Hi Pine64 friends,



I believe the Pinecil has dramatically changed the game in entry level soldering irons, even displacing soldering stations. With another accessory, it could do the same to desoldering tools.



I'd love to see a tip featuring a hollow nozzle, and a press-fit connection for a length of silicone tubing connected to a small (filter and) pump. The fast, precise heating and temperature control of the Pinecil would push this combo handily beat out the $300 price bracket of desoldering tools, like the Hakko FR-301, even without pump control in my hands.



Thanks for considering this!

I am wondering if I installed patched ffmpeg weather it would be possible to get firefox to use the patched version to do hardware video decoding? Also if anybody knows maybe an update to development on hw video decoding on ppp?

Hi there,
unfortunately I've filled the SPI with garbage while updating to new U-Boot.
U-Boot SPL 2024.04-rc2 (Feb 14 2024 - 00:00:00 +0000)
Trying to boot from SPI
Trying to boot from MMC1
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
spl: mmc init failed with error: -95
Trying to boot from SPI
Trying to boot from MMC2
Card did not respond to voltage select! : -110
spl: mmc init failed with error: -95
SPL: failed to boot from all boot devices
### ERROR ### Please RESET the board ###

Question: how to reset the bord and flash a correct version of U-Boot? Pressing the "Reset" button didn't help.

Thanks
Andreas

Is it proper to report AI posts as "spam content"?

If not, is there a better way to report them; or, should we not report them at all?

Is it notable to anyone else that since posting comments about updating Arch Linux yesterday my phone has been acting particularly differently?
I'm not sure the cause.  I'm suspicious about external tampering.  That would be a shame.  There's likely nothing to gain.  I'm a poor man with little joy in life.  It'd be in anyone's best interest to have a conversation with me rather than play tricks.  I have more to offer in words, I'm sure, than anything.

I finally got my old model Pinephone running.......   A+

My battery fix is this:

Anker Portable Charger Powerbank 20,000 mAh      $34.00 on Amazon

It has a four light indicator to show the battery charge  ( takes overnight to charge 100% )

Now - I'm running Arch Phosh

Runs all day all night no problems

I calculated it will last 2.6 days

Get a short six inch cord to connect the two together..... maybe a little double back tape

I just need a basic phone - dialing and texting

Both are working Very Reliably



The battery pack is the exact size as the phone -  twice the thickness

Fine job Arch

Hello,

I decided to replace Manjaro on my PBP and try out Void Linux. I never used it before, but would like to see how well it works with musl on the pinebook pro, since Manjaro felt a little heavy on it. I followed the instructions here, https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Pinebook_Pr..._Linux_ARM, with the following notes:

• I used a Manjaro live environment to do the configuration, and I booted the live environment from an SD card
  
• I first followed the Arch tutorial to flash Tow-Boot and create the partitions. I used ext4 for both the boot and root partitions.
  
• I then extracted the void rootfs into the root partition, then chrooted into it, and started following the void tutorial located here while avoiding any boot-loader related instructions. I updated xbps and installed base-system and also set the root password. I did not install grub because I figured Tow-Boot woudl be doing the booting
  
• I installed the pinebookpro-kernel package with xbps because I didn't want to build my own kernel.
  
• I installed the u-boot-menu
  
• Despite what the instructions said, I had to write my own extlinux.conf and I made sure to point to the right kernel file, and that fdt points to the right file
  

I wonder if I should update my Arch installation.  It's been running for a tear and I havn't updated anything.  I'm afraid to do so because I'm afraid something will break and the phone/cpu will become unusable.
I'm sure I'm in over my head with Arch Linux, but this is what I'm stuck with.

QuickJS is a small JavaScript Engine that supports POSIX Functions. Can we run QuickJS on Apache NuttX RTOS? And Blink the LED in 4 lines of JavaScript?

  const ULEDIOC_SETALL = 0x1d03;
  const fd = os.open("/dev/userleds", os.O_WRONLY);
  os.ioctl(fd, ULEDIOC_SETALL, 1);
  os.ioctl(fd, ULEDIOC_SETALL, 0);

In this article we…
(1) Run QuickJS on NuttX with Ox64 BL808 RISC-V SBC
(2) Blink the LED by adding the ioctl() function
(3) Reconfigure the NuttX App Stack (because it’s too tiny)
(4) Analyse the Memory Footprint of QuickJS (Code + Data + Heap Size)
(5) Test QuickJS in the Web Browser with NuttX Emulator (and a Simulated LED)

QuickJS is perfect for Iterative, Interactive Experiments on NuttX! Check out the article:
https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/quickjs.html

Lup


   

I have a good understanding of computer technology but in recent years find myself moving towards near complete digital detox, I think there is far too much waved connection.

I run a Mudita Pure e-ink dumb phone which works as a modem and a rooted & degoogled Onyx Boox Note Air 2 Plus for everything else, at least that is the idea. The privatized Boox tablet firmware (controversial because of GPL) has proved a nuisance and thus I find myself using the linux laptop I intend to sell. 

I like a rough, physical, healthy lifestyle, so to compliment it, I would like a rugged / metal Pinenote to work in tandem with a simple phone. Also, my opinion is that a colour e-ink display option would allow for a better multi-purpose device, I have had trouble reading backroad / topographic map-books in grayscale, and colour is helpful for the odd online purchase as well.

Simple e-ink devices seem to me a better path or at least compromise in the balance of things.

So, my take:

• Rugged & metal
  
• Optional colour display
  
• Not too big