07-25-2019, 05:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-25-2019, 05:25 PM by joe0400.
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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.