@AmpleApricots you might find this funny / horrifying
Meanwhile...Radxa is in hot water (at least in the Chinese community) for being deceptive. Apparently the CIX cannot hit advertised speeds even with official images, cue the Redhat NOTABUG attitude.
Here's chat support group convo, they told a buyer go fuck himself when caught out for deceptive advertising (they wouldn't do this to a foreigner).
Customer: Hello, why is the ram on the O6 not 6000? Why did you send me a 5500 one?
(Two hours later on a working day):
C: Can you give me an explanation? I see other people looked into the memory settings of their own O6s, and therefore checked mine.
(Four hours later)
Radaxa: Requires BIOS upgrade (TL note: LMAO, gonna be waiting until DSP dies for that)
C: What do you mean by BIOS upgrade? Is the memory setting overclocked? What relation does this have to do with BIOS? I feel like I've been scammed because I would not have known unless I checked myself.
R: First, the O6 is 64 GB RAM from Jingcun, a company preparing for an IPO in HK (TL Note: Implying that that RAM OEM would not lie)
R: The specification on this datasheet is 6600MT/s
R: To be conversation for development/testing, we set the ram speed at 5500MT/s
R: BIOS does not have option to change clock to 6000MT/s
R: If you don't like it, return it.
R: Don't get your panties in a twist
R: We really need 64GB boards
R: OOS
C: This isn't a thing about returns. If I bought it, it means I need it. If you advertise it differently from what you give, you should have given an explanation and notification as to why, instead of letting customers finding out about the issue itself, and when they ask you (support), get told to return it or piss off.
R: Well, software can be upgraded
R: O6 is considered a development board
R: We guarantee the hardware hits advertised specifications
R: Fiddle (TL: Fix the) with the software yourself
(Other person): Just edit the microcode yourself bruv
R: Otherwise, we'll remove the "Open source" labeling
R: And be like the Taiwanese OEMs, and just sell motherboards then.
Another Radaxa support: Why is everyone so upset?
C: Not everyone is hyper-knowledgeable about this stuff, my concerns stem from the fact there during my research, I discovered there is a discrepancy between the advertised specifications and promotional materials you (TL: the company) have presented, with these doubts, I asked customer support (TL: Here, on the official support wechat) in the morning, and nobody replied to me, if you are the service provider, aren't you supposed to alleviate your customers concerns? Am I supposed to be an emotionless robot? Are my concerns not valid? Have you looked in the mirror and see what (TL: Bullshit) you're writing? Must your devices be for specialized professionals only? If so, then why is this available to the open market?
R: It is not that nobody will respond, when we received your questions we had to internally check the reason for this state of the memory, if it was software or hardware issue. After which we determined this hardware is physically capable of hitting the advertised speeds. Only due to software is it limited, can cannot reach 6000 due to not being able to set the option. In the next version update we will patch the issue allowing the 6000 speed to be set.
R: Isn't it enough just to tell me the issue? Why bother with your sperging above?
R: Isn't that the logic we should use?
Third Radxa person: (Laugh/cry emoji), Please bear with me here... (TL: He is insinuating the customer is a jackass/lacks manners or face).
Unrelated person: Technical people lack nuanced skills. Nuanced people lack technical skills
. I have zero requirement for a regular monitor since my use case is to shitpost, shitcode, compile gentoo (via ssh) and occasionally throw my keyboard at the wall when shit breaks bigly on a cross-compile (usually because I forgot to read news).
