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<riteo>like, I really don't use my phone as one and if I ever needed one I'd either get a dumbphone or just not overload my android phone with crap
<midfavila>aside from the zaurus having garbo battery life it was sweet
<midfavila>honestly i'm in the same spot. i've found the uconsole great for that.
<riteo>owo
<midfavila>owowowowowowowowowowowowowo
<midfavila>the biggest issue i've had so far is the display is technically portrait
<midfavila>so the kernel framebuffer is too
<riteo>wasn't there a kernel option for that
<midfavila>despite the physical orientation being landscape
<midfavila>there's fbcon
<midfavila>but that only rotates the fb console itself
<riteo>I'm quite sure there's ways around that
<riteo>like the steam deck had to do that
<midfavila>i mean for sure
<riteo>because of the same identical reason
<midfavila>i imagine it'd be an easy kernel patch if there's no way to change it
<midfavila>problem is that sunxi hasn't upstreamed their kernel
<riteo>ouch
<midfavila>and the only way to get source rn is if you a) know chinese and b) sign an nda
<riteo>btw yeah you'd just have to add a quirk: https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-DRM-Misc-Next-For-5.16
<midfavila>sweet
<midfavila>apparently the allwinner d1 does have accelerated media playback
<midfavila>so once that's solved and the framebuffer is rotated ffmpeg can play back straight to the framebuffer
<riteo>that smells like efficiency
<riteo>yes I approve
* riteothumbs up
<midfavila>honestly i'm hoping to write a little curses program to provide a menu interface
<midfavila>use a simple twm-like format to describe it
<midfavila>or maybe xmenu's
<riteo>will you be using the builtin tty or a framebuffer console
<midfavila>then it's a simple matter of setting all the stuffs up and boom
<midfavila>a framebuffer terminal emulator if possible
<midfavila>afaik the d1 doesn't have a hardware cursor?
<midfavila>i've been able to use ansi control codes to set up a software cursor but ofc the second curses gets invoked you need to re-enable it
<midfavila>this has resulted in me mostly using ed on the uconsole
<midfavila>because like, try using vi or nano without a cursor
<midfavila>it sucks
<riteo>oh a cursor like
<riteo>blinky
<midfavila>yeah
<riteo>I was wondering why you needed a pointer lol
<midfavila>:P
<midfavila>caret, point, w/e
<riteo>I mean if you use the fbcon would it matter
<riteo>like I had no idea it was software in general
<midfavila>fbcon is already in use
<midfavila>iirc something to do with quirks of non-x86 platforms..?
<midfavila>don't quote me on that
<riteo>that sounds really weird
<midfavila>it is
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