Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️
Whelp. I don't know Python from Bash, yet here I am on the bleeding edge with my brand-new PineTab-V, the world's first tablet running on a RISC-V chip. Surely I am not the only person on Mastodon with one, but I am having trouble finding any sort of community online for this tablet. It runs a flavor of Debian made by StarFive just for this chip. It comes with LibreOffice, Firefox, and VLC preinstalled, but that's about it. If you have one, I'd love to hear from you. #PineTabV#RISCV
Mar 23 at 1:06pmWeb
Show threadProf. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️1d ago
The first challenge will be finding out what the default user password in the preinstalled StarFive Debian distro is. No, it's not "changeme." Anyone know? #Pine64 #PineTab #PineTabV #StarFive
[EDIT] It's "starfive." Thank. you, @tootbrute and @sylvie
Show thread:cool_s:ylvie 1d ago
@RachelThornSub “starfive” I believe
Show threadProf. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️1d ago
@sylvie Thank you!
Show threadtootbrute1d ago
@RachelThornSub starfive if you have the 2025 batch
https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab-V/_full/
PineTab-V (Single Page) — PineTab-V

The PineTab-V with the detachable keyboard attached The PineTab-V is PINE64’s first RISC-V tablet. It is based on the JH7110 64-bit RISC-V SoC.

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Show threadProf. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️1d ago
@tootbrute Thank you! I managed to get on the official Pine64 IRC server and got the same answer from someone on the #pinetab channel.
Show threadtootbrute1d ago
@RachelThornSub rock on!
Show threadtootbrute1d ago
@RachelThornSub neato!
Show threadKitty Jynx1d ago
@RachelThornSub I have a PineTab 2. It came with a version of Arch that literally bricked the system requiring a reinstall when I tried to do the initial update with the automatic tools. It could be updated through manually adding and deleting packages one by one but would brick randomly when major updates happened. I ended up throwing a version of Debian on it. It works fine now. How do you like the RISC-V so far? I'm planning to pick one up soon!
Show threadMichael Engel1d ago
@RachelThornSub I ordered one early on when no useful OS was available but it's sitting on a shelf since. IIRC, the JH7110 SoC doesn't have working power management (known erratum), so the device seems to be pretty useless as a tablet. I wonder what your experience is.