Fair enough. Do you know if leadership prefers the offer of hardware donations handled a certain way or can I just make an offer here on Lemmy ?
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That's good to hear. Are there any specific team members who are working on the device ports or are they in more need of hardware donations at this point ?
So I did some further testing and had some luck. Pmbootstrap just didn't like that specific EMMC. I could install to another EMMC, a SD Card, could clone the SD card over to the first EMMC, and could install to my NVME. So no idea what the issue was with the first EMMC but i'm happy regardless as I prefer the NVME anyway.
So I received an email from Pine64 on this matter:
"Does to double Ethernet height, currently only acrylic enclosure available. the Rockpro64 Premium Aluminum casing not suitable for Star64 SBC."
Guess no NVME option at the moment as the acrylic case is too short for that.
So there is a happy ending. I called the Customer Accounts Team at Mouser. They couldn't explain why the order was cancelled but sent me an email link to verify the credit card used. After that the order was reinstated and shipped. It arrived less than 12 hours after that. Now to find time to play with my new Unmatched......
I use BTRFS on my Artix system, Ext4 on my Librem 5, Ext4 on my Devuan laptop and Ext4 on my Pinebook Pro. Basically when given the choice in the installer I choose BTRFS but if the installer doesn't let me pick I don't care enough to manually partition. I have had no negative experiences with any file system luckily so I just roll with whatever.
One of the reasons I prefer GOG is that I don't want to use a client. I prefer to download offline installers and then run my games through Lutris or Heroic Games Launcher.
I wish more projects delved into this amount of detail in regards to donations and financial plans. Thank you for the effort and for using Open Collective.