why publish just silkscreen layers??? what's the point in that??

this design is from 2019-09-05 *surely* they would've had time to publish shit by now

literally the only board files linked on the wiki page are **jpeg** screenshots of gerbers for the irrelevant USB to eMMC converter..

what if pine64 but open hardware <futuristic city.jpeg>

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the state of open hardware stuff is real fuckin sad in general tbqh, you can call your shit that even with just gerbers+schema, you can keep your actually usable design source fully private and/or in proprietary $112489138 garbageware

tbh i hope someone proves me wrong on this thread but i kinda doubt it,,,

that flat-flex (friday :thounking:) cable doesn't look happy at all either

lol they removed the "PINE64 is an open source platform from both hardware to software"
because it just isn't

ok im closing all my pine64/pinebookpro related tabs because this is not gonna get anywhere

i was angry about the pine64 thing again but Olimex is actually really cool, they make a laptop too and actually publish *everything* as KiCad project files; ie github.com/OLIMEX/DIY-LAPTOP/t

@linear also hm interesting, misskey does mentions wrong, appearing as social.pixie.town instead of pixie.town (webfinger redirect)

@ella yeah it sucks tbh, because they still have a lot of good rep because of it...

@f0x how to business:
1. have an attractive goal that is also unreachable among other good features
2. get good rep
3. abandon the unreachable goal silently
4. profit

@f0x god damn, that's disappointing.
don't get me wrong, stuff like my pinephone's still been great to use, but knowing that the platform is a decent bit more closed than they let on is definitely concerning >_<

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