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You can use armbian-config for this. Check the Freeze option.

I've gotten my Station P1. 
It looks great. I love the metal case. 
There seems to be PCIe GPIO's. Also RTC battery. 

It is sweet. Thank you for informing me about this. 

 

I never know what to get anyone.  If I'm being honest I have more than a little disdain for how commercialized the holidays have become nowadays.  We were not raised in a materialistic way growing up.  A lot of gifts were socks and other actually useful things like that (which I only appreciate now as I get older ).  Anyway...
 
So when some of the guys shared some pictures of themselves with some Armbian swag in IRC a while back, a little light bulb went off in my head. 
 
So this morning, I went nuts and spent > 400 USD sending everyone in my family some Armbian swag.    I figure, it's a good way to get the word out there to friends and family about a project I care a lot about, while supporting the project a bit financially at the same time.
 
   
 
I don't expect anyone else to spend that sort of money, in fact I am a tight wad and rarely do, myself.  But a coffee mug or something might be nice?
 
I also don't like to rush people (because I don't like to be rushed, myself), however if you are going for delivery before the holidays I would place your order ASAP, maybe even today.
 
One final gotcha, their credit card processor apparently only allow 2 orders per day.  Luckily I had sent orders to other family first, because my third order was denied.  I called their customer support and they confirmed this issue and told me to try again after 24 hours.  So the stuff that is coming here for us I will place that order (again) tomorrow.  I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about that though.

You save me!. It worked!. Now I freeze kernel updates  I back to 5.8.16.
 
Thanks!

Not sure. Go to armbian-config into system and other. Check if there are older kernel versions in the list and select one

Known issue. I put a few ideas to github but they need testing and I do not own this particular board.
 

I ordered a replacement MOSFET (same model), including a drop-in replacement from vishay with better power ratings (just in case it should happen again). Unfortunately shipping is taking longer than it should. I temporarily bypassed the MOSFET to get all the hard drives to boot up so I could transfer the more important data. I was hoping fixing it would be faster than receiving a replacement board - and for me dealing with UPS is playing Russian roulette. Fixing it by replacing a 13-14 cent component is the better option for us both. Hopefully I won't ruin the board in the process!

PR is sent, cheers

Logs are usually stored in ram and only written every few minutes to drastically increase the lifespan of sd cards. The downside is that it is sometimes hard to track down issues. You could either disable log2ram and try to reproduce or connect debug console and follow the output of code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } dmesg and wait until another freeze happens.
 
Though there does not necessary need to be any output. Sometimes systems freeze without giving a clue whatsoever :/

That is normal. Unlike other distros Armbian does not use crappy stone-age FAT32 filesystem on sd card. Simply put it into your SBC and it will work.

Pull request mention HDMI specifically:https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/2302 
 
Although I not sure about what DWC3 driver limitation he is talking about. (HDMI+hub combo working fine for me on ROCKPro64 with legacy kernel.)

Results of a quick test of the native build using the Desktop version. For tests, I tried to build several options - XFCE \ MATE \ KDE in the "minimum" and "maximum" configuration for Station P1\M1 with the current and legacy core. The "minimal" configuration is an option where no group is selected on the last package selection screen. "Maximum" configuration-all package groups are marked. The build (native) runs without errors and the output is working images. Offer. Add the "standard" options in the settings (the necessary packages are selected automatically without additional user steps), this option is equal in the set of installed packages to the current position (the set of packages is equal to those that are currently installed in DE XFCE master branch). The "maximum" is automatically marked for all the available this DE packages (options). Custom setting ("minimum") when entering it, as now, no packages are marked, the user can, not specify anything, then the output will be the "minimum" version of DE or the user chooses the necessary groups\packages.

It appears you are correct!  I don't have this board and never noticed that before.
 
 
I will move it to the appropriate forum now.

Odroid HC4 would feature 2x SATA but no USB3. USB2 only
What about NanoPi M4V2 with 4x SATA hat? Powerful but more expensive

tl;dr. The 500€ subscription has been removed. No one took the generosity challenge
 
As a replacement we added a 20€ monthly subscription to attract people who would like to give more than 5€ but 50€ would be too much.
Existing Small business subscriptions have been "upgraded" to Angel color-wise.
 

Origin:
https://github.com/armbian/autotests
 
Description:
Having a reliable automated testing for boards is absolutely mandatory. While the tests working most of the time the reports are not as reliable as they should. Also the code could need some refactoring and cleaning.
 
Destination:
https://github.com/armbian/autotests
 
Skills required:
Bash

This tutorial is based on my knowledge and experience in testing Tinkerboard. It has not been tested on other devices and I do not take any responsibility nor am I liable for any damage that may be caused through the use of this tutorial.
 
