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minutejosch: yeah it has no compression built in02:40
minutejosch: perhaps ffmpeg with -vcodec copy ?02:42
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joschminute: i can view the webcam image just fine in guvcview, for example. But as soon as I try to capture the stream with ffmpeg (even with -vcodec copy) ffmpeg stalls at capturing a single frame one. I can capture with guvcview but the resulting video will be full of strange artifacts of a type i haven't seen before.06:47
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minutejosch: ahh your question is how to record video, not necessarily raw11:00
joschyes. I have recorded raw (not really raw but mjpeg) video in the past to reduce the cpu load11:47
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alcedoHello, everyone! I have been following MNT's projects for quite some time now, and, I must say, I am impressed and intrigued by what's been done and what's planned for the future.12:09
alcedoI have, also, been looking into getting one of the devices, but I am a bit confused by the compatibility table.12:11
alcedoIt says that LS1028A is 'TBD' for the Reform Next. Does that mean that official (and SW) support is being debated, or something else?12:13
alcedoThe board itself should fit. It's the same connector, no?12:14
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joschalcedo: yes, the connector should physically fit but afaik nobody tried whether the rest of the board also physically fits and nobody wrote a dtb for it. What makes you interested in the LS1028A? For the same money you get far better performance with other boards.13:34
tisiphoneJust got my new reform, is it normal for the oled screen to be flickering and not booting up?  I'd done a keyboard firmware reset as the keyboard wasn't showing its leds and now OLED screen is just showing the logo and flickering.14:13
tisiphoneTo be clear when it arrived it was working, this is just a new thing today.14:14
alcedojosch: Well, it would be the lack of blobs.14:20
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alcedoExcept for the eDP one. On the same topic, if I were to strip it out, I would need to connect the internal display over the PCI. How does one achieve that?14:22
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tisiphoneGot it back up again, but keeping notes incase the odd behaviour recurs14:46
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joschalcedo: you would need a pci-e graphics card. I am not aware of one that would fit the Reform laptop case15:06
joschalcedo: maybe you are interested in the MNT Station?15:06
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Zabamost modern hardware relies on proprietary firmware even if it isn’t loaded from userspace by the OS, so just avoiding visible blobs can be quite illusory (and even counterproductive because these are at least easy to update)15:21
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alcedojosch: I would need a whole new eGPU? I believe I am not understanding something right, here. I thought the GPU itself was free and that only the logic for driving the eDP connection was closed-source.15:22
alcedoZaba: I am painfully aware of that, but I know that, if it can't be updated and directly interfaced by outside software, it is *basically* part of the hardware (I think that the FSF also considers it such) and not such a big issue.15:25
Zabathat’s not really true though15:26
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ZabaI think the fsf position is based on a very 80s idea of how hardware works 15:27
alcedoI realize that, but I am at least trying to clean out the sensitive parts of the computer of something that can't be verified, only trusted implicitly.15:28
alcedoZaba: They are... peculiar, but some of their insights are valuable.15:28
Zabathere’s often no difference whatsoever in terms of replaceability or the software interface in built-in firmware and firmware loaded by the OS, literally the only difference is the storage mechanism 15:28
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Zabaand firmware loaded by the OS is *more* transparent, even if it’s a bjnary blob 15:29
alcedoYes, yes, I'm trying to get rid of it as much as possible in a meaningful way.15:30
Zabait’s *easier* to ensure that no one has modified it without the knowledge of the OS even if you can only compare binaries 15:30
alcedoI am talking about not really caring about the firmware of isolated components.15:30
Zababut the only way to get rid of it in a truly meaningful way is to just use ancient hardware, or FPGAs15:30
Zababut they are not isolated?15:30
Zabajust because rheyre not conspicuous doesn’t mean there’s any isolation  15:31
alcedoI am not talking about who loads the firmware, I'm talking about which devices I care if it's a blob or something I actually compiled.15:32
alcedoFor example, I have 0 clue about what piece of software runs on my USB stick.15:33
alcedoBut, what matters to me is that that device cannot request from my OS to read my memory.15:33
alcedoAnd since I store data encrypted, the only malicious thing (barring exploits in the communcation itself) that USB can do is corrupt the data or utilize any other DoS on itself.15:34
Zabait can also enumerate as a HID device and opportunistically type in commands that will cause the system to leak data somewheee 15:35
alcedoI know, but let's say I allow, via the kernel, that only my "trusted" keyboard, mouse, and touchpad are allowed as input devices, for simplicity's sake.15:36
alcedoWhat I'm trying to say is that with something like the WiFi card, I don't need to trust, as long as I have a convenient way of cutting it power and it doesn't have DMA.15:37
alcedoBut anything that runs on the CPU or has shared memory with it, I simply cannot trust.15:38
