So while we are waiting... I'd love to chat about what all of us planning on doing with our Pinebook Pros. If you are replacing something else with it, what are you replacing?
Personally I've been trying to transition all of my hardware to low powered ARM devices in an effort to both reduce my environmental impact and to try and do more with less. As a professional software developer, I have recently realized how wasteful we tend to be. Prior to this I decommissioned my Intel based desktop "server" with Ubuntu in favor of four ODroid XU4Qs running Armbian. Expanding this project to encompass my personal laptop is the primary reason that I'm interested in the PBP. I plan on attempting to replace my Purism Librem 15 running Arch with the PBP. The PBP is by far the most promising Linux compatible ARM laptop to come along yet and I figure with enough time and effort I can make it work.
Do we know approximately when the 90 cutoff was reached? I doubt I made it as I was affected by the login errors. I only got the email at 12:49 UTC. Here’s to hoping, though.
(07-25-2019, 05:03 PM)kunger Wrote: (07-25-2019, 04:53 PM)joe0400 Wrote: (07-25-2019, 04:40 PM)doc1623 Wrote: (07-25-2019, 04:30 PM)joe0400 Wrote: (07-25-2019, 04:23 PM)doc1623 Wrote: Seconded  
Well I know there's going to be many like me. Hoping they were in the first 90! 
Good Luck All (but not better than mine please  )
I am 90% sure I am probably within the first 90.
Why? because I beat the crash, and spammed the refresh button 1 minute before.
If I am, I can't wait for the Pinebook to come in, before school. Want to take it to school for ARM shenanigans.
I didn't even know there was a crash  I got my confirmation email 2 minutes after the timer went off/out! So I'm very hopeful.
My email came in at 12 UTC exactly, again so I think I am one of the first.
Same here. I'm confused about who is eligible for 128GB versions, is that all of us?
First 1100 orders are eligible for the 128GB eMMC version.
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(07-25-2019, 05:13 PM)jaylittle Wrote: So while we are waiting... I'd love to chat about what all of us planning on doing with our Pinebook Pros. If you are replacing something else with it, what are you replacing?
Personally I've been trying to transition all of my hardware to low powered ARM devices in an effort to both reduce my environmental impact and to try and do more with less. As a professional software developer, I have recently realized how wasteful we tend to be. Prior to this I decommissioned my Intel based desktop "server" with Ubuntu in favor of four ODroid XU4Qs running Armbian. Expanding this project to encompass my personal laptop is the primary reason that I'm interested in the PBP. I plan on attempting to replace my Purism Librem 15 running Arch with the PBP. The PBP is by far the most promising Linux compatible ARM laptop to come along yet and I figure with enough time and effort I can make it work.
Im replacing my previous pinebook, as the screen broke, and when I went to replace the screen, the connector ripped off the board, so I said ill wait for the Pro.
What am I going to use it for, fun toying around with ARM development. Its fun to do that stuff, also testing pygame on ARM, within my video center app.
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Now that I think about it, i may use the motherboard from the old pinebook 14" for a 3D printer repetier server endpoint. I Think it would work well. Its small on top of that.
(07-25-2019, 04:06 PM)fire219 Wrote: Alright, for everyone getting worried because you don't have a coupon yet:
It's not because we don't like you or that you were too late -- No one has gotten one yet! However, as of right now, everyone who has registered into the system will get one!
The sales team is in UTC+8 -- When preorders opened, it was 8pm their time, and now it is 5am! When they get back to work, that is when you might be able to start expecting coupons.
As for the distribution of coupons, I'll lay it out for you:
First early batch is 100 units. About 10 of those are going to developers. That means about 90 will be available for pre-orders. Coupons will be sent to the first 90 users to registered into the system, starting tonight (in Europe and US time zones) and over the next 72 hours or so. Those units will ship in about 4 weeks from now.
The second batch is much larger -- 1000 units, all dedicated to preorders. These coupons will start being sent out in a couple weeks and stretch out to about 6-7 weeks from now. Units ship about 8-10 weeks from now.
I hope this clears things up. I'll likely pin an adapted version of this post as a new thread, so it's easier to see.
Thank you for the information!!! Do you know of the initial 100 and the subsequent 1000 units will be identical, or could there be revisions made between the two?
Thanks again for all you guys are doing! I'm sure it's exciting and stressful from your position!
(07-25-2019, 05:20 PM)kunger Wrote: (07-25-2019, 04:06 PM)fire219 Wrote: Alright, for everyone getting worried because you don't have a coupon yet:
It's not because we don't like you or that you were too late -- No one has gotten one yet! However, as of right now, everyone who has registered into the system will get one!
