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Posted at 2020-08-23
I've received an Orange π lite a few days ago. If you don't know, it's a microcomputer like Raspberry π but cheaper.
The setup was quite simple. I flashed an armbian iso with Etcher to a 32 GB microSD card. Then I put the card into the Orange π, plugged in the power cable (the other side was sticked into a power bank I won at a hackathon), plugged in a monitor. It launched successfully!
That armbian operating system is quite good. There are separate images for every microcomputer out there.
https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-lite/
I heard the default repo golang version is really outdated, so I installed 1.15 with some help of this guide:
https://gist.github.com/simoncos/49463a8b781d63b5fb8a3b666e566bb5
Then I installed my wiki engine and cloned the wiki itself. Works fine but the pages are saved kinda slow. Gonna look into that.
https://github.com/bouncepaw/mycorrhiza
Once I'd made the initial configuration, I removed the monitor and the keyboard. Now, the only way of controlling this computer is via SSH. It's quite easy to me because I'm familiar with CLI. By the way, all pages on this site are written through SSH too. Terminal rules.
The only problem I encountered is the heat. I'm not comfortable with it running at 50 or 60 or so degrees so the computer is not used often for now. I'll get a heatsink soon, I hope it will resolve all the problems.
Oh, there's another caveat: ed(1) is not pre-installed!
gemini://tanelorn.city/~bouncepaw/gemlog/re-naming-computers.gemini
I named this computer `emondsfield`, after the Emond's Field in The Wheel of Time series. It is a small remote village. Just as small as Orange π!