Again no luck with 10th August snapshot. By that I mean: no response to ping, SSH, and no graphical output.
Should I give up? Yes, it could be argued that I am swimming against the tide - using older hardware with a niche (but stable) BIOS amongst the insatiable capitalist machines that churn out the latest junk, receiving overinvestment and dominance for illogical, consumeristic reasons. Emulating RISC in hardware is, admittedly, a crackpot idea that can only survive so long. In my opinion, almost all boards should have open-source BIOS and not-memory-leaking microcode, and software (such as web browsers, word processors) should be significantly lighter to begin with (though this minimalism has become a little more true with the smartphone movement), but instead the situation with computers is incredibly the opposite. But sure, there is a time and a place for speculative execution, performance is sometimes more important than security. I just wanted a well-supported board that checked the seemingly-most-important boxes, and it worked well for so long (and arguably still works fine, but with disappating kernel compatibilities).
