Jeff Geerling on Nostr: If anyone asks why I prefer to work with Raspberry Pis when I want to tinker on a ...
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!
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!