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- This is very interesting. I was looking into the viability of something like this a few months ago and started seeing eye watering prices and closed off ecosystems. And many gotchas when looking into diy, more than I could justify learning about.
- it has a few issues, I think jeffgeerling sums it up fairly well.
https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/82
"Like the Pi 4, I think this system is the first RISC-V desktop environment that isn't painful to use, just inconvenient. Actions still have delays, but the delays are more reasonable, and don't make me constantly question if the computer's frozen."
also some really odd choices by Eswin for the eic7702x, which is essentially 2 p550 chips glued together.
- There’s also this RISC V thing, I ordered one in July and got mine in November.
I could transplant the desktop model I got into my original framework, but I haven’t attempted it.
https://store.deepcomputing.io/products/dc-roma-ai-pc-risc-v...
- It’ll just make their auditors and legal team desperate for money, which is kinda horrifying to consider.
When the OS assumes correctly what the monitor actually looks like, you get even better text rendering. When it guesses wrong you get a horrible mess.