I’m not at the level where I compile packages, I’m totally dependent on you techier guys, but I grabbed a Nezha SBC a couple of years ago, downloaded their version of Debian, and… Not much. I could get a desktop, but couldn’t surf. No sound. No WiFi.

I think I may fire it up again, or grab something newer at some point in the near future. I was eyeballing the Musebook laptop, but it’s too pricey at the moment for what I expect I’ll be getting.

I’d love to know if it’s a better experience out there now!

Commenting to register my interest.

I will confess that I was tempted to throw some snarky comment about Linux, but I got over the urge.

Yeah, I did try that. Basically, if I doubled the memory I allocated, I gave it half again longer before it crashed, but it still crashed, eventually.

It’s no big deal, this was last year, I may try again one day. Loving Searxng though!

I tried running yacy for a while but it just ran for a bit less than a day then ran out of memory and crashed, over and over. Tried to figure out the problem, but it’s niche enough that I couldn’t get anywhere googling the issue.

I bought a SiFive… Something from them. No drama. Took a while, but Canada. Canada Customs likes to put things in a pile for a few weeks for reasons I haven’t figured out yet.