Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

The start of something beautiful

#librem5 #linuxphone #linux

ChatGPT is not behaving pathologically when it claims that the population of Mars is 2.5 billion people—it's behaving exactly as it was designed to, making up linguistically plausible responses to dialogue, in the absence of any underlying knowledge model, and guessing when its training set offers nothing more specific.

My #Librem5 had been delivered with a Redpine RS9116 M.2 Key E card for #Bluetooth and #Wifi.

I already owned two devices I wanted to use with my Librem5:

a bluetooth mouse to be used alongside with my nexdock360
a high quality noise canceling bluetooth headset I use for phone calls and sometimes to listen to music

Both didn't work well: the mouse wouldn't connect (Bluetooth LE only) and the headset connection was unreliable with a lot of stutter.

In newer Librem5s the SparkLAN WNFB-266AXI card is used for Bluetooth/Wifi. I exchanged the card to find out whether this would improve the situation and it did.

Both devices connect now, most of the stutter while listening to music is gone, the headset works for calls (but unusable due to bad quality) and my mouse connects and works fine.

@purism@librem.one wrote a blog post about the new card and made it available on their shop.

P.D. If ever a small golden pin falls out of your Librem5 after you opened it read this forum post.

Save The Date: Next Seattle MNT Reform meetup on Feb. 26! https://community.mnt.re/t/save-the-date-next-seattle-mnt-reform-meetup-on-feb-26/1390

So I've been building a 100% analog polyphonic synthesizer with an unique twist. To use only vacuum tube era technology from the 1930s.

Over 300 neon gas diodes create the sound you hear. Pretty awesome for technology from 100 years ago.

Still a work-in-progress, but I wanted to post a video of it with the innards spread out across the workbench. : }

I call it the "Neon String Machine"

#synthesizers #music #electronics #audio #synthwave

I'd really like to thank jenneron[1] for their contributions to #postmarketOS! 🎉

They have been the 2nd highest committer to pmOS over the past 6 months. Recent contributions include adding new devices, simplifying the boot process for many devices, and adding new ways to support booting on others.

They've also added something like 26(!!!) new device ports since they began contributing to pmOS 🤯

1. https://gitlab.com/jenneron

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