Post AXnSemr5oTle27VjZQ by Konqi@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #AXaUN0YRjkcoDMVB6O by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-11T14:31:57Z
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Hey @jorge the latest ublue image worked with my 1st gen GPD Pocket laptop out of the box. While I dislike the keyboard layout on this laptop, I love the tiny form factor for travel and I'm going to try this out at #FOSSY this week as a presentation laptop.
(DIR) Post #AXaj6vU0OzUt6xflOC by jorge@hachyderm.io
2023-07-11T16:03:52Z
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@neil @kyle I would love to play with that thing!
(DIR) Post #AXaj6wNf4415tZiD8i by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-11T17:17:06Z
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@jorge @neil It is a really cool machine... until you start typing on it. I'm pretty forgiving for odd keyboard layouts but this one is truly frustrating.That said, I think it will be perfect for giving basic presentations, where I want a mirrored image of what is sent to the projector to act as prompts for my talk.
(DIR) Post #AXmyjMsKpuNoHTMOVU by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-17T15:08:41Z
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Update: The GPD Pocket worked great as a "presentation appliance" at FOSSY. The screen was large enough to serve its purpose (showing me a copy of my slides so I can stay on topic) and was able to drive the display.I still carried around a backpack, but that was largely so I had room for the much larger Nexdock for my Librem 5. If I wasn't compelled to do Nexdock+Librem 5 convergence demos so much, I might just walk around future conferences on "talk day" with a tiny bag for the GPD.
(DIR) Post #AXmywjG2vjKhSmp1Q8 by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-17T15:11:07Z
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I should probably also note that I did consider powering the presentation from my Librem 5. It could have displayed the presentation on the screen no problem, but the tricky bit is *mirroring* the display on its own 720x1440 screen. I tested this at home, and finding a landscape resolution I could mirror on both the Librem 5 screen and the display was challenging (and most conferences want you to pick a standard resolution if they are recording).
(DIR) Post #AXnDcd0Ly4zXafM4Bc by agx@social.librem.one
2023-07-17T17:55:34Z
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@kyle pdfpc handles that nicely. I'm still dragging around a fork for #mobile use with #phosh: https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/pdfpc-mobile You get the slides on the external output and a shrinked version with your notes on the #librem5 screen.
(DIR) Post #AXnDrMQTtBNcW5bKAS by agx@social.librem.one
2023-07-17T17:58:14Z
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@kyle pdfpc handles that nicely. I'm still dragging around a fork for #mobile use with #phosh: https://source.puri.sm/guido.gunther/pdfpc-mobile You get the slides on the external output and a shrinked down version with your notes on the #librem5 screen.
(DIR) Post #AXnE3Vl51AHCw21uJk by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-17T18:00:25Z
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@agx Interesting! That could work well if I reformatted my presentations to PDF. I have been using Eric Meyer's S5 web-based presentation software for a decade or so, so I end up presenting out of a regular browser.
(DIR) Post #AXnEwu8Y53TKTFQ8em by agx@social.librem.one
2023-07-17T18:10:25Z
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@kyle I've explored the browser route many years back and went back to PDF as it's easier to drag around and I can do it in org mode. It's usually less flashy though.
(DIR) Post #AXnFGRMwkRXn2aTEjA by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-17T18:13:57Z
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@agx My presentations are very simple, just bulleted lists, but the main thing for me is the ability to advance to the next item in the bulleted list when I "advance" the slide. To achieve that in a PDF I assume I would need to create a new page each time. Well that and the decade+ of presentations I already have hosted in HTML on https://kylerank.in/talks/ and the ease of creating new presentations in VIM (which I guess I could still do using LaTeX).
(DIR) Post #AXnOGhT3nEHMYbWqbg by agx@social.librem.one
2023-07-17T19:54:51Z
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@kyle That's handled by beamer. In org-mode it's just#+BEAMER: \pausee.g. https://git.sigxcpu.org/cgit/talks/2022-07-dc22-debian-on-smartphones/tree/talk.org#n91
(DIR) Post #AXnSemr5oTle27VjZQ by Konqi@mastodon.social
2023-07-17T20:44:00Z
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@kyle Is the GPD Pocket GNU/Lunux Friendly? How good perfomed during your presentation?
(DIR) Post #AXnTNHEAFeygyLW6RE by kyle@mastodon.kylerank.in
2023-07-17T20:52:04Z
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@Konqi I can only speak to the first gen hardware. When it was first released, support required a customized distro (because they put a portrait-mode tablet touchscreen in), and installers would display sideways, but over the past few years the vanilla distros I have tried have "just worked" once it is installed.I have used Ubuntu and now Silverblue default installers on it successfully. Works out of the box in both cases. It does use blobs for WiFi.