I need a good beginner's guide to making images for random weird boards. I feel like no one writes it up because it's hard. I know nothing on the topic - but I have some weird boards with chips I know are supported by the kernels I like.
I think it's like "shove some stuff into uboot" - but I'd love a high level overview. Does that even exist?
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Porn and Crime have mostly rejected LLMs and similar.
Abuse Imagery - porn which is just violence against women, instead of something ethical hasn't. The kind of porn where men can finally shut out women fully and do nothing but abuse. But that's not what people say when they say "porn is an innovator".
Romance novels haven't embraced LLMs.
We need to think about this - how are we using tools that have been rejected anyone in scrappy, innovative, and competitive markets.
One thing I really dislike, is the amount people think hosting data is hard.
People talk about needing dozens of cores or gigs of ram to host a database or a website. They get impressed by projects where someone runs a website from an Apple ][ or a pi0.
We, as free software advocates, need to remind people that the charger for a Macbook Pro is enough to run a website, not the Macbook Pro
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My three year old loves me dearly and wants to see me constantly. This is nice.
It also means I've been woken up by a smack to the face 5 out of the last 7 days so he could show me something.
Blah.
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Canada is complicit in this. Sending anyone to the US is violence
WARNING: It's not safe to visit America. You can be locked up for no reason. Even if you're a white tourist from the UK: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking of going to Trump’s America: don’t do itJenny Kleeman (The Guardian)
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in reply to silverwizard • • •nobody writes it up because honestly, it's borderline impossible to distill into anything resembling that. For the overwhelming majority of Made in China stuff, it is absolutely impossible because you're quite literally dealing with pirated closed-source binary blobs.
No, seriously. Most of those boards do not have a valid license to the processor and rely on very specific versions because that's what they were able to pirate.
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in reply to RootWyrm 🇺🇦 • •@RootWyrm 🇺🇦 Oooooh I see. I'm looking at porting OpenBSD to random stuff.
So the issue is that the uboot needs to be signed? Or something else? I am - a person who is good at this stuff, but not done this specific stuff, so I'm just trying to understand which crypto is in use? Which firmware is this?
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in reply to silverwizard • • •the issue is that the whole thing is a complete and utter shitshow that I couldn't begin to describe in toots.
For example, this is for AMLogic GXL:
github.com/repk/gxlimg
Except it requires specifically patched u-boot most of the time, and doesn't work anywhere near reliably. And that's before getting into how AWFUL u-boot actually is.
GitHub - repk/gxlimg: Boot Image creation tool for amlogic s905x (GXL)
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