Re:My Unholy Battle with a Rock64
by confident_inept on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @03:57PM
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All of the Pine64 stuff is like this and it's detestable.
I had a RockPro64 for a while that I had tons of trouble getting to work for almost these exact reasons (largely thanks to uboot). Got rid of my Pinebook Pro for similar reasons.
Pine64 makes tons of interesting devices then relies almost 100% on unpaid post-consumer-hobbyist interest for any usability outside of a hacked together barebones ecosystem. Even their unique PineTime, which has been out for some time, is at a barely functioning level and I have zero hope for the PineNote at this point.
I really wish they cared about more than spinning out flashy hardware and patting themselves on the back.
Re:My Unholy Battle with a Rock64
by stryan on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @04:09PM
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Isn't that the point of the org though? They spin out cheap hacker-friendly ARM hardware at cost for interested hobbyists and that's about it. They're very clear[0] that they don't necessarily provide software outside of the bare basics for it.
I had a RockPro64 for a while that I had tons of trouble getting to work for almost these exact reasons (largely thanks to uboot). Got rid of my Pinebook Pro for similar reasons.
Pine64 makes tons of interesting devices then relies almost 100% on unpaid post-consumer-hobbyist interest for any usability outside of a hacked together barebones ecosystem. Even their unique PineTime, which has been out for some time, is at a barely functioning level and I have zero hope for the PineNote at this point.
I really wish they cared about more than spinning out flashy hardware and patting themselves on the back.