chylat

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   by chylat 4y ago

   I don't feel let down by Pine64. Pine64 produces affordable hardware that's easily hackable, and with more open schematics than most. Pine64 fund a great community manager to collate and collaborate with the community. Without Pin
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   by chylat 4y ago

   +1. Installing another OS is trivial. Having Tow-Boot on SPI makes it slightly easier, and flashing Tow-Boot to the SPI is easy. I don't understand how this minor issue has magnified to such drama. I'm concerned this drama will ma
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   by chylat 4y ago

   I found logs. For context, tl_lim is the founder of Pine64. 2022-06-01, the Pine64 dev IRC chat: > [T] <tl_lim> I pause on move forward due to no one commit to maintain. If MayueIC interest to maintain, lets move forward and includ
4. 4.▲
   by chylat 4y ago

   > Would you rather find, download, and flash a special-purpose, pinebook-specific image onto a microSD card, pop it in, and boot that up to install a distribution, or would you rather it supports a standard UEFI booting interface over US
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   by chylat 4y ago

   +1. Pine64 has listened to feedback, and made attempts to get Tow-Boot flashed on the PineBook Pro. It just didn't fit Pine64's manufacturing timeline. Does any other manufacturer do better in this regard?
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   by chylat 4y ago

   Disclaimer: I was in the Pine64 IRC channels at the time, so have some limited visibility, but not all visibility. Pine64 was looking for somebody to commit to maintain PineBook Pro support in Tow-Boot (a relatively new project) I don'