Louis Rossman is a good one although it’s pretty focused on MacBook repairs.

He does share a lot of pointers that do apply for any other component level repair:

* you can never have too much flux

* do not clean the board before fixing it (corrosion can help point towards the actual cause of the issue)

* importance of the availability of schematics

Exactly that!

Whilst the ad revenue normally doesn’t even cover the hosting costs of the site - which isn’t even expensive! It does give me the motivation to write more content.

If you don’t like ads feel free to use an Adblock - I use https://adblockplus.org/

If you want to buy a Pi for a very low price you could even setup pihole: https://pi-hole.net/

There’s nothing misleading when I say I’m not doing this to make a quick buck. I’m really not it’s just a lockdown project as there really isn’t much else to do in my spare time.

Also I do appreciate the feedback, I have tamed down the ads on the site- I’m usually behind my pihole so didn’t realise quite how annoying they were.

I’d love too! Maybe one day once the pandemic is over.

Thanks for the share!

Hello, thanks for the share!

Exactly!

It’s in the article. 4.15 compiled specifically for the onboard SOC. It’s not a Debian kernel.

I tried that, it refused to execute armel binaries however arm64 worked fine.

I’m not sure if it’s a bug or something I was doing wrong but I gave up and just finished the install on the device.

The board already has spi flash but it’s only 8 or 16mb. Enough for buildroot or maybe openwrt but Debian ain’t going to fit in there.

Not Debian, but there are lots of Linux distros pared down to fit on a single floppy disk. They will run just fine within that amount of RAM.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161109230651/https://bengross....

Check these out:

http://tinycorelinux.net/

https://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Main_Page