@cabang The money is not as much an issue.. like it's really annoying and limiting, but i can manage that and people donating also helps,, but the main thing is the horrible management and code quality that i keep trying to fix only to be told that it's trash and that i need to rewrite it back to the broken code.

i tried to address it in https://forum.armbian.com/topic/30111-implement-request-for-comment-rfc but any kind of criticism and trying to improve the situation just gets met with temporary ban and being treated like shit

@hackbyte

• Buying the hardware - 216.59 USD

• Development time - 37h of work, i usually take around 40~100 EUR/h, for project alike armbian even 3 EUR/h adds up

• Sometimes i have to pay so that i get the information needed to make the hardware work - Hard to estimate

• Additional accessories to work with the device - ~10 EUR

But like the money is not an issue i can somewhat cover it.

The issue is code quality and treatment

Like https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/5691#issuecomment-1712735852 ‘we earn nothing because we teach you’ and shit alike.. like i can’t even ask on IRC for help with the code without being treated as an annoyance and having to search the very hard to read code myself and trying to change things to see what it does which was 70% of the development for LicheePi 4A and this is like constant shit and having to turn my code from a reliable, easy to read and understand thing into a garbage just to make it mergable

@kreyren Got ya ..... didn't knew that you actually waded that deep into this rabbit hole.... Would like to look up your donation addresses rn to chip in at least some bits.

Maybe give me a paypal address or such? ;)

.oO( it's about 02:30 am over here rn and i got some booze .... but i will get back to this. -- just because i love to see more risc-v stuff ;))

@hackbyte Same i got the licheepi 4a bcs it's a module and i want to turn that into a rugged tablet and i love the economy of modules for OSHW basically buy the module for ~50 EUR and then you can make your own PCBs 5 for 25 EUR to turn that into a desktop, tablet, phone, drone, etc.. :D Worked on that in https://git.dotya.ml/kreyren/OSHW-System-On-Module#projected-cost-fabrication-development-and-usage-of-oshw-projects-utilizing-this-standard

Also worked on BeagleV-Ahead it works already and will be submitted after the highlighted merge request is merged:https://github.com/Kreyren/armbian-build-kreyren/tree/canIPetDatDawg

@hackbyte I have donation link on https://github.com/Kreyren/kreyren/blob/master/README.md#donate

Thanks it will help a lot

@kreyren Heh .. ok i need o look how i can get down payments that way ........ i'm well into that realm, but most of my reserves are in other currencies.... ;)

@kreyren just a humbly tiny thing ... please keep up your good work ;)

@hackbyte Every little bit helps and is a great motivation, thanks! ^-^

@hackbyte Also sorry for taking a long time to reply :D i was working on https://github.com/AerithForge/AerithForge/pull/58