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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

it's building mesa without a heatsink on

btop and mesa build side by side. cpus are at up to 4.1ghz, all saturated and ~90 degrees celsius

Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

eDP display up on Quasar/CQ8750S in MNT Reform/Station! funny how firefox is totally usable even without GPU accleration (llvmpipe software rendering). GPU comes next, gonna need to pull in some kernel patches.

12.5 inch display connected to an open MNT Station with MNT Quasar CQ8750S processor module installed. firefox on screen showing the MNT website

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

today @theawesomerandomness hand-picked&placed rev 3 of the MNT Quasar module with the so far elusive CQ8750S processor. and this time, it turned on successfully and booted into the vendor's stock android console :D i was able to confirm in sysfs that it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

mnt quasar rev d-3 with the second engineering sample of thundercomm thunderx c8750 soldered

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

kde/qt6 experts, i'm sure there is something missing here on the kdenlive splash screen. what, in turn, is my debian missing so it does not show?

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

my anger about this has to go somewhere, someday. the anger is just growing, constantly, with nowhere to go, as the cowards are hiding behind their residential proxy mafia

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

godot (game engine/editor) is absolutely incredible, having lots of fun tinkering with it (on MNT Reform Next w/ Quasar 8550)

screenshot of godot 4 UI with a 3d scene with a green-ish floor, black sky and some concrete blocks standing around

screenshot of POV testing the "gayme 3000"

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

the 14 MNT Hyper Reform Nexts in their cactus leather sleeves, now being packed into boxes for the monday shipment!

14 MNT Hyper Reform Next laptops in their black vegan leather sleeves on the table in front of me. Tina is looking on from the couch

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

brought my 11 laptops to work today because i need 11x productivity (this is how successful ceos do it)

11 black mnt reform next laptops on a table in front of me (pov). tina the little black dog is chilling on the sofa in the distance

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

quick test of @armsom_jackson CM7s in MNT RCM4: a bunch of stuff works out the box with the preinstalled OS (strangely, orangepi branded), such as serial, USB and HDMI

linux console greets us on hdmi with orangepi branding :D

htop shows 8 cores and 4gb ram, even if this board is supposed to have 8gb. we'll see once the official mnt system image works here.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

just for fun, some more pix of yesterday's surgery i found on my phone

pov me sitting at the soldering/microscope table with the bga deadbug in front of me, and a printed map of the highlighted connections on the bga. looks a bit like a go game

closeup on soldered wires on the quasar pcb's pads

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

deadbugged a desoldered qcom 8750 module today (amongst other rework), but has the same faulty behavior as before, so (costly) respin it is... meh

a floating bga above a quasar module in a pocket reform mainboard. some pins of the bga are wired directly to the board with soldered on magnet wire

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

one of the last details was laser engraving the model number badge.

closeup of laser engraved model number badge of mnt reform next

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

these are the first (ever) two shipping MNT Reform Next open hardware laptops! going out this friday to Crowd Supply.

a black hyper reform next and a purple hyper reform next on a white table surface, shot from above. the displays still have protective foil on them.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

printed (locally in berlin, by pinguin) handbooks for MNT Reform Next are in, looking good!

pov me holding the book with black-on-white line art on the cover. it's A5 sized

a look at the GNOME section inside the book

a look at the section about two different SSD slots

a look at schematics, here the processor module slot and main power dcdcs

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

spoiler alert: the MNT Reform Next Operator Handbook, first edition, is now online. enjoy! PDF: mntre.com/documentation/reform-next… HTML: mntre.com/documentation/reform-next…

screenshot of the print file for the MNT Reform Next Operator Handbook. it's front+spine+back cover all in one, with crop marks in the corners.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

pretty cool: grass based product box for the MNT Reform Next laptop. has a nice texture

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

preparing the testing of a new MNT ZZ9000 batch

it's the MNT ZZ9000 graphics- and network card in an open frame amiga a3000

checking amiga-news.de on ibrowse, there's an article about the flood of vibecoded new amiga software, with a chart that 72% of the polled users don't want to use vibecoded amiga software

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

obligatory MNT Reform (Next) Setup Wizard screenshot

it's mnt reform setup wizard (a gtk4/adwaita app) with a new dramatic black splash render of mnt reform next

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

getting there... some minor schematics still missing, and preface, and new cover color. good chance to finish the book tomorrow :0

current state of the mnt reform next operator handbook in pdfarranger, around 123 pages so far.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

referencing prior art is good btw, unfortunately our competitors don't do it :D

editing mnt reform next handbook section that states > The main case has a prominent grid of 20x20mm spaced M2 threads (inspired by Bunnie Studios' open-source hardware Novena computer from 2014), which allows for flexible customization of the laptop through small modules called *Tiles*.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

"occur" mode in emacs is pretty good for keeping an automatic TODO list while working in a longer text

two buffers in emacs: rst-mode with olivetti-mode on the left where i'm writing a handbook; and occur mode on the right that has a clickable list of all occurrences of "TODO" left in my text

