How can you call pinebook pro "open" when it requires a closed source WiFi firmware? (and closed source keyboard / touch pad firmware)
"ath9k" or "carl9170" would be a good solution because they are open and work on 5GHz.
The TERES by Olimex suffers from this problem too but I was easily able to remove the wifi module on the motherboard with a heat gun and some rosin.
The pinebook pro looks incredibly difficult to remove the wifi chip from the motherboard.
The next generation of pinebook pro should include an open source wifi option or an easy way to remove anything that is not open source.
(No I do not work for Olimex. I just want a better pinebook.)
If someone can get physical access to your pinebook (and reverse engineer the firmware or buy it from the manufacturer), they could upload a modified keyboard firmware that includes a key logger.
I use tamper evident stickers over some of the screw holes and over the SD card slot to prevent this.
Please complete the poll to show support for an easily removable wifi module.
Open source freedom fighting is hard to do without any help.
I put my ROCK64 on the desktop for a period of time, but it didn't work properly today.I try to reflash the SD card,and it still didn't work,and shows ''Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc0ffa3fe30''.Here is my boot log
Long story short: Need to do a reflowing of my PS3, don't have the money to pay someone to do a reballing and dont have the tools for it, checking a guide to do reflowing on a normal oven made me want to attempt this, rn all I need is a somewhat accurate oven thermometer but all the ones i checked that are under 20€ are useless for what i can see on the reviews.
The pinecil can read over 400ºC no problem, i wouldnt need more range than 100 to 300ºC, so, anyway i could hook up a thermocouple or something to the pinecil and check the temp in real time? As long as it's kind of accurate (+/-10ºC) it's all i need.
I know it uses a handle sensor and a tip sensor to calculate temp but if i can have the ambient temp kinda controlled for a short amount of time could it read accurately? if so what i'd need to do in order to achieve this? Any help is welcome!
Hi, was looking at Pinephone Pro vs. Librem 5. Seems PPP has better GPU. However Librem 5 has removable WWAN (mobile broadband) card via an m.2 slot? I don't need WWAN. I plan to establish connectivity only via USB.
I looked up these EC25 card awhile ago on alibaba. They seem to go $100 a piece. If the WWAN is soldiered on the PinePhone Pro board, is there any way I can get 5 to 10 of PPP void of the WWAN card, and at reduced cost?
As well if price is correct I'd gladly order 20 to 40 pieces without built in mic, camera too as well. What are my options?
My Quartz64 just arrived. Looks fine, I am currently waiting for some storage to boot it from as well as a SATA card for NAS.
In the mean time I wanted to fabricate (probably 3D Print) a case - but there is no open source case available and I could not find a 3D model (or technical drawings besides the connector layout) for the Quartz64 so I could design my own.
Does anyone have technical drawings or the 3D model of the board? Or is it maybe of the same dimensions as the RockPro?
