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Werner

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  1. At the moment there are three different saved actions that kind of cover the same thing: Complain about missing data :P

    I suggest to merge those to one standardized reply that covers missing data and armbianmonitor -u as well as tips.

    Something like this (with a bit of additional formatting):

     

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    Your support topic is lacking of important debugging information. Please edit and fix!

     

    Please describe your setup as best as possible so we know what your operating environment is like.

     

    • Name of your board with all details, version number, take a picture if you are not sure what you have
    • Name of the image you installed or logs if you can boot the board: armbianmonitor -u (paste URL to your forum post)
    • If your board does not boot, provide a log from serial console (UART) or at least make and attach a picture, where it stops.
    • Describe the problem the best you can and provide all necessary info that we can reproduce the problem.
    • If anything is attached to the board, supply all details

     

    Tips:

     

    • use spoiler  when adding a long text,
    • use  when adding a code,
    • be concise.

    Will unhide and add this reply.

  2. It is no longer possible to add tags, either custom or pre-defined, to topics in all Bug Tracker forums and TV boxes. Existing tags are kept.

    Prefixes have been adjusted and fixed in those forums to fit actual needs and reduce uncontrolled growth.

  3. I'll try to give an example of what I have planned to change. These are the current terms of use:

     

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    User:

     

    The official forum language is English. Non-English posts may be hidden or deleted. Please use a translation tool if necessary.

    Do not bump topics or create duplicate messages for the purpose of bringing attention to your issue. If bumping an old topic to resume conversation or provide new information, update the beginning post if possible.

    Always be respectful to each other. Be a good community member and practice proper netiquette.

    Try to stay on topic defined by the starting post or developer posts in the thread. Off-topic posts that derail the discussion may be hidden, moved or deleted.

    Do not abuse private messaging for tech support. Support issues should be discussed on the forum to benefit the community.

    Do not abuse the forum for marketing or self-promotion.

    Do not spam. Posts recognised as spam may be hidden or deleted.

    Breaking the rules will result in a warning. Multiple warnings will result in a ban.

    In case you think moderator abused your rights, use this form. 

     

    Users with moderator rights:

     

    enforce users policy.

    move threads to the correct sub forum

    cut and move off topic sections from one thread to another,

    merge more topics under one if that gives better topic overview,

    can edit posts for a purpose of:

    moving code under code,

    moving text under spoilers,

    if author explicitly asked for,

    breaking the rules will result in a warning. Multiple warnings will result in revoking moderator rights

     

    I thought about something like this:


     

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    • Be respectful and practice proper netiquette.
    • The official forum language is English only. Please use a translator tool if necessary.
    • Try avoiding to drift off the actual topic.
    • Do not create duplicates in different forums or bump your own topic to gain attention to your issue. If bumping an old topic to resume conversation or provide new information, update the beginning post if possible.
    • Do not abuse private messaging for support requests. Issue should be discussed publicly to benefit the community.
    • Do not abuse the forums for spam, advertising or self-promotion.

     

    Some users in this forum have additional permissions, including but not limited to edit/hide/delete any post or split/merge topics in their specific forum or globally as needed. These users are recognized as moderators or administrators and are instructed to use their permission to their best knowledge and believe. They are responsible to enforce the terms of service mentioned above and can issue warnings or disable user accounts as last resort. Misuse of these privileges will result in revocation of their permissions.

     

     

    Notes:

    It does not make sense to note that violating various topics of these TOS lead into punishment since it is to be expected that any violation of those lead into punishment. Therefore these "inline notes" have been removed and summarized at the bottom.

    abusive behaviour has been summarized.

    The less text the TOS provide the higher the chance that they will be read at all. Or did anybody ever read the 100 pages of Google TOS?:lol:

  4. 8 hours ago, NicoD said:

    18.04

    Or meanwhile better 20.04 (Focal)

    You may run into some unsatisfying QEMU messages when building particular images with Bionic. Still supported though but might break someday. At the latest when it becomes EOL in three years :lol:

     

     

     

  5. 17 hours ago, Tido said:

    Like this:  SD card and PSU issues / Board does not start  ?

     

    Yep, something like this.

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    by the way, both are garbage collectors ;)

    Another reason to get rid of one of those :P

     

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    sd card and PSU issues was once thought to be a subforum where stuff gets moved to once we know it's a psu issue.. to point people at it in case they don't believe their shitty setup is the reason things don't go as expected.. kinda hall of ....

    Understand. But it seems to me it is kind a mixed at the moment because there was not much such "movement".

  6. 17 hours ago, Tido said:

    At some place these rules need to be.

    If thinking about...why?

    See people that are moderating forums or will moderate in future are most likely no kids. They use common sense when doing their stuff. So it should suffice to MAYBE tell them these rules on time and it should be fine.

    17 hours ago, Tido said:

    © 2019 Armbian. All rights reserved.

    Not sure if this is even necessary. Theoretically Armbian is based within the European Union and therefore the EU copyright laws are active which don't see the need of such a hint. There is copyright protection in general. Those hints are needed by US law AFAIK.

  7. 4 hours ago, Mangix said:

    I have two power supplies that are the same as the one included EXCEPT for the fact that they are female connectors, not male. Any way to adapt them so that they work?

    If they have the have the exact same ratings in voltage and current I'd say (and assumed you are a bit familiar with the basics) pickup a couple fitting connectors and solder them to the wires.

  8. 16 minutes ago, CHB said:

     

    ok, after reading a lot of post in this forum i saw that the fastest cpu for tvbox was S922X or RK3399, which can advise me the best tvbox with eMMC memory (I will like to install the system on eMMC instead of android)

     

    the goal being to find a tvbox that boots with armbian, a network card that works (I only connect to tvbox to the ethernet network, no screen, no sound, no BT or wifi or other, so the graphics are not important, just see in terminal mode) I want to install bionic or focal in server mode.

    Thanks for your help

    Then the best idea is to not get a tvbox but a board that is officially supported: https://www.armbian.com/download/

     

  9. The registration terms containing:

     

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    Users with moderator rights:

     

    enforce users policy.

    move threads to the correct sub forum

    cut and move off topic sections from one thread to another,

    merge more topics under one if that gives better topic overview,

    can edit posts for a purpose of:

    moving code under code,

    moving text under spoilers,

    if author explicitly asked for,

    breaking the rules will result in a warning. Multiple warnings will result in revoking moderator rights

    While the regulation as it is makes sense it does not being in the registration notes since the chance that a users registierung him-/herself just to become a moderator is decently low.

    These should be more kind of rules that members have to agree which are elected to become a forums moderator.

     

    Therefore I suggest to either remove those entirely or rewrite them to descripe what the rights and duties of moderators are and integrate this information into the common terms.

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