Mecha Comet is a modular Linux handheld coming soon to Kickstarter for $159
  • w3dd1e@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    I see a lot of negativity in the comments. And yeah, this thing probably isn’t something I’m going to get, but at least they are trying something that isn’t a generic rectangle of glass like all the others. I miss the days of fun gadgets.

  • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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    24 days ago

    Ooof. After having a pinephone, I know what 2 or 3GB of RAM can handle these days. Not much, really. Specially the moment you open the browser. I’m going to pass from any project that doesn’t attempt to at least get close to this decade’s standards.

      • iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee
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        6 days ago

        I think you’re checking the Pro model. This one has a more powerful CPU and more RAM, and would have been a better option, except it had miserable failures to get it to boot or control the battery on launch, and development has been much slower than on the normal Pinephone, which although is woefully underpowered, it launched earlier and had a bigger support base. Pinephone Pro, while on paper being more powerful, stayed unusuable for rather long. I actually have both, and I haven’t checked recently to see if the Pro is any better these days. The normal one while having a much better compatibility (a lot of things worked with very little troubleshooting), RAM was seriously an Achilles heel, and you’d notice it the moment you opened Firefox or attempted to launch waydroid.

  • irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee
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    23 days ago

    It looks cool and all, but its probably going to have like 400mb of ram and an rp2040 like every other linux handheld device.

        • Michal@programming.dev
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          23 days ago

          With 640x480 screen i doubt it’ll be used for web browsing, unless you use lynx. Firefox in a pinch, but my guess is this will appeal mostly to Linux terminal users.

          • piexil@lemmy.world
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            12 days ago

            yeah people arguing about the usefulness of this thing clearly aren’t the target audience

            And they should just accept that lol