Virtual Insanity

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  • Have had this issue myself asking with other DD card related issues.

    I can’t understand why the pi foundation persist with using SD as the only physically practical storage option.

    They’re looking post the point of needing a way to snap on reliable EMMC storage, as a default, in a way that doesn’t leave a cable or something permanently plugged into a USB port.

    Sure, USB is a fine option, but I hate that it’s only an option and not a designed default.

    Most of us only need 8GB or so for the OS, 8GB or good quality durable EMMC should hardly cost anything.

    Other tiny computers and even economy notebooks and Chromebooks already use this.











  • I’m no bash wizard, but I grew up with computers through the 80’s and am comfortable with using a cli, doesn’t bother me at all.

    My OP got messed up with the Lemmy app I’m using and thus a large chunk went missing.

    I’m actually using Raspian on a raspberry pi, and I don’t think there is a binary for armhf available through the more typical means.

    For everything else I just apt-get install xxx.

    I’ll revisit later.

    I appreciate the effort in your post.



  • Virtual Insanity @lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux users when
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    10 months ago

    Great, you can accomplish the bare essentials with Linux.

    Now how do I install a program called chirp for programming 2 way radios?

    Searched for a week and gave up as each set of instructions lead down a broken, redundant dependency rabbit hole with no solution in sight, Flatpack this, snap that, no explanation or even a searchable clue that could begin me a solution.

    In windows I just unzip the nightly build to a directory of my choice, run the executable and it works.

    Sure… Not everyone knows or needs to know about these edge case applications, but point stands, it works in windows, and everyone encounters an edge case sooner or later.

    I’m keen to ditch the Microsoft hole, and I have no issue with making an effort to learn, but I can’t afford to or my life in hold for hours or days at a time in order to accomplish things that already work in seconds.

    I think my simple issue here is… I’m not incompetent. I can comfortably navigate a fine system in a shell, can mount and unmount, can tar -xvzf a tarball, can do most things up to writing a shell script from scratch (could cobble something