Mastodawn

I should decide on a "I want to run my #MNTReform laptop entirely off solar this summer" plan. I would ideally use a small battery and panel for this project, but that's not entirely practical due to battery sizes, I think.

I absolutely have the panel and battery capacity to do this, the question is just "how small and inexpensively can I do this and still have it be practical".

I work from home and basically have it on from waking to sleeping because I'm a giant dork.

wpltyps219129 1d ago

Japan diary, day132

Finally, I succeeded to install 9front to ThikPad P14s Gen1 !!
I struggled with /dev/sdN0/esp setting and vga setting.
Clockwise from the top left, Panasonic CF-SV, MNT reform i.Mx8MQ, MNT reform A311D (Debian/Linux), ThinkPad.

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UnlikelyLass 2d ago

@richpuchalsky Like this?

https://mntre.com/

#MNTReform #MNTPocketReform

MNT Research GmbH

MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.

UnlikelyLass 6d ago

Hm.

I bet you could adapt the power circuitry of the #MNTReform Classic into a USB power bank...

https://post.lurk.org/@praxeology/116386845144873781

Hart of the Wud (@[email protected])

Does anyone know of a powerbank that has replaceable LiFePO4 batteries? I'd like to find something that's less disposable.

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Jonathan Frederickson Apr 5

New blog post, on my somewhat odd and highly personalized everyday carry: https://www.terracrypt.net/posts/whats-my-bag.html

I've been asked about this before, so here it is :)

#mntreform

pandora Apr 2

After 4 months my custom etched copper back plate of my @mntmn Pocket Reform slowly started to form a nice patina. Really curious how it will develop further #mntreform #mntpocketreform

wpltyps219129 Apr 2

Japan diary, day118

Left : MNT reform, Right : Panasonic CF-SV

9front on Panasonic CF-SV8FDSQR worked well.
9fornt is truly amazing.
Next is Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen1, but CPU server and nvram aren't working properly.
I'd like to start learning programing soon, not just install only.

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UnlikelyLass Mar 27

I should add that, because of it's design, I do have the option of removing the batteries and running the #MNTReform solely off wall power, so there is a graceful decay path here. It has caused the OS to shut itself down once today, though. Hopefully that won't keep up.

UnlikelyLass Mar 27

New weird power behavior on the #MNTReform this morning.

The LPC is correctly reporting the battery state, but the wiring between that and the OS is clearly confused. Started full today, around the time I was down to 94% the OS dropped to 11%. Then 5%. Then up to 100%. I put it back on external power. LPC shows back to 100%, but OS is still reporting 11%.

This could be a lot of things, including actual chip damage due to the event that blew the fuse a few weeks back.

UnlikelyLass Mar 23

Even for me this feels like an excessive level of jank:

#MNTReform classic HDMI out to HDMI -> active (usb powered) display port adapter -> 15+ year old display port to 2 DVI ports matrox adapter thing (basically presents two monitors to the OS as one in hardware, usb powered) -> 2x passive DVI -> HDMI -> 2x 1080p 24" monitors.

Works seamlessly! Just got to remember that going "full screen" on the external is stretched across both monitors...