Huge fan of risk-v and massively overwhelmed by analysis paralysis. I‘m in the market for risc-v hardware to develop on and play around with.

After some consideration, I will get an sbc for the hard tinkering and low level stuff and I‘m thinking of getting a tablet for regular use (browing, ebook reading, controlling smart home devices) as well as development and packaging stuff.

My reasoning for using dev hardware on a daily basis is that for myself to be able to use features, I need apps which I am incentivised to compile and package for risc-v.

I‘ve seen very promising risc-v videos but I‘m not sure what to expect from a tablet. To add to that the pinetab v is out of stock which was a strong candidate.

I know there is the new tablet from deepcomputing but its in preorder and the shipping to germany is pretty expensive. (100$ plus). The HD display is pretty awesome compared to the pinetab v but afaik the pinetab comes with accessories.

Any experience with risc-v tablets and which other offers do you consider good?

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOP
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    2 months ago

    Thank you very much for sharing your experience. That is completely within the acceptable range for me. I am fully prepared to compile and tinker.

    I guess I was hoping for someone saying: „I did it with THIS risc v tablet and it works great“ or „there is a problem that you will not overcome likely at this point in time“ like the cameras in postmarketOS are a roadblock rn.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Ah my bad. Sadly I don’t have any experience there. Good luck though. Sounds like a fun project!

        • phanto
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          2 months ago

          I’m not at the level where I compile packages, I’m totally dependent on you techier guys, but I grabbed a Nezha SBC a couple of years ago, downloaded their version of Debian, and… Not much. I could get a desktop, but couldn’t surf. No sound. No WiFi.

          I think I may fire it up again, or grab something newer at some point in the near future. I was eyeballing the Musebook laptop, but it’s too pricey at the moment for what I expect I’ll be getting.

          I’d love to know if it’s a better experience out there now!

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOP
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            2 months ago

            Good luck! I appreciate your praise. Its nice to be seen for the stuff we do.

            That said, you‘re doing a great thing if you try and hit the edge of your comfort zone.

            For me it is running postmarketOS on a pi with plasma since only 50% of things work and I‘m likely going to try to get the rest working too. Currently, sound isnt working either, resource monitor doesnt work and streaming 1080p content is about 3SPF.