is there any #mnt #mntreform #mntpocketreform users here ? I really want to buy a pocket but I've some doubts on the track ball...
Or I take the big one...
Or the 2...
I kinda want #framework too...
Halp...

If anyone has some retex on it :)

J'ai envie de me faire plaisir cette année (sauf si je suis gourmand et je recommencerais l'année prochaine)
Est-ce qu'il y a des utilisateurs de #mnt #mntreform #mntpocketreform sur fedi ? Je me tâte beaucoup beaucoup à prendre un pocket mais j'ai des doutes sur la boule...
Ou un plus gros...
Ou le 2...
Le #framework me tente aussi...
Aled...

Je regrette un peu de pas l'avoir testé plus que ça au CCC :(

@grimmware: Now that is a cool #MNTPocketReform based #Cyberdeck!

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to join Paul Cutler and Tod Kurt on their podcast, The Bootloader.

I’ve been an avid follower of The Bootloader since it began. In my opinion, it is a perfect 30 minute format: each participant gets to bring some “picks” to talk about (mostly in the tech / software / hardware / maker space), for no more than 5 minutes – so you get to hear about six things of interest, that you may not have come across before, and learn something cool about the thing and the host or guest. You either get a Paul/Tod double-header with three picks each, or they bring on a guest, and each person picks two things. I always discover something new through listening to this show! I was surprised and delighted that Paul and Tod asked me to join them for this episode – compared to them, I am a mere amateur when it comes to making cool electronics and such.

You can listen to the show via multiple channels – like our own Games at Work.biz podcast, there’s a YouTube version, but it is audio-only (nice work YouTube for forcing everyone into that weird system). The show notes are also extensive, as they more-or-less cover a linkified transcript of what we talked about.

The YouTube edition may be a bit strange for an audio show… but gives me an opportunity to embed it here, so if you feel like it, click away!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRGhonClp0

So, what did I pick?

Oh, you don’t want to watch listen? Well, that’s a bit sad. OK, here are my picks:

1. Glance
   I recently came across Glance, an easy-to-configure self-hosted dashboard that lets me arrange information, feeds and data into a useful start page for my life and interests. It is nice and straightforward, pretty easy to extend, and has a friendly community. Worth taking a look!
2. MNT Pocket Reform / MNT Research
   I’ve written a few times about my MNT Pocket Reform, and after a recent spell where I had to get something looked at under warranty and didn’t have it with me, it came back just before we recorded the podcast episode. Again, I really wanted to share something that has a fantastic community, and in this case also a company (and people) with great principles behind it. So, I took the opportunity to give them a shout-out!

I hope you take a listen to The Bootloader, and maybe even get interested enough to check out their back catalogue of episodes and add it to your podcast app for new ones!

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/24/the-bootloader/

#100DaysToOffload #bootloader #dashboard #mnt #mntPocketReform #podcast #selfHosting #Technology

I wrote about daily driving my #mntpocketreform for a month - it's probably the most DIY-ethics/anti-corporate computer one can get and great fun to use

https://me.literatelisp.eu/daily-driving-my-mnt-pocket-reform-impressions-after-a-month.html

I somehow can’t wrap my head around building a u-boot package for my #mntpocketreform #guix system image… was able to build the rest, e.g. slimmed-down kernel for the imx8mp and a basic system image… my idea to just throw copy-build-system against the u-boot image that falls out of the mnt CI for building u-boot & build a package to be consumed by bootloader in a systems declaration didn’t work out too great; I’ll call it a day for today I think

I think I would want to put effort into coming up with a (non-, as it requires non free firmware) #guix system image for the MX8MP #mntpocketreform. Would anyone else be interested in this and would want to join my efforts? I would love to come up with something generic to make it easier supporting other SoCs.

There's already a repo of someone working on adding MX8MQ(!), A311D and LS1028A support (https://codeberg.org/lykso/mnt-reform-nonguix/src/branch/main) which I'm looking at right now to have a starting point.

upgraded the top plate of my #mntpocketreform to match the rest of the casing (and for better thermals & wifi reception) and put a lovely #guix sticker on it

Khaaan replaced their Pocket Reform enclosure with newly finished silver one, it looks really nice!
https://community.mnt.re/t/device-progress-and-a-warning-about-removing-the-screen/3122 #MNT #mntpocketreform

I tried #labwc as a compositor on my #mntpocketreform with a config that:

- disables window decoration
- forces applications to be maximized at all times
- autostarts emacs

and so far I'm happy with it. I can alt-tab through all open applications, use the emacs modeline as a bar replacement (for time, battery status even though the logic's in emacs is broken for the pocket reform somehow?) and launch new applications with fuzzel. It's minimal and quite beautiful.

this is by far the coolest computer i’ve ever owned, lets figure out how to put #guix system on it

#mntpocketreform

Okay, a few false starts (some user error), but my MNT Pocket Reform is now up and working.

First test. It does indeed run Zork.

The keyboard is excellent, and loud.

#mntpocketreform #zork

The best part about a new computer is assembling it, right? 😁 #mntpocketreform

Finally getting around to setting up my little #mntpocketreform now that the post-holidays have settled down.

Ich bin verliebt! https://youtu.be/u_BAIViQtio?feature=shared #mntpocketreform #mnt

Schon jemand probiert, ein 5 GbE-NVMe B+M Modul für Ethernet (RTL8126) in ein MNT Reform oder Pocket Reform zu bekommen?

Hätte gerne mehr als 1999-Gigabit, wo SSDs Kreise drum laufen.

#mntreform #mntpocketreform

👀 @mntmn

Part of me really wants to get the #MntPocketReform but it seems impractical if I ever needed to use it for work purposes. I just love the form factor, the open philosophy, etc. Any pocket reform owners on here with pros & cons? Worth getting as a companion device to my main desktop?

There’s some very cheep old MacBook Airs around now. A good portable Linux solution or save up for a MNT Pocket Reform which looks so cool. #linux #MacBookAir #mntpocketreform

Shoutout to the more obscure Linux video player Clapper for doing the legwork of packaging their ARM64 Flatpak with all the obscure weird vendor forks of FFMPEG (the video decoding library used by VLC, MPV, etc) and such for hardware acceleration of video decoding on different SoCs.

Seriously, some ARM SoCs have just... forked FFMPEG and not merged upstream and use their own special sauce video decoding APIs. Or V4L2, the webcam API for some reason. None of these are ever going to be compiled into your distro's version of FFMPEG because wow, and Clapper bothered to.

As such, on my MNT Pocket Reform with an RCORE RK3588 CPU, playing back 1080p H.264 video at 24 fps goes from using 8.2% of CPU in MPV to 3.8% with Clapper. Which isn't the most significant on this system, but should help with battery drain and is even more important for lower-end SoCs than the fairly powerful RK3588.

#linux #mnt #mntpocketreform

As I didn't find any information on this: Is the #mntpocketreform with #rk3588 powerful enough to actively participate in a video call using #bigbluebutton and #jitsi, preferably using a #bluetooth headset while the system might be connected to the network via #wifi (on some #mobilelinux phones I get stuttering sound when using Bluetooth and WiFi at the same time ...)