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Even the Pi Zero uses an order of magnitude more power than you want in a watch. A Pi tablet would be a very fun toy. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t somethi

Even the Pi Zero uses an order of magnitude more power than you want in a watch. A Pi tablet would be a very fun toy. I’d be surprised if there wasn’t something available for that now but may be bulky.

Waterluvian 6y ago
Good point about the watch!
bluGill 6y ago
The pine tab is a table available from the same site. I'm looking at it, but it isn't ready for someone with my limited hacking time - yet (I expect this to change in a few months)
- Waterluvian 6y ago
  I've got my eye on that one if it returns to stock. Thanks! A slightly alarming statement on the page: "Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect." I've bought dozens of screens in my life (phones tablets monitors TV's) and have never had a stuck pixel. Is it actually normal?
  - wongarsu 6y ago
    That depends on where you buy. If you buy a Dell UltraSharp you can expect that there will be no dead pixels. But that's not because Dell has technology that completely prevents them, it's because Dell has good QC. If you buy a cheap screen from a manufacturer that does less QC you might seldomly have stuck pixels. And of course there are the bottom-of-the-barrel suppliers that buy whatever other suppliers discard because of QC defects. There's always someone who will buy a screen with a couple dead pixels if it's half the price. I don't know where pine falls, I would guess they buy straight from the factory without extensive QC and might seldomly have stuck pixels.
  - detaro 6y ago
    Yes. It's luckily rare-ish to actually happen nowadays, and expectations have become stricter, but many vendors do have policies that state that some amount of pixel defects are tolerable, this is not out of the ordinary. Although they do typically distinguish between pixels that stay lit and pixels that are dead, the former being more annoying and thus less acceptable. E.g. a policy might say that a screen of size X can have max 4 dark pixels and only 1 permanently lit that's somewhere at the edge of the screen, and no lit ones in the center.
  - rjsw 6y ago
    Only a sample of one but my PineBook had no dead pixels.

Waterluvian 6y ago

Good point about the watch!

bluGill 6y ago

The pine tab is a table available from the same site. I'm looking at it, but it isn't ready for someone with my limited hacking time - yet (I expect this to change in a few months)

Waterluvian 6y ago
I've got my eye on that one if it returns to stock. Thanks! A slightly alarming statement on the page: "Small numbers (1-3) of stuck or dead pixels are a characteristic of LCD screens. These are normal and should not be considered a defect." I've bought dozens of screens in my life (phones tablets monitors TV's) and have never had a stuck pixel. Is it actually normal?
- wongarsu 6y ago
  That depends on where you buy. If you buy a Dell UltraSharp you can expect that there will be no dead pixels. But that's not because Dell has technology that completely prevents them, it's because Dell has good QC. If you buy a cheap screen from a manufacturer that does less QC you might seldomly have stuck pixels. And of course there are the bottom-of-the-barrel suppliers that buy whatever other suppliers discard because of QC defects. There's always someone who will buy a screen with a couple dead pixels if it's half the price. I don't know where pine falls, I would guess they buy straight from the factory without extensive QC and might seldomly have stuck pixels.
- detaro 6y ago
  Yes. It's luckily rare-ish to actually happen nowadays, and expectations have become stricter, but many vendors do have policies that state that some amount of pixel defects are tolerable, this is not out of the ordinary. Although they do typically distinguish between pixels that stay lit and pixels that are dead, the former being more annoying and thus less acceptable. E.g. a policy might say that a screen of size X can have max 4 dark pixels and only 1 permanently lit that's somewhere at the edge of the screen, and no lit ones in the center.
- rjsw 6y ago
  Only a sample of one but my PineBook had no dead pixels.