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Thomas Tuegel

I’ve had this Pine A64 board sitting around forever and, despite meaning to, I’ve never done anything with it. It’s an activation potential problem. I always assumed it would take a lot of dedicated time to get it working. I stopped procrastinating today and… it took me longer to find an HDMI adapter than to boot the installer:
1. Copy Tow-Boot to an SD card.
2. Copy the #NixOS installer to a USB drive.
3. There is no step 3, it just works.

A photo of a monitor displaying the message of the NixOS installer when it first loads. The top line attests the architecture: aarch64.
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Thomas Tuegel

Having “solved” that problem, I face a greater task: I don’t know what to name it.

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Thomas Tuegel

@samueldr well it’s not going to be named anything if i can’t get nix to evaluate the config on this puny pine-a64 512MB, lmao 😅

Yann Büchau :nixos:

@ttuegel @samueldr Yep, had the same problem on a Pi Zero 2 W. No chance of `nixos-rebuild switch` finishing. In the end, it is much faster anyway to build and deploy from your laptop/desktop via ssh.

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Thomas Tuegel

@nobodyinperson @samueldr That is, without a doubt, the practical choice, but I think my way is more fun. 😄

Photo. A Pine A64 SBC with the top cover of its enclosure removed. A U.S. quarter dollar coin is affixed to the CPU as a makeshift heatsink. The inscription on the coin reads “LIBERTY”.
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Yann Büchau :nixos:

@ttuegel @samueldr Oh wow a coin as heatsink what the heck 😂

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@nobodyinperson @ttuegel it doesn't have as much dissipation as something with fins would, but still has a bit more surface area with the air, compared to the package's interface with air.

🤔 I wonder if anyone's done "real research" (faffing about and finding out, while taking notes) on quick and dirty heatsink alternatives.
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