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Terminal and ssh will suffice in many cases. People a lot of time used only terminal and live.
This looks like a pretty cool device! However, I was immediately curious about how the "dual battery" feature works. The IP5306 power-management IC seems to be designed only for a single battery, and as far as I can tell from the schematic[1], the two battery connectors are just directly connected to each other in parallel (across VBAT and GND). This seems really sketchy. If you plug in two batteries that are not at…
Oh great! Another awesome looking cyberdeck that I want to own and will find absolutely no practical use for. I've added myself to the waitlist already.
Yes, I'm dreaming too.
Such computers are cool, but fat and inconvenient. I don't understand why decent companies like ibm, samsung or others won't make a Linux handheld seriously. With a good processor that will be power efficient and run for a long time on a single charge. Terminal and ssh will suffice in many cases. People a lot of time used only terminal and live.
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They make USB KVM devices. Run an application on your computer to send input / receive output. Then you can use whatever laptop you want. That said, I've only used them on Windows, so drivers might be an issue.
Would that work with a BIOS? Boot loader?
Very similar to the Beepberry. Exciting to see someone else building into that form factor. Also love to fun to see the Nokia BL-5C battery (originally introduced in the Nokia 3650 in 2003) still alive and kicking 20years later. https://blog.beeper.com/2023/05/16/beeper-x-sqmfi-beepberry/
That appears to have been renamed to the Beepy, and the product page now has the repurposed Blackberry keyboard blurred out. Did whoever owns the corpse of Blackberry go after them for trademark infringement? https://beepy.sqfmi.com/
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And if you screw up which battery is which? "Do things exactly right, quickly, or the device bursts into flames*" is not acceptable electronics design, even for something you intend to use yourself. * do you really want to trust a generic battery's built-in protection IC?
Maybe I’m being too generous but I feel like 99.9% of the people using something like this would do it properly
This looks like a pretty cool device! However, I was immediately curious about how the "dual battery" feature works. The IP5306 power-management IC seems to be designed only for a single battery, and as far as I can tell from the schematic[1], the two battery connectors are just directly connected to each other in parallel (across VBAT and GND). This seems really sketchy. If you plug in two batteries that are not at…
What about having 2 diodes and problem solved
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And if you screw up which battery is which? "Do things exactly right, quickly, or the device bursts into flames*" is not acceptable electronics design, even for something you intend to use yourself. * do you really want to trust a generic battery's built-in protection IC?
Maybe I’m being too generous but I feel like 99.9% of the people using something like this would do it properly
This looks like a pretty cool device! However, I was immediately curious about how the "dual battery" feature works. The IP5306 power-management IC seems to be designed only for a single battery, and as far as I can tell from the schematic[1], the two battery connectors are just directly connected to each other in parallel (across VBAT and GND). This seems really sketchy. If you plug in two batteries that are not at…
It looks like two BL-5Cs, which normally come with their own overcurrent protection (AFAIK even the no-name generic clone cells do), so what's more likely to happen is you trip the protection on one of the cells being swapped. Fortunately these are not very high capacity nor current cells, being ~1000mAh at most. They seem to be pretty robust in general, as a series of hugely popular MP3/MP4 players that used them ha…