▲ 519 ▼ Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades (www.notebookcheck.net) submitted 1 month ago by empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world 109 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (4 children) Radxa and orange pi are better anyway. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children) I have to disagree. They are better hardware with way worse software support. Pi's one big selling point is how out of the box friendly they are, meanwhile getting an orange pi flashed and booting Linux is an interesting experience using a Chinese flash writer with no English translation (back when I tried an orange pi 4). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 child) You can just use the Armbian flasher. I have an orange pi 5 plus and a Radxa rock 5-itx, and that's what I've done with both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago you can also use the raspberry pi flasher, ironically. permalink fedilink source parent [–] esc@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago You can flash them with whatever usb imager or dd? Like there is close to zero effort required and they are somewhat supported by armbian. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children) I have to disagree. They are better hardware with way worse software support. Pi's one big selling point is how out of the box friendly they are, meanwhile getting an orange pi flashed and booting Linux is an interesting experience using a Chinese flash writer with no English translation (back when I tried an orange pi 4). permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 child) You can just use the Armbian flasher. I have an orange pi 5 plus and a Radxa rock 5-itx, and that's what I've done with both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago you can also use the raspberry pi flasher, ironically. permalink fedilink source parent [–] esc@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago You can flash them with whatever usb imager or dd? Like there is close to zero effort required and they are somewhat supported by armbian. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 child) You can just use the Armbian flasher. I have an orange pi 5 plus and a Radxa rock 5-itx, and that's what I've done with both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago you can also use the raspberry pi flasher, ironically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago you can also use the raspberry pi flasher, ironically. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] esc@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago You can flash them with whatever usb imager or dd? Like there is close to zero effort required and they are somewhat supported by armbian. permalink fedilink source parent