Debian / XFCE minimal desktop
Download the latest current version of Bullseye (Panfrost drivers included) for your device and follow the instructions 
https://www.armbian.com/download/ After the first login type ... 
exit (exit from root, login with your new user id)
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade (if the kernel installation prompts for modifications, just say Yes or Ok)
sudo apt install task-xfce-desktop xfce4-terminal firefox-esr network-manager-gnome gparted
sudo reboot Login graphically with your user id ...
Open Firefox and check if you have access to internet Open xfce terminal and add the basic xfce packages
sudo apt install pulseaudio pavucontrol gvfs gvfs-backends policykit-1 udisks2 catfish mousepad xarchiver gdebi gigolo
sudo reboot  
Find out ...
ARM architecture of your computer processor
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ARM_microarchitectures Latest Chrome version
https://www.google.com/search?q=The+latest+user+agents+for+Chrome&oq=The+latest+user+agents+for+Chrome&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Download the user agents text file for the latest Chrome version with the platform Chrome OS
ARMv7 (armhf / 32-bit)
https://user-agents.net/download?browser=chrome&version=87-0&browser_bits=32&platform=chromeos&platform_bits=32&name=armv7l or 
ARMv8 (arm64 / 64-bit)
https://user-agents.net/download?browser=chrome&version=87-0&platform=chromeos&name=aarch64 (use the highest version)  
Vivaldi browser installation
 Download Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com/download/archive)
ARMv7 (armhf / 32-bit)
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_3.4.2066.106-1_armhf.deb or
ARMv8 (arm64 / 64-bit)
https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_3.4.2066.106-1_arm64.deb Open GDebi and install your specific Vivaldi browser  
Create a desktop launcher
Name: DRM browser Command: /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 13505.40.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.54 Safari/537.36"
 *** Use the latest user agents text string ***  
Open Vivaldi with the DRM browser launcher and verify the parameters ...
user agent: https://whatmyuseragent.com components: vivaldi://components (check if Widevine Content Decryption Module is loaded) gpu:  vivaldi://gpu flags:  vivaldi://flags Enable > Override software rendering list  
Widevine-flash installation
Close any opened Vivaldi Browser  Open xfce terminal and download the script that fetches a ChromeOS image and extracts the Widevine and Flash
ARMv7 (armhf / 32-bit)
git clone https://gist.github.com/e025024ecffa45ee4325a3915fd8dad1.git widevine-flash
ARMv8 (arm64 / 64-bit)
git clone https://gist.github.com/7e1e1c313843d6a8180cfc1f47bee6aa.git widevine-flash
cd widevine-flash
sudo sh ./widevine-flash_arm32.sh or sudo sh ./widevine-flash_arm64.sh (and follow the instructions) Open Vivaldi with the DRM browser launcher and check if DRM is working
https://bitmovin.com/demos/drm  
Now you are ready to watch Netflix :-) Cheers!

Or is it the other way around?

Forums, apt and downloads will be off-line for approximately 30 minutes for system maintenance.   Thanks your understanding.

Odroid HC4 would feature 2x SATA but no USB3. USB2 only
What about NanoPi M4V2 with 4x SATA hat? Powerful but more expensive

If you do code { font-family: Consolas,"courier new"; color: crimson; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); padding: 2px; font-size: 105%; } swapon you will notice that the used swap is zram. By default halt of the available memory is compressed via zram as swap and the system shall use it.

In the meantime I received a quite interesting reply on my above linked thread from none other than tkaiser himself.  It's quite long and full of lots of good info, but the TL;DR is that I am re-thinking my position on btrfs now, most especially on ARM (while overall, and on x86 especially I maintain my position).  But maybe you guys know all of that already and that's why you use btrfs in the first place. 
 
However if I am going to shit up someone else's thread, especially with (apparently wrong) information, the very least I feel I should do is return and issue a retraction / update.
 
Cheers!

First pull request for me: https://github.com/armbian/config/pull/123
It is a basic implementation with my humble knowledge in bash. It may be improved by experts if possible.
I tested on my armbian dev config and it seems to work. I hope to have follow the right way to make a PR since it is my first one.

I think so.
 
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/6617-the-purpose-of-this-subforum/

Origin:
https://armbian.atlassian.net/browse/AR-200
 
Description:
SBCs become more and more powerful and one of our long term goals is to enhance the desktop experience with Armbian.
At the moment we only have @Rich Neese who spends a crazy amount of time to push this forward.
 
Destination:
https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/desktop
 
Skills required:
Bash, dealing with configuration files of various desktop environments