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I can recommend his youtube video about it. It’s quite a nice build.
Is there a modem included for LTE?
There is no such LTE modem mentioned in the article, neither in images, so I think there is none. Yet, one image says WiFi…
There is something about the simplicity of this kind of thing that makes it so attractive. There’s no bloat, just a device for a maker individual to play around with.
But it makes me wonder if there’s something similar to this but more “ready” for people to buy and play around building software. I’ve thought about learning more low level stuff with emulators, not a real device. A real device like this with a minimal Unix-like OS and some development kit to play around would be interesting.
If it runs modern Linux, there’s enough bloat even compared to Windows 2000.
COMMENT: further I’ve completely forgot what you were saying, so wrote a very loosely connected text.
I agree in dreams, but in truth no piece of tech will change life. Life changes tech. Today’s tech environment wouldn’t happen were social environment different.
If we want to make computing better, we need to be able to live without computing.
To make downtime acceptable. Same as with repairing floors in a hoarder’s apartment, you need to remove all the furniture and junk first. So you (being the hoarder) need to be able to live just fine without what’s in that room for a few weeks (I know ideally the process takes much less time).
The reason Facebook and others are so powerful and competition doesn’t work is because many people can’t live without what they rely upon as utilities.
And the “users mustn’t think, users mustn’t overcome themselves” mantra is commercial bullshit. Users are humans and are responsible for themselves. We can help them become more responsible. We can’t pretend humans are not responsible.
Because ultimately only humans exist and tools are tools.
It’s a Pi Pico. Linux can technically work there, but it’s more of a “I ported Doom to a Casio calculator watch” project than anything practical.
You all downvote but that OS runs on a microcontroller. No need for a microcode/management engine running a UEFI runnng a bootstrap running a OS that initializes locales for a console that runs a display server that initializes locale settings to run a webbrowser with his own locale settings for simulating desktop apps.
Btw, why don’t we just start standardizing CPU interfaces and cut down all the compatibility layers?
Does it run Doom?
The Pi Pico is capable of running Doom and it actually runs quite well when overclocked. It would probably take a bit of work to get it running on this computer since it uses a second RP2040 as a graphics processor.
Be the change you want to see in the world
What would you use it for?
Playing cataclysm DDA in a zombie apocalypse.
Private messenger using something like Briar in a protest environment?
RP2040 Pico for CPU and PicoVision from Pimoroni as GPU. His own micro-OS doesn’t run Android apps.