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

could also add a little bit of outlines (with freestyle)

same scene, but now there are subtle black outlines around the edges of objects

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

there was some weird color management stuff to be sorted out when exporting, now better

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

currently rendering some renders for the mnt reform next handbook :3

a rendered, partially opened up mnt reform next laptop hardware assembly. batteries are pink

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

i've been struggling a lot to make USB-C DisplayPort alt-mode work on the RK3588 MNT Pocket Reform with MB2.0, incl. charging and USB hub functions of the monitor, all over a single cable. this included partially reverse-engineering and implementing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

mnt pocket reform docked on my home desk to my 27 inch monitor, keyboard, mouse, and audio interface, all over a single usb-c connection

closeup of thunderbolt cable plugged into pocket reform (it's just acting as a usb-c cable here).

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

very curious mesa problem that's been haunting me for a while, and becomes very visible here: when i look at this file (reform next laptop assembly) in blender 5 on my qcs8550 mnt reform next (freedreno), using native OpenGL, most of the components have […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

a laptop assembly in blender, parts randomly shuffled about

same laptop, but better, things are where they should be

similar closeup as before, but now things are in the right places

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

omg the other bitfile shows something more serious, in the familiar topaz font!

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

trying ulx3s-minimig core (bitfiles from github) on my ulx3s, i get interesting glitchy video on hdmi. intuitively i'd say it's missing a rom, but not sure how to supply that. ideas?

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

did some more work on the MNT Vector mainboard today, and started routing the tracks. the smallest MNT Reform module compatible board i've worked on so far.

MNT Vector work-in-progress mainboard in KiCAD 3D viewer.

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

OK, our little computer/server/NAS is online at Crowd Supply: www.crowdsupply.com/mnt-research/mn… The main idea was to have a high-end enclosure for the classic MNT Reform mainboard to give it a second life, but you can as well build an open […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

a stack of 3 aluminum cases in silver, petrol, and black colorways. the lowest one has a MNT Reform laptop mainboard in it

the black MNT Reform station with 2 cute external wi-fi antennas and one of the 10 front panel LEDs glowing red

close-up of the front panel with one red LED glowing

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

and you would think that this works: right click on a file in Recent and use "Open Item Location". but that right click quietly replaces the save-as filename with the name of the file you right clicked! bizarre! (at least in signal, not sure if that's happening in all apps)

right clicking a file in Recent and selecting "Open Item Location", which is thwarted by a bug (?!)

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

finally trying out my glasgow (C3), connected it to the I2C port on a pocket mainboard and put the system controller (rp2040) in programming mode so it doesn't do anything. glasgow can then scan and find all the chips on the I2C bus on the board. not sure if […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

minute@minute-i9:~/src/glasgow$ glasgow run i2c-controller -V 3.3 scan
I: g.hardware.device: device already has bitstream ID 8cc68f414c4dcae5
I: g.hardware.assembly: port * voltage set to 3.3 V
I: g.cli: running handler for applet 'i2c-controller'
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b1000001/0x41
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b0100010/0x22
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b1010000/0x50
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b1010100/0x54
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b1011000/0x58
I: g.applet.interface.i2c_controller: scan found address 0b0011001/0x19

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

because you asked, some impressions from the first small batch of MNT Reform Next assembly

a bunch of open mnt reform next laptop shells (bottom half), with a few PCBs installed, and other components, screws, tools and gloves on a table

closeup of a box stacked with MNT Reform Next aluminum cases (bottom half, open) with port boards installed

tina the fuzzy black dog chilling on the concrete floor below the table

closeup of black aluminum case parts of MNT Reform Next, with installed USB ports, stacked in a box

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

ah, it's just that the attack is now much faster/bigger scale than before. i'm blocking almost 20 IPs per second, and some IP request multiple things in parallel so the script just tries to block them multiple times in a row

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

i thought the iptables rules might have been flushed, and readded them, but now i just have them twice, and the pkts counter is going up... hmm. any idea what's happening? (stopped the gitlab for now while thinking about this)

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

root caused the backlight flicker (above certain brightness level which i clamped in firmware) on some pocket reform display v2 panels: the seller of the panels made this flex adapter for us to make the pinout compatible with the display v1 (eol, made by jdi) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

microscope shot showing the adapter (a flex pcb) with a bypass wire i soldered on

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

while you're at it, it would also be good to move the 4 holes down a few mm so that there's a bit more clearance from the pcb edge to the vesa hole so a screw head or nut has a chance to fit there, approx like in my before/after pics here:

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

framegrabbing composite out of my amiga 1200 with my mnt pocket reform to debug things

pocket reform as a tiny monitor on top of the sizeable a1200

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

strange, i kinda forgot that i must have ported interim os to the amiga a long time ago, and i also obviously have self-cryptomnesia because my new system controller protocol stuff has a very similar discovery mechanism, just this time i called it (words) instead of (symbols). strange!

interim os "sledge" lisp prompt on amigaos, it seems like it's jitting to m68k machine code

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