In the fourth episode of PineTalk, Ezra and Peter discuss some industry and community news, go through your favourite answers to their question and answer a few of your questions, some of them (spoiler!) GPU related.

What have we been up to lately?

• Ezra: Has been contemplating new videos that will appear on his YouTube and Odysee channels or his website: elatronion.com.
• Peter created a video about Sailfish OS 4.0.1.48, which you can find on YouTube, PeerTube and Odysee.

(Community) News

Matrix video calling on the PinePhone

• LinuxSmartphones: Now you can make video calls on a PinePhone (but it’s very much a work in progress)
  • Original story: Pinephone: Breakthrou on Fedora Pinephones

MIPS joins RISC-V

• EEjournal.com: Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V
  • Related Hacker News thread
  • Wikipedia: MIPS architecture
  • Wikipedia: Loongson

Connecting PineCone to a LoRaWAN transceiver

• LEE Lup Yuen: Connect PineCone to LoRaWan transceiver
  • Wikipedia: LoRaWAN

Community engagement 😀

A question for the Community

We asked on Twitter: What device would you like to see @thepine64 make?

What device would you like to see @thepine64 make?

— PineTalkPodcast (@TalkPine) March 7, 2021

and many of you answered. Thank you!

Community Questions for us

• Will you guys ever talk about the PineTime?
• Just listened to the intro and was wondering if you are going to talk about the Pinebook Pro and various operating system such as twister is?

• Has the RISCV SBC an open source GPU?
  • CNX-software story about the Xuan Tie C906

• Would it be practical for Pine64 to make a FOSS GPU for the desktop, or a higher power GPU for your next laptop?
  • Embedded.com: Open source GPU builds on RISC-V
    • LibreSoC: Well, kind of … a dedicated GPU is not our main scope

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