Peace pipe or death sentence, either way, someone has a good time.

I thought exactly the same thing, as previously though, I was willing to swallow the $8 (at the time) in order to use my tablet for coding (may as well be a laptop running android tbh).

That’s fucked up, it was $8AUD when I got it like a year ago. Fuckin corpos and their price hikes.

I was happy to swallow it to code on the go, but I only used it for a few weeks. Sometimes I lay in bed to code though so I can watch TV as well (never mind all the errors I make as a result).

I’ve got a Lenovo P11, goes pretty well on a charge, and VSCode is available on android, haven’t used it much as I almost always code at home now.

I was going to say something along similar lines, once the borders are ordered shut, you’ll have a much harder time getting out of dodge, not impossible, but much, much harder.

Yep, assuming this new service lasts that long. Could be a year or less.

As someone who’s done shift work the overwhelming majority of their career, fatigue is worse than being drunk.

30hr sleep debt has you feeling horrible, struggling to focus, 40hr sleep debt has you acting drunk, feeling worse and bordering on dozing off.

I had a week long caffeine withdrawal once due to not realizing how hard I was leaning on caffeine to get through each day. Week off came around, stopped all the coffees and spent most of my week of sweating bullets, shaking and in pain. Never again.

I’m not sure this will help, though I’ll suggest anyway that you poke around looking for (I hope I got this right) “rkdevtool”, I believe you can get it from somewhere in the Orangepi tools, I found it while looking into putting orangepi os (droid) onto it.

Do let me know how you go, I have a copy if you can’t find it that I’m happy to share. I haven’t yet tried it so I can’t speak to whether or not it works.

I’m actually attempting to convert my windows install into a VM these past few days, it’s most of the way there now, just need to get the VM to actually boot from that drive.

It was my original intent upon switching to Linux that I would VM my windows, however only in the last few days of trying (read: failing) to get mods for a few games working under proton, that I’ve really upped my effort.

If there are any resources you recommend, I’m all ears.

It’s a ballache through and through. I am (cautiously) optimistic for the Orangepi 5’s future, Raxda and several others have release RK3588 powered SBCs, my hope is that through some level of market saturation and community development to prevail.

I do actually have an RPi4, it’s on full-time Kodi duty at present. I’ll have to pick up a few more SD cards to load up and mess with.

I bought the Orangepi first funnily enough, because it was the peak of the RPi shortage and I didn’t want to spend blood money on an aging SBC, I did pick the RPi up the moment stock was available though, no regrets, it’s been rock solid since first boot, and even easier to work with than the community attests to.

I love that little fucker to bits, I just wish it had the power of the Pi 5 (orange OR raspberry), as it drops a fair few frames during 4k directplay, 1080/1440p runs butter smooth though.

It’s a shame really, I’d be first in line to buy the Orangepi Neo (their incoming 7840U handheld) were it not for the piss poor experience I’ve had with the Pi. Now I’m firmly planted in the “wait and see, but probably not” camp.

I wasn’t aware Arch had builds available for arm, I will certainly give it a look-see.

Unfortunately the Orangepi 5 is somewhat shitty to hop around with, many builds either don’t support the RK3588 at all, or certain things just don’t work at all on most (I’m looking at you GPU acceleration).

On top of this, the SPI flash can be quite a pain to work with, due to orangepi doing the bare minimum to ship the product, I would really love to see dual-boot in future for it, though my expectations have been seriously tempered when it comes to orangepi.

The result of this, is that any distro I installed to the SSD removed boot priority from the SD slot, ergo, without formatting/overwriting the SPI flash, it will refuse to boot from SD, even with no SSD present. Some builds boot fine from having been directly flashed to the SSD, so far Batocera, Ubuntu and the J-Reik Rockchip Ubuntu have all booted flawlessly when directly flashed to the SSD, no luck with most others though.

I must admit though, that RK3588 is blazingly fast for how little power it draws. The hardware is top notch, I just wish the software weren’t lagging so far behind. If I remember rightly the incoming kernel should resolve many of these issues, I believe it’s still running 5.10 currently.

Apologies for the rant, during my writing of this reply I came across a repo on GitHub that someone’s been building for the Orangepi, I’ll give it a shot and hope for the best I guess! Seems to have rkbootloader paired with it, which might help dodge the bullet that the SPI flash can feel like at times.

This, I switched from win10 to Mint, the only issues I had with the transition were self-inflicted, or stemmed from me approaching it with a windows mindset rather than the mindset of learning a new OS.

I’ve settled in quite well now, and actively cringe when I’m forced to boot into my windows install for some reason or another.

I’ve been distro-hopping with my orangepi, however I can only do so much hopping on arm, I’m considering adding yet another drive to my rig with which to try out some other distros and see if I can find a better fit than (the already great fit) Linux Mint.

I would consider myself an intermediate-advanced user (not quite power user), do you think trying Arch is a good idea at this stage?

Ladles and jellyspoons of the fediverse, I have reason to suspect Linux may be afoot.

Ubuntu on an orangepi 5 when it released, now Linux Mint dual-booted to windows (haven’t booted into windows for ages now) on my main rig. I’ll figure out making VR work at some point I hope, it’s all I really use windows for now.

Take my angry upvote, you heathen.

I got lucky, I converted from the ol’ shitheap that reddit became at the time of the protests.

This was in the before-times when folks here were more excited about helping people see the FOSS light than they were complaining about people searching for the FOSS light (repeatedly).

I never needed to make a post of my own, there were a good few getting around and a LOT of helpful/insightful/educational comments with a derth of information and sources provided for further investigation.

Once again (as previously in this comment section), I vote megathread.

As someone who recently made the switch (without posting about it woohoo!), I’ve found more information across the clone posts than in any one thread, I second the megathread idea mentioned above.

I’ve made a few comments regarding distros/switching on many of the aforementioned posts and I would happily dig them up and repost them as a comment on a megathread, on the slim chance my experience helps smooth out the entry for others.

No, we should legislate (and then actually enforce that legislation).

I really don’t see any other way to reign in the unchecked capitalism at this point.

This comment is hinged entirely on the assumption that a(more like many) for-profit business won’t immediately make it a money printer to make line go up, sure the tech may be amazing and huge for accessibility but I see it getting almost immediately milked like most other new technologies.