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>>todsac+(OP)
I totally understand the Frustration the author has here. But I'd rather have any working software version than 10 that don't work well at all and that has always been my pine64 experience. Great hardware, barely any documentation, important hardware and software features don't work at all or are locked behind a very old kernel version

>>dtx1+y9
How does making alternatives harder to boot and pissing of maintainers of software components they rely on improve their quality long-term?

>>detaro+0a
It's an entity that's in a position to make a design decision - "We will have one bootloader flashed onto the eMMC - the same for every device we produce." It creates a standard which users and developers alike can fix themselves to. It is definitely a good thing, if you are worried about productizing -- but perhaps not so great if you want a diverse community of hackers.

>>jovial+Ma
Well, with SPI it was the same bootloader too.