things are going just great for raspberry pi:

[thezosia@mastodon.com.pl]

@zzt

https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show

Try this if you haven't yet. I have it on my 3B+ and after some time of wrestling with settings it finally worked out.

[zzt@mas.to]

@theZosia that didn’t work when I tried it, and I’m not sure if that’s because it doesn’t support my display or because it’s broken on trixie

[thezosia@mastodon.com.pl]

@zzt

I may be broken on trixie, I had to make a workaround, probably with python libraries or so, but GPT guided me through the process most of the way and I brute-forced the last step or so just changing couple lines of settings again and again.

Oh, and:

sudo con2fbmap 1 1

[zzt@mas.to]

@theZosia you don’t appear to actually know anything and I don’t appear to have asked for help

[zzt@mas.to]

holy fucking shit maybe it should go without saying that I’m not asking for help and I’m especially not asking for help based on something you got from fucking ChatGPT

raspberry pi community are you ok?

[zzt@mas.to]

the fucking display works! and all it cost me was my dignity

now it’s time to write the OS to the SSD it’ll actually be living on and then find out how much compiling on this thing sucks

by the numbers it should be faster than the opi, but this is Broadcom, home of the GPU that happens to have ARM cores, so I’m expecting the worst

[cap_ybarra@beige.party]

@zzt "helping" by posting something you asked slopotron is a special kind of stupid

is it a special skill to type words into google? was this a degree of effort you feel warrants merit?

[zzt@mas.to]

@neoluddite @jpm buying this rpi was like pulling fucking teeth for me because of that, it’s an absolute last resort purchase I still regret

unfortunately, these fuckers have done the techfash thing and made themselves a broken ecosystem with no way out

not that most of their shit community will notice, they just want a digital picture frame that runs openclaw or whatever horseshit some rpi influencer told them they should build

[zzt@mas.to]

@neoluddite @jpm holy shit are they still playing availability games with the zero? I remember with the first one they did that to eliminate competitors (this is Broadcom with a non-profit mask on after all)

[zzt@mas.to]

@neoluddite @jpm oooh reading this is going to improve my mood significantly

[zzt@mas.to]

@jpm @neoluddite my favorite thing about the rpi is it started life as an extremely unsuccessful Broadcom set top box board

yes, that’s why it boots from the GPU and why the port layout is a fucking crime

you’d think they’d have undone any of that since then but as you said, hackers don’t use rpi, rpi uses hackers. decades of free labor and goodwill to turn a failure into a success

[zzt@mas.to]

@cap_ybarra I’ve seen @froztbyte call this type “help vampires” before and it fits

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@zzt even the custom.toml method is removed?

[kirtai@tech.lgbt]

@zzt @jpm @neoluddite
I need a Pi5 to make a Zynthian and am very very angry with what's happening.

[zzt@mas.to]

@arichtman @jpm @neoluddite https://patrickmccanna.net/the-raspberry-pi-boot-order-is-unusual/

> The Raspberry Pi uses Broadcom BCM2xxx chips where The “main” processor is a VideoCore IV/VI GPU is activated at power-on. It runs proprietary firmware that handles the boot. The BCM2xxx chips are typically used in set-top boxes for video streaming/entertainment. For these types of devices, the goal is to quickly get to a flashy user interface.

all of this is exactly as goofy as it sounds

[xlrobot@mastodon.social]

@zzt elegantly put to words my pains and frustration with Pi. recently had to reimage an SD card twice, second time using their official imager, just to get SSH on first boot. it felt so unnecessary and regressive... these days, like the company itself

[zzt@mas.to]

@arichtman @jpm @neoluddite if you’ve ever wondered why some people are loud about the raspberry pi not being open source, by the way, this is most of the software end (alongside the vendor distro being riddled with proprietary crap but that comes with the territory in embedded unfortunately). the root of trust and main processor in every raspberry pi since 2012 has been proprietary and under broadcom’s exclusive control. it’s extremely hard to write anything for the GPU if you aren’t them.

[moses_izumi@fe.disroot.org]

@zzt @jpm @neoluddite
If the Raspberry Pi company cared about hackers, they would've leaned way harder into the DIY portable electronics scene.

Imagining a world where every vaguely motivated user builds their own laptops and phones around standardized components (just like with desktops): instead of making gross compromises to get the features they want.

[jpaskaruk@growers.social]

@kirtai @zzt if you're hacky, I was told there is a script of sorts for installing the Zynthian UI on any Debian system in the repo somewhere. Might be worth trying that on an Orange.

@jpm @neoluddite

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@zzt @jpm @neoluddite that sure explains how Eben Upton went from "completely open thing built on a microcontroller beloved of the open hardware community with a Python REPL in ROM" to "this PoS my employer saw the chance to get a tax break on offloading, but hey, it's much faster and runs Linux - job done, right?"