[HN Gopher] Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 4: reboot/poweroff
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       Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 4: reboot/poweroff
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2023-03-16 17:09 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.downtowndougbrown.com)
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       | bunnie wrote:
       | Wow! someone is still using a chumby 8! I designed the hardware
       | and some of the firmware... if you get stuck I might have some
       | old notes laying around somewhere still, happy to share them. But
       | from the looks of your post, you've figured out more than I can
       | easily recall about the design.
        
         | dougg3 wrote:
         | Hey, thanks bunnie! I will definitely keep that in mind if I
         | run into any future snags on this project. So far so good!
        
         | Damogran6 wrote:
         | I miss my Chumby One, it had some kinda hardware failure while
         | support was waning (looks like things got better). I've got an
         | Echo 5 now, but it's kinda soulless.
        
           | russdill wrote:
           | Check the caps in the wall wart (or a new wall wart). They
           | went bad in mine and needed replacing.
        
       | agloe_dreams wrote:
       | This is really cool from a 'historical preservation' angle!
       | 
       | From a sane human being angle, this is a ton of work for what is
       | effectively replaced by a Google Nest Hub, Lenovo M8 docked, or
       | Echo 8 or such. Often for well under $50
       | 
       | That said, I would kill for an unlocked bootloader on the FB
       | Portal now that FB is dropping the product. At least give me the
       | ability to install other apps. lol
        
         | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
         | None of those are user-controlled, though; a Chumby is
         | unambiguously the user's tool, rather than serving corporate
         | interests that are quite likely neutral-to-adversarial to the
         | user's best interests.
        
           | agloe_dreams wrote:
           | The Lenovo M8 is an Android tablet with a charging dock. It's
           | not a bare terminal, but you can absolutely decide most of
           | what is on it.
        
             | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
             | Oh, my mistake; I assumed it was one of their "smart
             | displays" (https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/smart-display/),
             | but yeah, Android is... less bad than the others in that
             | list, at least.
        
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