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Re: New project



On 7/24/22 22:41, folkert wrote:
>>> If you're still interested in using Ingenic SoCs, the JZ4775 is still produc$
>>
>> What's wrong with that?  I see no need for multicore unless you insist
>> on using bloatware like "modern" (which these days appears to mean
>> "sloppily written") "desktop environments" (which these days appears to
>> mean "way too much policy and not enough exposed mechanism").
>>
>> I would actually say that going for a less powerful machine is a _good_
>> thing, because it teaches people to be parsimonious with machine
>> resources, pushing back against the sort of sloppiness that leads to
>> (and this is not a hypothetical example!) an MUA taking up over 3/4 gig
>> of RAM.



> It's more likely that it will be trashed as it won't do
> tiktokfacebooktwitterwhatevertheseyoungstersdo.

You can get attention as long as the device actually solves some problems,
even it's the problems of a small group of people.

https://hackaday.io/project/185645-notkia - this was made by me. I hope it
will have the opportunity to run NetBSD after the legal stuff are sorted out.

FYI, I'm a youngster :)


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