Thank you. Very informative.
3arn0wl
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Thanks for this : you have a piece of significant tech history, I think. I'm really quite envious!
But I was asking about the new board... Fossicking around on the net a bit, I gather there's Ubuntu and Yocto available for it. Do you think the Debian image for the Lichee Pi would boot on it too?
Perversely; I'm always less inclined to buy a product that I've seen advertised... "Why do they need to advertise it? It can't be up to much." And "Part of the ticket price has gone into advertising, so it's not so valuable a thing.", usually being my first thoughts.
I guess this is a fair indication then of how much Meta receives per person from advertisers...
:) Yes, calibre is great.
There's a community effort, porting KDE: https://liliputing.com/pinetab-v-tablet-with-a-risc-v-chip-gets-community-supported-software-builds-including-kde-plasma-desktop/
What are your predictions on consumer hardware for the next decade in relation to RISC-V?
I had 2023 marked as the Year of the RISC-V SBC. But I think it's more than that : with the Lichee Pi coming with Debian pre-installed, and looking stable, RISC-V is on the verge of consumer-grade hardware. There are other devices from Sipeed, Pine64 and others too, of course, including laptops and tablets.
I think the real watershed will come in 2025/26 though. It's widely predicted that more powerful RISC-V processors will be ready by then.
We know that some Chinese tech organisations are working tirelessly on RISC-V, and I think we can expect to see them really pushing the technology. But Qualcomm, Broadcom, NXP etc. are going for it too. Qualcomm (feat. Nuvia) have real design prowess, and also have every reason to go RISC-V.
I really like the Lichee Pi 4A, and I hope to get one when I next need to buy a computer. My computing needs are relatively light, and I think the Lichee Pi would be perfectly sufficient.
I check the Alpine repository from time to time - https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages - just to see what apps are available for RISC-V : and actually, it's impressive to see the amount of work that has gone into rebasing apps. Godot doesn't appear to be there for RISC-V though, sorry.
So my advice would be to realise what apps you really need, and check if they're available yet. And if they aren't it's always worth contacting the app maintainer.
This is deeply troubling in what is supposed to be a free society.
Education is a fundamental... But it has never been, and never will be, a one-size-fits-all thing, and trying to impose an Authoritarian View and suppressing other ideas, is just wrong, and bad.
Perhaps I should request a disclosure of what they have on me : I have been critical of nonsensical testing in the past (though I think that some sort of baseline assessment is needed, and has always been done in some form).
I'm enjoying the Lemmy experience, and offer thanks for the work done.
The only thing I would note, is that contributors often post the same thing in different communities. I was wondering if it might be better to have the facility to choose more than one community when we post, and then the information just appears once in the "All" roll.
They're scared of losing what they perceive as their technical supremecy : RISC-V is proving itself to be a capable construct.
The interesting thing will be to see what big US business's reaction will be : Google and Qualcomm have got some clout...