It normal does work with USB3, yes. And no, this pendrive works perfectly fine and I’ve used it to install many other OSes since.

Edit: and I might add that I finally found the solution online so I was definitely not the only one confronted to this problem

The Loop by Volkor x (available on Bandcamp)

Also on YouTube: Volkor X - The Loop [FULL ALBUM] (2023)

Installing regular Windows 10/11 is definitely more than twice as painful than installing Debian 12.

Once, I was trying to install Windows 10 and wasted an entire day! The installation would systematically fail at the beginning of the installation with a BS error message that doesn’t give any hint about what’s going wrong. In the end it just didn’t like USB3 as an installation media! I reflashed it to a USB2 and it worked, but OMG was it super slow ! It took literally hours to install !!!

Debian, even as a noobie, you’ll go from flashing your ISO to a booted system within an hour. If you’ve done it once before, you will get it done in 20 minutes.

I too, obtain great please from gaming on Linux.

I am a little bit bummed to see the RAM is soldered and the storage options are limited to SD card and eMMC. But it definitely looks like the most mature Risk-V computer one can get at the moment.

When life gives you avocados, make guacamole 🍋

I support this type of plans. It’s so much more pleasant to go through a city with greenery rather than try to squeeze your way between rows of cars…

Owning a car if you live in central Paris is already more of a burden than anything else.

I had to control my laugh during a meeting :D

Sometimes I just hate the autocorrect on my phone… I meant to write “shot glass of rhum”

You can make banane flambée !

• Split the bananas length-wise as good as possible, they should split in 3.
• lay them done in a pan
• heat it until hot, no need to cook them too much
• sprinkle with powdered sugar
• prepare a shitshot glass of brown rhum and some matches (or lighter)
• pour the shot on the bananas and light it on fire !!! 🔥
• turn of the heat, let it extinguish buy itself

Et voilà ! You have delicious caramelized banana desert!

No. I initially thought of publishing the files. But there are some issues with the design I didn’t fix and the whole thing is built around the NanoPi M4V2, which I don’t think you can buy anymore.

Bowling.

Agree. Looking back at the outcome of last EU parliament elections. Looking at the political situation in France, Germany, Austria, Italy… We are fucked.

The seller mentions the drives are fully tested, but does not offer a warranty, aside from the Ebay 30-day return policy.

I left a comment to the Ebay seller and asked the same question, but I did not get a reply.

Ah yes ! I just fixed that. Thanks.

What do you use for the bit-by-bit test and how long does it take (depending on disk size) ? I have read about badblocks and that it could take an entire week to test one drive of 12TB, I didn’t have the patient to do that. The long SMART test already took nearly 20 hours in my case.

Thank you

Thank you ! It was a cool design project, but I ended up no publishing the design as it is quite difficult to assemble and work with. here are a couple more photos:

The black box with white front and blue LED lights, yes. I designed and built it myself. The case is made of laser-cuted plexiglass and 3D printed parts. The front plate is PLA, internals are PETG. It’s build around an ARM Single-Board Computer: NanoPi M4V2 with a SATA extension hat.