/g/ embracing android?

my friend gave me an ASUS tinkerboard (some ARM thing with rpi-3 form factor) which has an android rom available from the manufacturer. in less than an hour, i had a comfy media center going. way faster than any linux setup i've ever done. yes, in fact, my tv does have an email address with e2ee. that's how easy this setup was. i'm already done.

i will "support" linux by supporting android. there are a lot of android phones. that's the salvage OS of the near future. salvage phones that we will never have the source code for. some of the system will be a binyary blob forever. that's ok. we'll hack and repair them best we can. no point in bricking a device for yourself that could be useful with a little crack job. its pragmatic. and yeah we should still pressure device manufacturers to hand over the specs and even more details about their tech, to hand over the memes of production.

i'm tempted to run android on my laptop now too.. certainly throws some wrenches into my inferno/tomo dev projects, but i think its a good move.

android-x86

ZoL on android

does this change anything wrt pikabu?

not really. i think pikabu probably has nudged me back in this direction.

i'm thinking pikabu will be the shiny corporate store friendly chat client. per apple store laws only able to run hard-coded network contracts that are innocuous enough to pass the scrutiny of the app inspector. easy to install from apple store, play, and aurora (or another play client). we'll get on fdroid once i get going on the proper nyative client and don't have to deal with publishing a react nyative application on fdroid.

to be clear, i'm not going to make any attempts to allow pikabu to circumvent the restrictions that apple and google place on their corporate stores. pikabu is strategically placed on these stores to demostrate the viability of my information-centric networking stack design. using bbnet to its fullest capabilities is an milestone in itself. accessibility to non-technical mobile devices users is far more important. don't worry though, the nyative client will be a direct clone of pikabu, but with network contracts enyabled.. that's where the real fun begins.

nyu.tokyo (pikabu hub)

making slow progress on my trash server cluster thing. i've remounted the t61 motherboard into its stripped down chassis. the 4 rpi blade is setup with offsets. just need to find a way to mount everything, hook up the power supply and some extra disks and we're good to go on the hardware side. going to start by setting up a smaller replica of the 9cluster i want to build using a couple more rpis that i have here, complete with PXE booting. (..i have a lot of rpis gods) once i'm happy with it i'll setup the trash server cluster using my new home cluster as a template. i haven't decided exactly how i want to allocate the hardware, but the machine should at min give me my laptop back. i like the "using a laptop as a server" thing, but i think i like being able to use my laptop as a laptop. server should be a spare.

i'll have to shake this thing down for a while before i ship it. make sure everything is operating smoothly in the new distributed setup. want to have this stuff all taken care of way ahead of pikabu dev so i can donyate a well-tested multi-region cluster to the cooperative ^^

see also

pikabu project

my friend