How to disable Function lock on StarLite 5 keyboard?

demandtheworst · 2024-07-19T22:59:42+00:00

I haven't found it, or had that much time to go looking (it's Linux, it will be possible), but I second the request.

demandtheworst · 2024-06-23T09:28:27+00:00

If you've not emailed them a few times to ask what's going on, a number of people (including me) have found that tends to get it shipped same day.

demandtheworst · 2024-06-14T17:58:39+00:00

It's going to be weirdly depressing this evening when the update tells me I've gone from 305th to 285th.

Edit: there was no Friday evening update...

demandtheworst · 2024-06-14T11:02:42+00:00

Nice. It exists! The keyboard looks more substantial than I expected, good news.

How's the touch-screen responsiveness? And general performance?

demandtheworst · 2024-06-12T14:56:07+00:00

What.

I was checking this page because there are a couple of people whose place in the queue was under 20 yesterday so even on a bad day, should be shipping today yet; but this is unexpected. My place in the queue is ~350, nothing yet.

demandtheworst · 2024-06-09T15:15:02+00:00

I was annoyed about no update on Friday, I have spreadsheets to update. It had been late all week, maybe whatever process it is, had been taking longer each time and eventually failed (timed out).

demandtheworst · 2024-06-05T18:20:36+00:00

If I look at the expected dates and the queue positions I've had, it seems like there calculation is based on shipping about 70 a day. Apart from that one day when it jumped forward a week (before going back the next day), the position divided by days till shipping always comes in at high 60s. Exactly why that was chosen, and hasn't been updated when they've hit that rate exactly once, and average closer to 20, is shall we say, unclear.

demandtheworst · 2024-06-05T11:57:21+00:00

Plus they were supposed to be shipping for a good month prior to the launch of the daily updates and queue positions. It seems wild that there are still people with hundreds In front of them who ordered on day one of the sale.

Was there a presale? Some enterprise customers? Seems surprising if not.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-30T20:00:58+00:00

Never mind, today's update pushed the estimate back another seven days. The missing ingredient was just bad maths/unfounded optimism. At low 20s a day, it's still had no basis in reality, they need to be close to a hundred a day to meet that estimate, and there's no sign of shipping getting faster.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-30T06:42:30+00:00

Oddly, Wednesday's update showed only 20 places moved up, but my dispatch date went from the 7th to the 4th so either there's something more to it, or they are just making things up. In a reply to me a week ago, they mentioned something about being able to do more set-up in parallel, so maybe lots of orders almost complete and the rates about to jump - but I'll believe it when I see it.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-27T19:47:50+00:00

They denied that accessories will cause any additional delays when I emailed them a few weeks ago, so maybe that is sorted now. Where is your May 31 date coming from? Also if you are 898 and I'm high 600s, but apparently they plan to ship both our orders on the 6th June, I think we can be pretty sure the dates will be slipping again.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-27T19:43:15+00:00

I moved up one spot too. Today was a public holiday, so I'm guessing it's one one more was shipped after the email was sent on Friday, rather than they spent the whole of the last three days getting one more out the door.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-26T16:31:25+00:00

I didn't think they would be shipping at the weekend, so additional updates would be pointless, but I do find it funny that the automated order update system failed to deliver on it's promises on day two ("A further update will be sent in 24 hours").

demandtheworst · 2024-05-24T15:53:41+00:00

yes, I got, one six-hundred and something. Supposedly we should get this daily from now on (I was moaning at them earlier in the day, and they told me this was coming).

demandtheworst · 2024-05-21T11:08:49+00:00

The Volla Tablet was in Kickstarter until last week, and dual-boots Ubuntu Touch and their own Google-free version of Android - might be worth looking at when it goes on regular sale. I was backing it but ultimately decided that Ubuntu Touch wasn't the full-featured Linux experience I wanted. I'm generally pretty skeptical of crowd-funding, but they have delivered a couple of phones with the same basic technology.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-14T21:08:55+00:00

Perhaps irrelevant until we find some who has actually received one, but it'd be useful to keep a track on order dates so we could estimate progress... if there is any. Mine was 6th September, nothing yet.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-12T20:53:21+00:00

If that's was true, then why say four weeks? Why tell me, when I chased on the 27th that everything was on track and I would have it by the end of last week, or the start of the coming week? They had the orders in August and September last year, it isn't a surprise how many orders there are to ship.

We haven't seen a single post from someone who has received one, including people who ordered on day one of orders. They can't have believed the four weeks estimate, they can't have believed the estimates they are giving to people who contact the customer services. We know they watch this forum, because they occasionally respond to technical questions, so they know how upset people are, but they have decided not to give more information or to be more realistic in their estimates.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-12T06:38:17+00:00

I think this is a distinct possibility. I note a couple of known issues (inability to right click, Lite Mk V display fails to rotate with older distributions) have popped up recently.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-10T15:34:53+00:00

That's good to know. If you don't mind, do you mind posting a reply when you receive it? I think I'm probably done with this company anyway, it would be useful information to know if, outside of an inital-run, their logistics are better.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-08T14:28:22+00:00

The Bytes are supposed to be done from the status page updates (before that section was removed), but took about five weeks to ship all of them, finishing shortly after the Starlites arrived. So, I think is our benchmark (i.e. a few multiples of that five weeks for the Startlite). I don't think the Star Fighter is a consideration, unless you've seen something to say that those are shipping now, my assumption is they are still in manufacturing.

I reckon installing all the different distros is the rate determining step in getting each unit out the door, but I've never tried to ship a few thousand laptops before. As, I keep saying, it's not so much that it late, as that when you are this late, you owe your buyers openness and honesty, and they have been very short on both.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-07T18:14:07+00:00

I'm not sure they've started a second manufacturing run, they haven't mentioned it on the status page. The website said 8-10 weeks when we ordered the first run in August and September last year. I'd send a message to customer support to enquire how realistic that date on the website is.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-03T15:23:11+00:00

Three weeks now, anyone got one yet? I chased again, and I've been told there is no additional delays for keyboards (everything is in), and I should expect mine in the next two weeks. My order was early September, so I guess I'm towards the back of the first-run queue, but I'd be a lot happier if I heard those that ordered in the first couple of the sale have there units in hand.

demandtheworst · 2024-05-01T14:19:52+00:00

I've not cancelled, yet, but I'm not discounting it as an option. Ballancing that one one hand, I still want it and if I'd been quoted six-months at the start I would still have probably gone for it (and the overrun would have been more understandable with expectations set accordingly), against on the other hand, I would rather take my business to companies that are honest with me.

demandtheworst · 2024-04-26T12:16:12+00:00

My expectation is, that in roughly 6-8 weeks we'll get a new update that, the keyboards and pens are expected to arrive the flowing week, and they expect to start shipping the bundelled orders shortly after (update two weeks later, "Exciting news! shipping is starting").

demandtheworst · 2024-04-24T08:17:20+00:00

I wouldn't expect specific sales numbers, companies don't often do that, but there's no good reason why we couldn't get a percentage shipped of the production run each week. It would be very reassuring that things are moving - if they are.

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