5 hours with LiFePo4 and 8 hours with Li-ion since the battery system in the Reform Next should support both chemistries you can choose battery longevity or longer runtime and more frequent battery replacements.
The MNT Reform classic discussed here was designed 6 years ago, but there’s nothing preventing an updated motherboard with better port selection from being created.
The MNT Reform Next that’s scheduled to be fulfilled this year has a much more modern port layout:
They have a CM4 adapter module so maybe you could get a RISC-V module in there some how but I don’t know if anybody has actually done that or if it would be worth it at this point.
The keyboard uses low profile choc v1 mechanical switches. Aside from the split space bar this is about as close to a no compromise, standard layout as you can get I think.
MNT publishes everything: source code, schematics, complete BOMs, mechanical design files. You could produce one of their laptops, or any part of it, yourself through normal PCB suppliers like JLC and 3d print a case.
Reproducing what they have aside, you can also modify any aspect of it by remixing their designs. The most common example of this has been custom keyboard layouts (ergo, split, etc).
I read this as "never buy new electronics because someones old used one is less e-waste".
The motherboard is modular and the compute part of this is replaceable, it's sort of the whole point.
The modules are mostly compatible between all of their products: MNT Reform, MNT Pocket Reform that are available now and the future MNT Reform Next (a more streamlined laptop) and the MNT Station (mini desktop pc).
Onsen (hot springs) are very common and popular in Japan. Nowadays, they almost always have sauna as well. In Tokyo there's probably a sauna within ~15 minutes of just about anywhere.
Ahh I see. I guess I was mistaken about the title, which suggests building a real ISP for friends & family, rather than just a simulated ISP within a local network.
If it was just a simple matter of "what was available" these lenses would be an interesting footnote in Photography history. But that's not the case, people still buy them for their unique properties 50 years later and the fact a company exists to re-house them more than proves their legendary status in my mind.
There is a phenomenon I observe with people being fascinated by russian/soviet things even when in reality the subject of interest is pure shit.
Being it either a low quality lenses in which people see a artistic quality of manufacturing defects or text from Dostoevsky which ruminates in extended length the inner thought process of a moronic character which some mistake for a mysterious russian soul.
I own Helios lenses with Zenit camera I inherited from my father which is of the sentimental value as it was a first significant purchase after my parents wedding, and most of my childhood photos are done with it, but even my dad will trade it for a good Nikon lenses without a second thought.
The swirly effect is certainly unique, though I always considered it a bug as it's not even, some parts look oversharpened, some diffused. Like some weird algorithmic filter in Photoshop.
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