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Originally Posted by RandomGiraffe
Indeed. It was a very long week after starting a new job on Monday, so alas I was not operating at full capacity and installed the incorrect version of the hacks 
Well I have now updated to 5.9.4 (3278740046) and installed Python and the screensavers hack via ;log mrpi, but I only see the "Screensavers hack successfully installed but not yet processed a cover" image rather than a book cover. Never mind, I shall keep fiddling at this end, ensuring I only install only the correct version of things  |
You might need to use builds from either NiLuJe's snapshots or coplate's snapshots.
The Amazon firmware numbers no longer represent source code revision level(s). (they might as well avoid that, since they never got it right anyway)
The Amazon firmware numbers are now being used to represent the "feature set" provided by a firmware build.
The software's build and behavior can (and does) vary with the model it is intended for.
All we need now is a three dimensional spreadsheet to keep track of what works where (four dimensions if we want to include
when).
= = = =
Call it:
Job security
With the development staff that is familiar (only) with Amazon/Linux is faced with possibly losing their jobs when the devices are switched over to Google/Linux ...
It is only reasonable that they create as many reasons as possible that they need to be kept on the job.
If Bezos (with more money than common sense) had any good sense, he would fire the entire lot of them and turn over firmware development to ourselves.