Yeah, I just installed 64GB (gigabuttonmushrooms)

Silly story in there.

And the world came to a grinding halt as the random access memory everyone had taken for granted for so long suddenly decided it didn't feel like it today.

Babe wake up, new mushrooms just dropped..

i8008

heh. iBOOB. lol.

That's strange that it has mini PCIe slots for the WiFi. Is anyone still making mini PCIe cards?

Certainly doesn't help that it's ugly as hell.

Well it is just a research prototype, no where near production

There is nothing they could possibly slap into a 'smart ring' that would make it worth wearing a battery around my finger.

Certainly doesn't help that it's ugly as hell.

Yes. I don't imagine we will see Linux Mint on these soon (though I could be wrong).

I have put command line Armbian on previous Orange Pi devices happily enough.

With the AI bait in the ad text, I'm guessing the first adopters of this will be folks running a custom purpose home headless local LLM?

I'm still tempted to get one for my own shop PC and just run Armbian desktop. I bet Octoprint would run great on this.

Orange Pi makes some cool stuff. It's nice to see them at it again.

And this feels like leaning into their strengths - great power for the price in a small form factor.

I found Orange Pi boards just okay as alternate Raspberry Pi boards, because many precompiled Pi projects aren't compatible.

But when I'm building my own thing on a Linux base, Orange Pi is a fantastic option - generally great hardware for the price, and a solid ecosystem of Linux base images (for a very affordable board, anyway.)

Let's hope the price is right

Sounds pretty cool.

I've been keeping an eye on these for a while now. I eventually intend on getting a 20" touch screen and connecting an SBC or nuc to the back to make a cool little media playing, web and pdf viewing machine for use inside of my shop. So basically.. a "shop computer". I was eyeing the Orange Pi 5's but I recall an amazon comment noting that distro support was limited. With that in mind, I am leaning more towards NUC territory.

This is the big issue for me right now.

I'm looking for an SBC to be the guts of a cyberdeck fun distraction, and I was originally thinking an rk3588 would be cool, but there's no support for vulkan yet, some of the I/O can be a problem, etc.

Its making me think I'll just end up getting an n100/n150, but I didnt really want to get an Intel chipset for it.

Is what it is I guess. I hope this one has support off the jump.

This is looking like some serious hardware. Orange Pi is starting to eat into the Intel NUC territory.

What I really hope is that the NPU they advertise gets plenty of software support so it's more than just a marketing ploy.

I was hoping the voice would answer everything in the tune /tone of take me to the river. 1/10. Back to the drawing board bud.

I don’t think this is even the first time I’ve seen someone do this

I got a job for his mouth.

This is wild that someone can just buy a hydroelectric dam on Facebook Marketplace. I’ve read the first blog post and it looks like these guys brought together a unique set of skills to make it happen without needing big outside engineering support. Probably going to read through all of the posts.

The first combined product is the Arduino UNO Q and built off the Qualcomm Dragonwing platform with a focus on AI capabilities.

Joy of joys.

This is what we get for buying the cheap Arduino knockoffs all these years instead of the real thing. /s

Well it was fun while it lasted.

What a non-issue. From Microsoft's immutable laws of security, written decades ago:

Law #3: If a bad actor has unrestricted physical access to your computer, it's not your computer anymore.

The classic example was an attacker can simply take a baseball bat to your system if they have physical access

ARM processors are held hostage by Windows ecosystem which still is not fully compatible with anything that is not x86/x64

This has been the main way to update storage on the iphone going back several generations because they bond the chip. You can do it other ways that are more hacky and more likely to fail but if you have the equipment this is the way to go (probably, I’m certainly not doing these upgrades lmao)

That's brilliant, thank you :)

Temporarily out of stock. Darn.

I added links to the other comment