Big fan of SBC gaming, open source engine recreations/source ports, gaming in general, alternative operating systems, and all things modding.

Trying to post and comment often in an effort to add to Lemmy’s growth.

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  • It may have to do with the application used to flash the SD card. Here is a comment from /r/Powkiddy

    So I flashed the RockNix one more time. Maybe third one was the charm. Also realized that I got a v2 of rgb30 and did a tweaking which they posted at their github pdf. I got my ssid but never seen connected to wifi this time. OK. I tried the old “factory reset” thingy and voila! Device is just froze at the scumm screen after the bootup. Hard shutdown and open again, its working but still no wifi.

    So I considered my other options on firmware, which is ArkOs. So I watched a video about it, decided to go with it. When I opened the ArkOs wiki, it says “DO NOT USE BALENA ETCHER WITH THIS IMAGE. There has been reports of various strange issues and inconsistent performance using Etcher for this image.” Wait, what? I was using Balena for whole of those images. OK. I downloaded another usb formater Rufus. And then while waiting for huge ArkOs download to finish, I decided to flash RockNix one more time but this time I will use Rufus…

    I did…

    Did a factory reset, all good, didn’t freeze after the boot this time.

    Enabled network, backed out, but still no “wifi is on” message… But at least, it found my SSid.

    Wait! It even connected to internet after inputting my password! What?

    Yeah, RockNix is working after I flashed it with Rufus. Really? I never thought that would effect on something like this. Dunno what happened.

    The TLDR is Rufus worked instead of Balena Etcher.








  • The level of censorship is going to be different depending on your instance and where you are posting to. A lot of instances are managed by individuals or small teams out of passion. They can do as they please and don’t have to pander to everyone for commercial appeal like Reddit or Tumblr. If someone doesn’t like what they’re doing they can join a different instance or create their own.

    Instances can defederate from each other over these differences. A lot are defederated from the instance Exploding Heads because of their alt right content for example. From what I understand you can also report content to the administrators of your instance if it goes against their rules and I think they can remove it from appearing on your instance (or block the user that posted it). This isn’t going to stop it from appearing elsewhere.