Snippets as in digital snippets collaged together? Or did you hand draw/paint them? It looks almost like the images we used to make of magazine snips.

I do love an old scool craft project.

Four hundred bucks for 8gb of ram, three face plates, the upgraded uber slow processor and 128gb of storage. 3.92” amoled screen.

Four fifty for an ayn Thor with 16gb of ram, 1tb nvme. 6” amoled screen and 3.92” bottom amoled screen.

That’s how I escaped the marketing. Pricing and specs. If your primary use case is just gaming and not a very low power handheld PC, it’s just not good.

A $90 miyoo mini plus 128gb is just fine for small portable handheld emulator too. Sold on Amazon and not a kickstarter fantasy that could take years. I’m sure there’s many other better options.

These things don’t have feature parity. They don’t do all the same things. They are however way better at what they do.

No. You don't need it.

Just get a used ThinkPad for work, and whichever handheld game console if you want to play while on a trip.

Run Linux on ThinkPad. It's open source too.

I already have a work laptop running Linux, but it doesn't support GPIO or LoRa without additional dongles/accessories. Working on industrial equipment while occasionally in remote locations, makes this device appealing to me specifically.

I'm also fortunate to have my employer willing to foot the bill, especially when they can also see the utility of this device in our line of work.

If you don't work in this specific niche, your mileage will obviously vary.

Great! Go for it then.

I don't know what's LoRa though, but can't you just plug an Arduino board to the computer's USB port and get a bunch of GPIOs? It's cheap. It's durable.

Already done!

LoRa is a low power radio communication protocol that is very useful for warehouse and farming equipment, among many other things. I currently use ESP32s for GPIO, LoRa, and Wifi, and occasionally FPGAs for various tasks. But ad-hoc testing and diagnosis can be a pain for these devices, requiring multiple different dongles, power adapters, and converters.

If I can consolidate 75% of that gear into a single, handheld device, it will easily pay for itself in productivity gains.

LTE and NVME is mutually exclusive on the device I believe.

If all you need is a 3.92” screen, 8GB of ram or less, 128GB of space plus an sd card, and a tiny screen then it’s fine. Kickstarter though means unknown delivery date. I don’t think they’ve sold anything before?

Having a dedicated handheld device with the features of a smartphone, running Linux natively (not just android), and also GPIO and LoRa are what make this especially appealing to me. Everything being open source brings this from "I'll probably buy this" to "shut up and take my money" for me personally.

Sure, I could probably get accessories to achieve the same thing with my work phone. But if something catastrophic happens and the phone is damaged, I'm having a very bad day. Damaging a $300-400 device sucks, but I can still call my boss and ask him to order a replacement and receive calls from customers at the end of the day.

Of course these specific benefits are unique to me and my line of work. I also thankfully have a boss who trusts my judgment when purchasing new tools and tech, and a budget that can easily accommodate this kind of investment and risk.

Chabad-Lubavitch, a religious Jewish sect founded in Russia, has grown to an estimated 90,000 members. Its messianic, ultra-Orthodox ideology has repeatedly been linked to hardline settler colonial politics in Palestine.

The memo also cites Berel Lazar, a Chabad member and the former chief rabbi of Russia, describing him as a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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I mean one is a documented fact, and the other is a conspiracy theory democrats were spreading that's now widely known to be a hoax?

Also, people really need to get their conspiracy theories on who is controlling Putin straight. Is it Dugin, is it some weird Jewish sect that's virtually unknown in Russia, is it the aliens?

It's mentioned that Putin has pictures of Trump blowing Bubba as well. It might be a give and take relation. Russia helps Israel in exchange for influence by groups like this over the US. It would explain some weird moves by Trump such as threatening to invade Greenland and blowing up NATO. But connecting all the dots is always easy in hindsight when all the facts are availible. It's all still too vague right now.

is it some weird Jewish sect that’s virtually unknown in Russia

Apparently they have 90.000 members which is a significant size. And Epstein was very much a Jewish surpremacist according to recently released leaks, showing he believed Goyim were subhuman