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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 03:14:16 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
   www.notebookcheck.net/Pine64-w…
   
   A Pinebook Pro with more RAM, bigger SSD, USB-C and FreeBSD support for only double the price? Yum.
   
   And a PineTab with basically original Pinebook specs, but touch screen and detachable screen, for the same price as the Pinebook? Too bad I already have enough computers and tablets!
   
   www.notebookcheck.net/Pine64-w…
   
   The only complaints I have with my Pinebook are:
   
   - Actually 2 GiB RAM feels pretty tight and the CPU too, but that's what you pay for.
   - Horrible physical keyboard layout. My friend's HP (IIRC) the same size has a perfectly reasonable layout where you can reach backslash and apostrophe without Fn, and you don't press up-arrow all the time when you mean shift.
   - Bad driver support (screen black after coming back from close-lid suspension, no sound, bad video -- maybe these are fixable, if so please tell me how).
   
   So the first is slightly upgraded on the Pro, and I hope they'll fix the other two, and that would mean fixing the drivers for me as well.
   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 03:27:07 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      As always, complaining in public motivates me to solve my own problems. The Manjaro 18.12.1 release for Pinebook looks promising.
      
      forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-ar…
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 03:34:44 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         Also armbian: www.armbian.com/pinebook-a64/
         
         People are still complaining that video doesn't work well in the browser, but mpv does work well.
   2. Mister M. T. Sack (thatbrickster@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2019 03:37:12 EDT Mister M. T. Sack

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      @clacke They announced it before FOSDEM. I’m very interested in it as it’s non-x86.