| bencoh | norly: you could try looking for a 'broken' n900 and swap the digitizer | 10:51 |
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| tk | can recommend the above | 11:01 |
| norly | thanks! | 15:12 |
| joerg | digitizers are N900-specific and most likely not available anymore. You could get away with connecting a mouse instead | 17:32 |
| joerg | then, I seem to have a few spare digitizers here. Query me | 17:37 |
| sixwheeledbeast | You may find one if you search about. Alternatively another N900 with a dead modem maybe suitable donor. | 17:41 |
| sixwheeledbeast | I would just replace the whole display module of a donor in that case. Other devices are probably more suitable for leste. best to ask over on #maemo-leste for leste related info. | 17:45 |
| norly | ok, time to join #maemo-leste then | 18:02 |
| norly | joerg, thanks. i've found a digitizer replacement - let's see whether i got lucky and it's the real thing. if not, i may ask you if the need arises. | 18:03 |
| joerg | yw | 18:03 |
| joerg | any time | 18:03 |
| norly | it's sad that this channel has quieted down this much, but life happens sometimes. once more, thanks for everything you've done for the n900 and the neo900 project. | 18:04 |
| joerg | was a pleasure as far as it was about community. Not so much when it came to authorities and institutions/banks etc | 18:06 |
| norly | oh yes i can very well understand that | 18:07 |
| norly | though i wasn't aware of such kind of issues up to now. is there a writeup about it somewhere? | 18:08 |
| norly | maybe a TMO post or something? | 18:09 |
| joerg | except for the paypal stuff, I didn't dump those annoying boring details to community | 18:10 |
| norly | ah ok. then i didn't actually miss anything public. thanks. | 18:11 |
| joerg | tax is tax, nobody wants to deal with it more than absolutely necessary, unless you're one of those strange individuals that do that for making a living ;-) | 18:11 |
| norly | my reason for asking was that i was looking to make and sell a much (!) simpler product, and many decisions were driven by "oh, let's not include a radio because it's pain", etc. | 18:12 |
| norly | and even just a whiff of this made me appreciate the neo900 work so much more than ever before | 18:12 |
| joerg | those were minor isuues I had no problems with | 18:13 |
| norly | yeah, taxes. no fun :( | 18:13 |
| joerg | steer clear of VAT in context of international trade, if you're interested to keep your sanity | 18:13 |
| norly | yes, indeed! that's the thing i most bumped into when researching | 18:14 |
| joerg | and that's the "funy" half of that topic | 18:14 |
| joerg | funny even | 18:14 |
| joerg | the nasty half might only apply if you're located in Germany | 18:15 |
| joerg | any reasonablyrun and funded company had moved their headquaters to Taiwan or the like | 18:16 |
| norly | agreed | 18:18 |
| norly | is that just germany, or all of EU? | 18:18 |
| bencoh | unless you're only dealing with EU customers I guess | 18:18 |
| bencoh | because in that case you actually want to stay in EU | 18:19 |
| norly | how about an EU company for EU clients, and a non-EU company for non-EU clients? | 18:19 |
| bencoh | that might be what most do | 18:19 |
| bencoh | (big companies I mean) | 18:20 |
| norly | ah yeah right, thinking about it they usually have representative branches/subsidiaries in major areas | 18:20 |
| norly | ok, putting the not so fun topics aside - is there any future for the work you've done for neo900, or even STEP2? publication, or even continuation, maybe by someone else? | 18:21 |
| joerg | not on my side, no. The design is obsolete by now, and I don't plan to push this any further. The concepts behind it are alive and true, and I'd love a new job helping to make them get implemented | 18:34 |
| joerg | I won't start a new project on my own. I can't do that a second time, burnout strikes | 18:35 |
| norly | joerg, yeah i understand very well. please take care, thanks for all you've done, and enjoy your neo life :) | 18:44 |
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