05:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> yes, unfortunately this will always be the case. We can only fight this together. If you find a solution, make a pull request

09:07 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> Guys, it booted again. I think I Got it now: last time the heatsink was touching the emmc a bit, and it succesefully detected the SD card. Now it wouldn't boot, I remembered that, so I intentionally shorted the fuck out of the emmc and it works. I would have never thought to do that.

09:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> Guys, it booted again. I think I got it now: last time the heatsink was touching the emmc a bit, and it succesefully detected the SD card. Now it wouldn't boot, I remembered that, so I intentionally shorted the fuck out of the emmc and it works. I would have never thought to do that.

09:13 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858829379642720296/1252914233222369342/Screenshot_20240619_121224.png?ex=6673f2cf&is=6672a14f&hm=89cfb62857d86cc078f33cb6e12916741f42e748c23e0f29873db1e91a2a9335&

09:29 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> Congratulate me, I am even more of a failure now. It froze at 6%, so I restarted and tried again, and now the power LED doesn't come on.

09:30 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> ...is there a fuse somewhere?

09:51 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> Just draws 1.5 amps now and does nothing. Attached is last ever screams. R.I.P. TV Box I "permanently" borrowed in 2019.

09:51 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858829379642720296/1252923717416124416/Screenshot_20240619_124715.png?ex=6673fba4&is=6672aa24&hm=787ada6430b0bf5d54166d80ca201e03e0d4a864a754f9e18024fcda53e3dfb0&

09:57 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> It's not really about the end, it's about the journey, the things we learned, the dozens of compiled bootloaders and kernels and the 3 SD cards purchased.

12:10 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <infinity_q> lesson: never get a tvbox.

12:28 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <apertureua> lesson: never short any pins anywhere unless your read some datasheets (or poke a multimeter everywhere) and make sure there's no 5v power line somewhere (there was one)

12:29 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <infinity_q> well that too.

14:39 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <awesomerly> How would I go about that? I've seen that this stuff is implemented as patches to the kernel. I looked at what other people have done and it seems that they include the spi stuff with other board bringup things. <https://github.com/sipeed/LonganPi-3H-SDK/blob/a6543d1e460a032fa9471d15b3cffd9ea3be4596/linux/0039-longanpi-3h-default-enable-uart1-i2c3.patch> is an example

14:40 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <awesomerly> and I'm not the person to ask for all this stuff. I would need to talk to the person who has the maintenance burden of the board i am using

14:45 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/

17:33 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <reddeck_> I don't get the orange pi makers... They make sort of decent boards for the price, but their support or lack of is getting on my nerves...

17:36 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> Allwinner is the only distro that worked on my OrangePi PC, even teh official images failed to boot. To be fair, that was a very long time ago.

17:38 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <johnthecoolingfan> I mean Armbian

18:40 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <awesomerly> allwinner too. the hardware decoding stuff they have is proprietary and completely out of tree with no source