September 7, 20251 yr I have two of these cheap Chinese sticks and I was wondering if I could load a better OS onto them I think there's only a USB port
September 10, 20251 yr @snow try the transpeed image https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306
October 27, 2025Oct 27 Author @Nick A Thank you for the reply! I am still eager to try and load a different OS onto these two sticks. Sorry for the delay, somehow I just found the e-mail notifying me of your response now I'm not familiar with the process of trying to flash an image so I will start there, but before I do, is there a possibility whatever changes are made won't work, can't be undone and then brick the device? I'd probably rather not risk it if that's a possibility. But if there's always a way to re-flash them, I'm totally interested in trying anything I possibly can I'll wait to hear back from you before I attempt anything -- thank you!!
October 27, 2025Oct 27 @snow download balena etcher and flash the image onto a sdcard. This will boot armbian off the sdcard. Unless you use armbian-config and write to emmc you will be fine.
October 27, 2025Oct 27 Author @Nick A Shoot, I don't think it actually has an SD card slot: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006258812291.html I am holding it in my hand now, unless it's somehow obscured or hidden then it looks like there's only a USB-A port and then a USB-C port for input power
October 28, 2025Oct 28 Author I probably better wait on it, that looks above my skill set unfortunately, I consider myself just a novice user. I can handle burning and image and booting it, if it's fairly straightforward, but I probably shouldn't dig myself any deeper for now LOL I'll be on standby in case anything ever changes or becomes easier in the process!
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