<samueldr>
whew! must have had a fluke somewhere in the first `dd` armv7l image had a broken ext4 fs; either that or since I unplugged without serial or video, I may have wrecked the FS while it was resizing
<samueldr>
but a second `dd` and serial, everything is fine
<gchristensen>
nice
<samueldr>
oh, I was scared for nothing, it's from a commit before the even-more-shrunken ext4
<gchristensen>
with the shrinking, can hydra produce it yet?
<samueldr>
it should
<samueldr>
assuming 4.19 builds without timing out
<gchristensen>
nice!
<samueldr>
which it really shouldn't except I think there's some pressure
<gchristensen>
pressure?
<samueldr>
memory, cpu, I/O
<gchristensen>
:/
<samueldr>
it looks like *something* makes the kernel builds timeout frequently on aarch64
<gchristensen>
we have massive hardware, underutilized
<gchristensen>
I don't understand why things are timing out
<samueldr>
I'm thoroughly confused by the hydra results for aarch64 and the kernels
<samueldr>
>> building of '/nix/store/jiq9jr3xvs9qv1bzcsvsrfgivw6dqkc6-linux-4.19.7', '/nix/store/ppjy2hg938yw5anqkjfwn3ml0yw1l31a-linux-4.19.7-dev' timed out after 36000 seconds
<samueldr>
>> Duration:4h 0m 19s
<samueldr>
(I'm not throwing this at your feet or anything, only really confused)
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<gchristensen>
so I haven't been super "in" with liitle rpi's and stuff but I do have a project I'd love to do with one
<gchristensen>
which is: I have a big keyboard -- the kinesis advantage, with lots of space inside
<gchristensen>
I think it'd be pretty rad to stick one inside, hook its usb cable in to itself, and operate it using blind accessibility tools (text to speech, etc)
<gchristensen>
obviously ideally it'd use bluetooth and batteries, so it wouldn't require any plugs at all, you'd just be a weirdo hacking away on an "obviously" disconnected keyboard any
<gchristensen>
s/ any$//
<samueldr>
(and?)
<samueldr>
most of what you described would be done like on any device
<samueldr>
so if you wanted tts+bluetooth, as long as the sbc supports bluetooth it should be similar
<gchristensen>
and nothing, just a thing I've wanted to play with
<samueldr>
I was more curiout about other requirements :)
<gchristensen>
I used to think about using miniitx for it, but it is quite a bit too big
<samueldr>
(the and?)
<gchristensen>
ah
<gchristensen>
I also used to think about having it have a screen of some sort, but that kills the project right away
<samueldr>
since you can be seen using the screen?
<gchristensen>
no, because it would be really tiny and unergonomic -- staring down at it
<samueldr>
ah
<gchristensen>
or big and kill the integrated feel
<samueldr>
I think you're either at the point of figuring hardware out or software out for your project, with nixos it won't be much of a problem to send it to an SBC instead
<samueldr>
but hardware is hard :/
<samueldr>
most affordable (cheap) SBCs have one catch
<samueldr>
(in my experience)
<gchristensen>
slow?
<samueldr>
in my experience, depends on the size, and the SOC, but the main catch I found is how supported it is by mainline
<samueldr>
generally: not really at first
<samueldr>
and then still not really
<gchristensen>
ah
<gchristensen>
yes
<samueldr>
a good thing to check is if there seems to be a community "downstream" (e.g. pine64 has their own forums, with activity) and if other SBC-orientated projects have builds
<samueldr>
(e.g. armbian, archlinuxarm)
<samueldr>
oh, and also how "open" the OEM is, do they host well-forked forks of the tools, or just give you pre-built images without any information