--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat wrote:
El Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 02:26:51AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
yay! the slashdot article seems to have gone (still going) well - waaa took up my entire day responding to people, but it's resulted in a big jump from $52.5 to $55.2 and still going.
Take a little rest sometime. You're missing a K there, like $55.2K ($55435 already) .
oh - a big jump, yay
I see there're only 13 passthrough cards. I thought there'd be more of those and more laptops once they're on offer. It's been less than a week, though?
yeah about that.
the main thing is, those add to the MOQ of the critical computer card components - the PCMCIA assembly, USB-OTG and so on.
I have some questions on the pasthrough cards, but I haven't looked if there are answers out there already, so I'll look and ask another day in another thread if needed.
Btw, there's a subjective sensation I get, maybe it's just me. But the more recent discussions aren't more positive in tone than at the beginning of the campaign...
people who are in software libre know about it and have gone, "i'll take it!" - now it's a bit harder to explain, especially to people who have the latest and greatest intel processors.
if true this might be good and give hope of a new concept maturing in the public mind and a possible late but in time acceptance... What's the more typical curve in crowdfunding pledges ?
dip in the middle
now... the next person to poke a stick at would be michael larabel, he was so funny saying "awww darn it, you guys keep bugging me about that damn eoma68 thing, ahh i suppooose i'd better write an article theeeen"... if anyone feels so inclined, feel free to poke him with a stick again, point out that the discussion on his forum was huge (20 pages, 200 comments) and that i refer people to it all the time as the technical discussions on there are really valuable, so it gets _him_ some exposure for his site....
Did you miss July 30
http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=50k-Open-Allwinner-Board-...
i wasn't aware of that - yay!