This RISC-V cyberdeck is not for you

The fact that a RISC V chip is running a desktop environment and a chromium based browser is really promising. I am really getting excited to get real usable phones and laptops using RISC V.

Wife: "Why'd you buy that?" Me: "Jeff Geerling said it wasn't for me!" Wife: "What will you do with it?" Me: "Donate it to Goodwill two years from now!"

I really like that you add proper subtitles to your videos, it's a nice touch

I used a netbook in graduate school. It would be awesome if they made a comeback.

If they wanted it to boot sideways (the display is already sideways, so, horizontal), all they have to do is add a boot param to Grub: fbcon=rotate:(INT) Where INT can be: 0 - Normal rotation 1 - Rotate clockwise 2 - Rotate upside down 3 - Rotate counter-clockwise

I'm glad it exists. Thanks for showing it off Jeff!

I have a commodore c64. It also suffers from being bad at almost everything. But I still love it. I can hold it and say, "I remember back in the day......" That is why I still want this thing.

I'm a developer and I am interested in experimenting with RISC-V. As a free software enthusiast, I think RISC-V is the future of computing because it's a radically open platform free of any proprietary blobs like Intel ME or AMD PSP. I believe individuals should have total control over their hardware, and RISC-V could deliver that. But I'm not going to purchase this because I just don't have the money or the need for it at the moment. Still, very promising, I'm very happy to see some real desktop applications running on RISC-V and in a few years, I think there will be a RISC-V device for me.

I had to reboot my microwave to get it working this morning :/ Trying to use it, the timer counted down the seconds but the spinny thing inside and magnetron didn't work. Turned it off at the wall, back on again, and it was fine.

To be fair, we should consider the name of the thing when judging its usefulness. It’s called „console“ and I‘d assume that it works perfectly fine for that usecase: ssh into a headless server.

I ❤ Dark Mode even more when Jeff wears it

I've commented on these little Lichee SoCs before on your videos, and once again, I'm glad to see it getting to the point where we can have full-build dev machines. I imagine in a half-a-decade's time, we'll see this sitting beside ARM in the low-end market where value-add comes from off-die peripherals within the SoC. Maybe in 10 years it'll be good enough to run a tablet or phone. Exciting times!

China's ban on AMD and Intel for some of the Chinese government contracts will give a big rise to a lot RISC-V chips coming out of China

As an old IT support engineer, I was drooling over that form factor as a data center server field support box... (and I personally luv "da' nubbin")... ;-) Too bad that the guts and mechanical design quality seem to blow chunks... And, the "old-school" question was always, "Will it play Crysis?" ;-P

You’re only interacting with the RISC-V ISA if you’re coding in assembly. Otherwise the experience is similar to running a semi-jank Linux on another system on a chip board like oDroid or Tinkerboard

Used to have a Dell Mini 9 that i really liked, wish they'd respin a modern version of that.

We need more palmtops like this again. PLEASE. If you can make gaming handhelds, you sure as hell can make tiny laptops too.

My love of handheld Linux devices dates back to Sharp's Zaurus. Its actual utility was somewhat limited but just the fact that I could noodle on the command line with a PDA was tons of fun. So of course I bought into the Asus Eee PC line starting with the 701 and a couple of models afterwards. Great little machines.

Always nice to hear about RISC V stuff!

What about the devterm or uconsole from clockworkpi? Both of those have options for risc processors when you purchase them.