The sales team is in UTC+8 -- When preorders opened, it was 8pm their time, and now it is 5am! When they get back to work, that is when you might be able to start expecting coupons.
As for the distribution of coupons, I'll lay it out for you:
First early batch is 100 units. About 10 of those are going to developers. That means about 90 will be available for pre-orders. Coupons will be sent to the first 90 users to registered into the system, starting tonight (in Europe and US time zones) and over the next 72 hours or so. Those units will ship in about 4 weeks from now.
The second batch is much larger -- 1000 units, all dedicated to preorders. These coupons will start being sent out in a couple weeks and stretch out to about 6-7 weeks from now. Units ship about 8-10 weeks from now.
I hope this clears things up. I'll likely pin an adapted version of this post as a new thread, so it's easier to see.
Thank you for the information!!! Do you know of the initial 100 and the subsequent 1000 units will be identical, or could there be revisions made between the two?
Thanks again for all you guys are doing! I'm sure it's exciting and stressful from your position!
These first two batches should be identical units. It's possible that changes may be made before the third batch (first public one) if needed.
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(07-25-2019, 05:13 PM)jaylittle Wrote: So while we are waiting... I'd love to chat about what all of us planning on doing with our Pinebook Pros. If you are replacing something else with it, what are you replacing?
Personally I've been trying to transition all of my hardware to low powered ARM devices in an effort to both reduce my environmental impact and to try and do more with less. As a professional software developer, I have recently realized how wasteful we tend to be. Prior to this I decommissioned my Intel based desktop "server" with Ubuntu in favor of four ODroid XU4Qs running Armbian. Expanding this project to encompass my personal laptop is the primary reason that I'm interested in the PBP. I plan on attempting to replace my Purism Librem 15 running Arch with the PBP. The PBP is by far the most promising Linux compatible ARM laptop to come along yet and I figure with enough time and effort I can make it work.
Are your ODROIDs connected in any way or are they discrete machines? I have a homecloud which is awesome. I thought about getting a few more and stacking them into a ceph cluster to replace my x86 server. To do that, I'll have to figure out an ARM based ATSC tuner setup.
(07-25-2019, 05:26 PM)kunger Wrote: Are your ODROIDs connected in any way or are they discrete machines? I have a homecloud which is awesome. I thought about getting a few more and stacking them into a ceph cluster to replace my x86 server. To do that, I'll have to figure out an ARM based ATSC tuner setup.
They are discrete. One is a media box that runs Ampache, Plex (all my clients support Direct Play, so no transcoding) and my Channels DVR server. One is a communication box that runs Dovecot, Postfix, Webmail, Squid and Prosody and non-exit relay Tor node. Another is my file sharing box which provides sftp and rsync related services. The last one is my dedicated VPN tunnel gateway which is basically an alternative gateway on my network that I can point any other box to if I want it to access the internet via a VPN service rather than my normal internet connection. It also has Squid so that non-VPN machines can use a VPN connection in the web browser when it suits them without requiring a network reconfiguration.
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(07-25-2019, 05:31 PM)jaylittle Wrote: (07-25-2019, 05:26 PM)kunger Wrote: Are your ODROIDs connected in any way or are they discrete machines? I have a homecloud which is awesome. I thought about getting a few more and stacking them into a ceph cluster to replace my x86 server. To do that, I'll have to figure out an ARM based ATSC tuner setup.
They are discrete. One is a media box that runs Ampache, Plex (all my clients support Direct Play, so no transcoding) and my Channels DVR server. One is a communication box that runs Dovecot, Postfix, Webmail, Squid and Prosody and non-exit relay Tor node. Another is my file sharing box which provides sftp and rsync related services. The last one is my dedicated VPN tunnel gateway which is basically an alternative gateway on my network that I can point any other box to if I want it to access the internet via a VPN service rather than my normal internet connection. It also has Squid so that non-VPN machines can use a VPN connection in the web browser when it suits them without requiring a network reconfiguration.
Nice. My HC2 is acting as one of two Pi-Hole DHCP/DNS servers. The other is a TPi3b. Both Thealso facilitate my DNS update scripts for registration. HC2 also serves as a backup server for the x86 server and the RPi.
The x86 hosts a dedicated VPN client container, torrent server, Plex, Sonarr, TVHeadend, File shares, Private web server, Nextcloud, and Jackett.
Consumers for the Plex/TVHeadend services are two Nvidia shield TVs and a RPi4 running emulation station.
I'd switch to all arm if I could I think. It might take some investment in hardware to facilitate redundancy and space requirements.
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but as long as I made it under 90 
but who knows. I can only hope
