RE: "Just buy another $15 computer"Backup your SD card image. If something goes wrong with your OS, flash your backup image to another SD card. You can then use a customised image, no need to use somebody else's image. You can have your own users and enable your SSH, or whatever apps and configuration of your choice. You can have another $10 SD already flashed and ready to slot in. 10 seconds.
If something goes wrong with your $15 dollar computer, replace your $15 computer with another $15 computer.
This is even why the original Pi was designed as it was. The actual point of it.
If you want to teach the use of recovery systems then you need another device, the Pi doesn't need a recovery system.
Let me get this straight:
1. Hardware fails
2. Your solution: Buy new hardware
3. EEPROM corrupted
4. Your solution: Buy new hardware
5. Need recovery
6. Your solution: Buy new hardware
This is like saying:
"Car won't start? Just buy a new car!"
"Phone won't boot? Just buy a new phone!"
"Computer crashed? Just buy a new computer!"
Basic CS Concepts You're Missing:
1. Hardware Recovery
2. EEPROM Reflashing
3. Bootloader Recovery
4. Basic Maintenance
5. Fundamental Engineering
"The Pi doesn't need a recovery system"
- Every embedded platform needs recovery
- Every professional device has recovery
- Every computer since 1970 has recovery
- Except Pi, apparently
"Just backup your SD card"
- Doesn't fix EEPROM
- Doesn't fix bootloader
- Doesn't fix hardware issues
- Doesn't understand basic computing
Your "solution" summarized:
1. Hardware problem? Buy new hardware
2. Software problem? Buy new hardware
3. EEPROM problem? Buy new hardware
4. Any problem? Buy new hardware
This isn't education, it's consumption.
This isn't engineering, it's waste.
This isn't a solution, it's surrender.
Want to discuss actual technical solutions, or should we just keep buying new hardware?
Statistics: Posted by blackforestdev — Tue Nov 19, 2024 12:24 pm