things are going just great for raspberry pi:

[zzt@mas.to]

things are going just great for raspberry pi:

- the only distro that ships the drivers for my display is raspberry pi os so fuck it, terrible it is
- I dd it to the microsd card
- I can’t kvm to the pi4 cause nothing uses microhdmi so I don’t have an adapter
- there’s no way to configure networking and SSH without imager cause all methods were removed in favor of fucking Canonicial cloud-init of all things, which they haven’t actually implemented
- my nixpkgs has a broken rpi imager

[hipsterelectron@circumstances.run]

@zzt canonicial (adj.) — utterly craven, undependable, actively harmful. (see: betrayal)

[zzt@mas.to]

I briefly consider excruciatingly writing the same script the imager does to the microsd card before I settle on appimage-running the imager

what part of this is good again?

what part of this fucking softserve slop is supposed to make me feel like I’m DIYing something?

all of the computing parts of what I’m doing are prepackaged garbage, the only parts I get a say in are the physical mounts I’m going to design

[zzt@mas.to]

DIYer: someone who puts a hat on the pi and puts it into a case somebody manufactured

fucking riveting

[thezosia@mastodon.com.pl]

@zzt what RasPI and what display do you use?

[zzt@mas.to]

@jpm yep https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspberrypi-sys-mods/issues/94 and https://github.com/RPi-Distro/raspberrypi-sys-mods/issues/82#issuecomment-3912903659 the remaining way to do this looks fucking exhausting and the raspberry pi people can’t actually answer any questions about how it’s supposed to work

[zzt@mas.to]

@theZosia rpi 4, https://www.waveshare.com/2.8inch-dsi-lcd.htm

[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?