new_world_odor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t feel bad at all. Someone with less technical skill than yourself would have already resorted to making a return, or even started whatever dispute/fraud process they have (assuming it was sold as working good condition).
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Or perhaps worse (like paying extra money or installing provided malware (at least seems like it based on VirusTotal)).
I’ve checked the official guides. They’re awful as hell. They use some random programs, which are provided on there as exe files. Considering that the one I checked makes VirusTotal blink like a Christmas tree, they’re probably not good. Mind you, the card was still taped in with warranty void sticker.
For restoring the image, they provide disk images as .pmf files, which I have trouble finding information about.
They also talk about file access over SMB and SFTP. All is well, except that they show you to log into your router to find the device’s IP address to connect to it. Meanwhile, it responds to mDNS for emuelec.local. They don’t even know their own products? Right, they just copied FOSS software and sold it.
Worst part now. The provided software to browse the SD card will mount it read only. As people report in YouTube comments, they had to pay for a license to mount it read-write and modify configs as the official guides follow.
Guess what that is doing.
Mounting ext4 on Windows. That’s it. Paying money to use ext4.
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