And trying restore a lot, don’t be like me!

Extract Transform Loaf

Oopsie, let’s correct that and pretend it didn’t happen.

ln -s /dev/null /dev/theresnodanaonlynull

The main two reasons for people not using linux are:

• I don’t have willpower/time to learn it.
• I’m afraid I can’t find my favorite software alternative.

And while we can all agree that Gimp/Krita/RawTherapee are decent alternatives to Adobe’s suite, you would have to relearn everything you’ve been doing for the last x years.

Switch Adobe for AutoCAD or any other proprietary tools.

My only suggestion for anyone in those situations is setting up the tools in a VM, but that’s a lot of work figuring out how, and it will be sluggish and power-intensive.

I have this one! Probably at my folks’ place, definitely I’ll put it behind my chair so people can see it during video calls.

But why use many word when few do trick?

Or open source projects…

I’m glad they do. This is going to generate so much work opportunities to undo their messes.

Iirc Suse used to give away previous versions to highschools, so probably yours was running Yast with a lot of software included.

Python sci devs sweating bullets looking at this.

Everyone knows that transwomen prefer Rust due to its borrow checker which ensures memory safety without the overhead of garbage collection.

Let me check dmesg:

amdgpu 0000:03:00.0: amdgpu: failed to write reg 291c wait reg 292e

or

[46531.357889] amdgpu 0000:c5:00.0: [drm] ERROR lttpr_caps phy_repeater_cnt is 0xff, forcing it to 0x80.

Let me know if more examples are needed ;)

I gave a bit of a heads-up on a different thread, but the TLDR is that I use usb for the main disk and there’s an issue with usb in the latest uboot for rk3328. I tried flashing the SPI to an early version but as soon as I would update a kernel to LTS, I would start having problems.

To be honest, I feel that this is a solvable issue, but also that I’m done trying to make these cards work on my own. (I wasted a lot of time and money fixing the eemc modules and the sockets).

At this point I reached a conclusion that I would use my selfhosting time to focus on software and networks, and just use reliable hardware, even if it means doing less and paying more, and leave soldering for my diy projects.

That said, the Rock64 pro sbcs I have are still going strong despite being used non-stop for the last 5-6 years.

Rock64s had several issues with emmc slots, however one way I had to circumvent it was flashing the SPI allowing me to boot from usb, following the official guide: https://github.com/ayufan-rock64/linux-build/blob/master/recipes/flash-spi.md

The issue here is that with the recent updates on u-boot, some older models have issues with old u-boot systems, and while I can flash again to the previous working SPI and u-boot, I can’t make it work with the latest lts kernel.

Could it be solved? Sure, if I invest time solving the issue and compiling my own kernel version, I guess.

Is it worth it? My time is more limited than my money. I’ll rather some cash on three rpi5 or similar, than wasting more time on a set of cards that have been failing on several things for the past five years. (lattepandas and rock 64 pro had no issue during the same amount of time)

At the end of the day, I like selfhosting services but I also like having free time :)

Thanks, that is one of my biggest concerns. Rpi5 is on my radar, despite the supply situation that often plagues rpies

I can’t read no, I can’t read my butterface~

Where did I come from?

Thank you Ollama.

It was the best of OS, it was the worst of OS.