with power management, hardware-bugs like FEL not working in https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/issues/73 which is likely due to too high impedance on the USB OTG pin (appears to be around 40% more than tolerated by the chip) etc.. etc..

as there seem to be a lot of people who want to contribute, but the unofficial requirement to fabricate and test each changes could get in 500 EUR per commit

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which i very unsustainable for a lot of people which i would like to address through the SOM route which would get that in ~5 EUR range and in a way that can be fabricated at home using ~40 EUR worth of equipment depending on implementation https://github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/issues/55#issuecomment-2159652600, though i recognize that getting SOM in a manageable way is difficult (https://git.dotya.ml/kreyren/OSHW-System-On-Module).

If you can get some of these things to @TsvetanUsunov it might help a lot to make the laptop more functional.