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Jeff Geerling Nov 8, 2024

If anyone asks why I prefer to work with Raspberry Pis when I want to tinker on a random project, consider:

I just spent the past hour with a brand new ArmSoM Sige7 board. This has been on the market for months, with some glowing reviews...

And it took about 30 minutes before I could get it to boot (20 to find an image that would flash properly and at least *start* booting). Then 20 to try getting logged in. And the last 10 trying to set up a forum account to ask for the default user/pass!

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Jeff Geerling Nov 8, 2024

More: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/56

This is not an isolated incident. So many times I hop on board a new SBC board train, and end up spending more time just getting to the point I can start doing a project... than actually doing a project 🤦‍♂️

The hardware looks cool, though. Hopefully I can get logged in next week!

ArmSoM Sige7 / Banana Pi BPI-M7 · Issue #56 · geerlingguy/sbc-reviews

Basic information Board URL (official): https://www.armsom.org/sige7 (or https://banana-pi.org/en/banana-pi-sbcs/169.html) Board purchased from: Provided by ArmSoM/BPI Board purchase date: November...

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Ondrej Moravek

@geerlingguy This is tangential but when I see these disk images being shared like that I always wonder what software could be hidden inside. Having these Google Drive links in official docs doesn't look very trustworthy to me.