@deliri Either way, @bananapi illustrates the problem with (halfassed) #RaspberryPi competitiors:

• It's not enough to just spit out an SBC and some bootable ROM! The people want proper #documentation. And besides @raspberry_pi / #RaspberryPi, very few actually write those (i.e. @olimex )…

Cuz if people like #ChrisBarnatt struggle to do anything, why should anyone even more competent like @geerlingguy invest his precious time to make fundamental basics work?

• I mean as much as he jokes about having to compile the #LinuxKernel, I'm pretty shure $5 in hardware cost savings isn't going to get him up and fanboy things.

Personally, I think everytime he has to fiddle around that neck-deep, I consider this a fundamental failure by said SBC if not #ARM64 as #architecture, as in almost all cases this is something that just works on #amd64!

• Espechally since these are "consumer-facing" boards with "consumer-style interfaces" and advertised to consumers, not some obscure embedded/industrial SOM like a #Vortex86!

@mntmn oh cool.

• Send them my regards...

Given how #Framework has put me off with their sponsorships and how the continued #Enshittification of #ThinkPad|s (and me not stomaching the cost of a #3Dprinter for the #NUCbook) m, I do have the privilegue of my daily driver tools being not hard-locked to #amd64 and thus being able to switch architectures…

• Something that seems potentially necessary as #Intel and #AMD refuse to stop #enshittifying!

https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115820236642306383

@Oleksii @robinsyl #ARM64 grows because #Intel and #AMD basically gave up delivering compareable computing power in the same thermal, electrical and price envelope.

• See Z3735F (2,2W), N3010 (3W) & x5-E8000 (4W) having no successors of equally low TDP or even lower in production! The closest ist the i3-N300 (7W) and N95 (15W) respectably.

Add to it the rise of #SBCs like #RaspberryPi that further kicked the cost down in terms of basic computing and the big #Linux #community that welcomes cheap #hardware and does it's best to put it to good use.

• See the #MNTreform by @mntmn, which embraces #ComputeModules and doesn't have any #amd64 #mainboard (or rather #SOM) option AFAIK...

It truly confirms @landley 's saying that #Innovation in Computing it actually trickling up and thus #tech gets moved from the #Desk to the #Rack to "the #Cloud"...

• I mean, in many #DevelopingCountries the #Desktop and #Laptops get skipped for very cheap #Smartphones and cheaper #Tablets to the point that regular #PC's ain't common outside of businesses and government offices...

Obviously, I wished for truly #OpenSource'd #RISCv to take the place but that's about 5-25 years lagging behind #ARM due to #patents in many key technologies like #PowerSaving...

• But we've to admit that on a global scale, #Flathub is a #RoundingError in terms of #SoftwareDistribution, because not every Desktop - Linux distro supports it, much less uses it per default!

@robinsyl I am convinced that #Valve is gonna try to seriously support #ARM & #Linux longterm because they don't want to depend upon #amd64 / #ix86 & #Windows for survival and profit.

• I'm shure the same engineers who cooked up the #SteamFrame work hard on supporting mainstream ARM devices like the #Pi500Plus, because the more platforms #Steam can serve a decent amount of their catalog the easier it is for them to make money.

And in the end that's what they care about...

• Tho I don't put my hopes up high re: any new devices and espechally not reasonable pricing, cuz the "#AIbubble" and the #PriceFixing tripol of #RAM [Chip] manufacturers are currently busy #scalping RAM & #Flash into unobtainable amounts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hLiwNViMak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A-eeJP0J7c

When the #SteamMachine was announced everyone with a calculator could see this is ginna be a $/€ 749,-- #GabeCube because unlike any #GameConsole they explicitly refuse to go with the "Razer & Blades- Model" and sell the device at a loss.

• At the current prediction and RAM prices everyone not deranged expects this to be a $/€ 999,99 box if Valve preordered enough RAM to have an inventory cushion at launch.

And with the current price developments I'd not be surprised if sooner or later devices get stolen just to rip the RAM & SSD out of them and distribute them second hand like weed to a coffeeshop in Amsterdam.