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Do people ever do unboxing threads? I got me a new #riscv laptop from DeepComputing.
A cardboard box on top of a wooden desk. The front face of the box reads "DC-ROMA", and the side reads "Turning RISC-V into Reality".
Looks like maybe the packaging was undone during customs, since the laptop was replaced upside-down.🤷‍♀️

Nice Thank You card inside.

I haven't had an aluminum cased laptop before. It feels really nice.
A thin laptop with DeepComputing logo resting on its box. There's a small slip of paper with a Thank You note.
I hadn't noticed the headphone jack when ordering. I'm glad it's there; Bluetooth stuff gets to be too much sometimes, it's nice to be able to just plug in some headphones.

There are some "debugging" connectors on the right-hand side. I'm curious what I'll be able to use those for.

I'd say there's maybe some slight misalignment between the connectors and the case, maybe?
A view of the left hand side of the laptop showing USB 3.0, 3.5mm headphone, USB C charging and general, and TF card ports.
A view of the laptop's right hand side showing a USB 3.0 and 8-pin debugging interface.
Unfold the thing, hold the power button for a second, and it boots up to an Ubuntu 23.10 setup wizard (about 50 seconds).

I probably won't share details of this process unless I see anything unique.
DC-ROMA laptop opened up showing and Ubuntu setup wizard.
While updates download, a few details about this machine. The CPU is a SpacemiT K1, which appears to also be equivalent to X60x8. This is an RV64 application processor. It also supports the Vector extension with VLEN=256 (2x128b) and an unratified IME extension for low-precision and integer matrix computations. It has a PowerVR graphics processor that supports accelerated video decode and encode.
Potato picture of Ubuntu's About details showing 15.5GiB memory, Spacemit X60x8 processor, PowerVr B-Series BXE-2-32 graphics, 1.0TB disk capacity.
Lol, updates finished and I get a dialogue saying, "Software updates are no longer provided for Ubuntu 23.10." I'll have to see if anyone's tested an update to 24.04.1 LTS on this machine.

I fully plan to install #guix on here ASAP.
#guix
Oh no, for some reason the filesystem has only 6.5GB available, even though it's a 1TB NVME. That's silly, and definitely not user-friendly. Oops, checking out git clone got me an ENOSPC. And, oh Lord, the "Support" link redirects to GitHub. Hopefully can figure this out quick.