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I think there's a reasonable expectation that if you're buying a product, it actually works, enthusiast or not. It seems Pinebook are using that as an excuse t
by groffee 4y ago
I think there's a reasonable expectation that if you're buying a product, it actually works, enthusiast or not.
It seems Pinebook are using that as an excuse to ship low quality untested bricks.
Complaining about your dead pixels? You're obviously not a real enthusiast!
A real enthusiast would relish the fact that the unit is bricked after updating!
- ggm 4y agoI bought a kickstarter device (monument2) and it's way more buggy than I expected and I do feel dissatisfied with how it eventuated, but viewed from another perspective that was basically the deal day #1 and I just didn't understand it. Pine64 has a "danger/warning" all over it. If you buy things which come with DIP switches they aren't there for decoration. At the volumes made, and design cost, it's almost inevitable they will have a higher failure rate than Lenovo or Dell. Not designing the uBoot update path to be fail-safe is pretty bad. But, if the cost is "use the DIP switches" maybe the problem is not being warned at the time?