alcedoOr, more realistically, I don't want to.15:39
alcedoOh, and about the loading of firmware from the userspace vs by the component itself: I agree with you. I would rather be the one supplying the firmware even if it's a blob.15:41
Zabahaving an IOMMU to limit DMA only to what a device is supposed to access is not that uncommon these days 15:41
alcedoHere is where part of the FSF's ridiculousness starts: they, very much, wouldn't like that. But, if you put that binary blob onto a seperate flash chip (with a seperate CPU, ideally) so the user can't access it, they will happily give you a certification.15:42
alcedoThat's how the Librem 5 got it, despite techincally having more binary blobs than the PinePhone (the latter needs to supply a blob for the RealTek WiFi/BT chip to work).15:43
Zababut most of those onboard firmwares are not *difficult* to access, they are simply not routinely accessed 15:43
alcedoIf you have the tools, that is.15:43
Zabamost devices will have commands to update the firmware 15:44
alcedoZaba: Regarding the IOMMU, as far as I know, that's a feature reserved for the x86 processors. ARM, purportedly, has SMMU, but I have never seen it in the wild.15:45
alcedoYes, most devices will probably have a .exe that automagically updates the firmware (or a seperate bootable image).15:46
Zababut for example, your description includes every even remotely modern storage device, except ATA in PIO mode15:47
alcedoUSB and UART don't have DMA, I think.15:49
ZabaI mean like SATA or NVMe15:49
alcedoYep.15:50
alcedoPart of the issue, sadly.15:50
alcedoI mean, I am not going to lie to you, I am currently on an x86 PC with an NVMe SSD, so if anybody wanted to do me any harm, they would have done so already. But I don't delude myself that I am an interesting target to be exploited in such a way.15:51
alcedoI just have visceral hatred for why it even is the way it is.15:52
Zabaand that seems like a bigger fish to fry than some feeble eDP transmission IP block in the ls1028a :D15:52
Zabaor some ddr training blob 15:53
alcedoStill, weighing my options.15:54
alcedoIf I can avoid it, I will.15:54
alcedojosch: Sorry, I got carried away a bit. To answer the question: sadly, no, I, basically, require a laptop and cannot haul an external screen everywhere. That being said, the Station looks quite neat!15:56
alcedoZaba: Although, funny that you mention that. I am a bit confused by the RK3588's description. On the shop-pages, it mentions a DDR training blob AND closed GPU firmware, but on the 'Modularity' table, it only mentions the former.15:59
alcedoWhat gives?15:59
minutealcedo: to offer some practical insight, you would need some type of card that would scan out an image to eDP. 16:08
minutealcedo: this hasn't been done because so far no one cared enough about this to pay for the engineering to make that happen.16:09
minutealcedo: it's news to me that librem 5 ever got ryf16:17
minutealcedo: gpu firmware is optional on rk358816:19
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minuteyou can run it with software rendering if you want. that leaves then only the memory blob.16:20
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alcedominute: Hmm, thanks for the explanation regarding the eDP and the RK chip.16:24
alcedominute: About the Librem 5, sorry, looks like my information is a smidge incorrect. It never actually got the RYF certification (even thought there has been a lot of discourse about 'how it's bound to happen' on the Purism forum), but it is tentativelly recommended by the FSF (alongside the fully-endorsed PureOS).16:26
alcedoTheir "giving guide" lists it there (hey, MNT is also there!).16:30
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minutealcedo: yep16:55
alcedominute: Does the DIY kit of the Reform come with the old motherboard and battery board designs and the NXP processor (MX8MQ)?17:01
alcedoOr is this question more suited for Crowdsupply?17:01
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minutealcedo: is there still a diy kit in stock?18:10
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alcedo(Wow, my connection is dying. I don't know if my last message went through, so I am going to repeat it.)18:19
alcedoI just checked, and it says that diy kits are indeed in stock.18:20
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jfredI20:54
jfredwhoops20:54
jfredI've been playing around with Noctalia on my RK3588 Pocket Reform in place of e.g. waybar. It's *very* pretty20:55
josch"A user you’ve blocked has previously contributed to this repository." uhoh20:58
jfredwould that be claude?20:58
joschyes20:58
jfredyeah, that's not all that surprising, heh20:59
^alexslop! slop! slop!21:02
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alcedoDo we know how is Reform Next progressing? I see that CS is pushing the shipment date for preorders by a month after they get exceeded.21:10
joschalcedo: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/11672648428168661821:15
jfredso excited about the Next :D21:31
mjwmine currently says Estimated to ship: Jun 30, 202621:32
mjwdunno how realistic that is.21:33
alcedoThanks, josch.21:36
alcedoACTION considers following mastodon more closely21:36
jfredmjw: The April update said "assembly will start in July 2026" - so, I think the CS estimate is not quite realistic (https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2026-04-30-april-update.html)21:39
alcedojfred: What is the usual assembly-to-shipping timeframe?21:40
mjwok, so maybe enf of July might be more realistic.21:41
jfredalcedo: that I don't know21:46
alcedoSomething puzzles me, though. How is it that only the Reform got the oshwa certification and not any other device?21:49
alcedoIs something disqualifying them, or is it something that's not a priority right now?21:49
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