and I've tried out a good number of other SBCs. Nothing really seems to have long-term support and reliability...?

OrangePi hardware has nice form factor and functionality, paired with hazardous reliability and community-only OS support.

against my better judgment I built something around a Pine64 Rock64 recently--and it turns out that it's just a well-known and accepted defect that when it's hitting RAM hard, the HDMI output glitches? reminds me of racing the beam. https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/ROCK64#Video_output_is_glitchy_during_activity

to spell out my criteria as an artist who is SBC shopping--I need:

- A SBC with some standard I/O interfaces (eg i2c, usb, spi).

- Part of a standardized model line

- A future person trying to resurrect my dead artwork can google the things written on it and download a working OS image

- No yocto or buildroot

- Mainline kernel

- Lots of visual tutorials that refer to it by name

- Can boot (temporarily?) from a "normal person" storage device (SD, USB)

- No fine-pitch connectors required

@combs Have you taken a look at any of the offerings from @olimex? Your biggest advantage there is that they're open hardware: if at some point in the future a particular model gets discontinued, there's nothing (bar the expense) from stopping someone doing another production run so long as the core components remain available.

Doesn't tick all of the boxes (not many visual tutorials around), but could be worth a look.

One example: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/iMX233/iMX233-OLinuXino-MINI/open-source-hardware