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.

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...

Anyone else got a Reform running Plan 9, btw? I've never been able to get the reading of data from the lpc to work, and reading reform/pm.c and cross referencing with the lpc firmware, I'm fairly sure the implementation is just wrong.

Has this ever worked? Anyone have it working now? Curious if there was a breaking firmeare change or something...

#plan9 #9front #mntreform #mnt #reform

Has anyone tried modifying a Reform Classic to have removable / hotswappable battery boards?

#MNT #Reform #MNTReform

The MNT Reform Next in purple is my "someday" upgrade. It is fully open source, modular, and repairable. It is a machine that actually respects the user instead of fighting them. Plus, that purple is beautiful. I have respect for MNT Research for being one of the few ethically sound companies in Tech.

#MNTReform #OpenSource #RightToRepair #DigitalSovereignty #MNTReformNext