Maybe I was being a bit flippant, but I don't buy the "goodwill" argument. It's probably went, and by the article, something like this:
China: Great, two can play this game, how about you now lose access to X,Y,Z that may be manufacturing, fabs, investments, rare earths, Chinese markets, etc.
Netherlands: Hmm, that costs more than this company by an order of magnitude. Take it.
This isn't taking into account back channel dealing, conflicts of interest or really anything besides a surface level reading of situation. They had them by the balls.
While it's a pain to learn and requires some plugins (addons) for basic ergonomics, FreeCAD absolutely works for parametric CAD modeling. YMMV depending on the project and complexity, it does the trick for laser cutting, bending and 3D printing.
Deltahedra is a great YouTube channel for getting the basics.
It truly is an idiot savant. It's absurdly good, and then if there is any unaccounted complexity, ugh let's just make the tests stubs.... tests pass now.
Lol, not that it's any good, but here is a pretty much purely vibed zig NES emulator that I let Claude work on: https://github.com/RAMJAC-digital/RAMBO It renders something.
This may be slightly out of date, but these patches allow HDMI out on uefi for the Max, and can probably be easily modified this for the Ultra. If there is interest I can look into this later on tonight and test on an Ultra. The HDMI device tree isn't too bad, you can kinda guess the address offsets, but you will need to dive into the 3588 refernece manual. There are some design flaws in these boards around using SPI for the wifi and bluetooth and haven't had these work yet. Vulkan hardware support is alright, and can run Chromium and Niri without issues. Ghostty doesn't as it is OpenGL only.
I use these baords for aarch64 linux builds and a basic desktop environment, and it's been pretty rock solid with EDK2. Take a gander ya'll.
It's an archlinux PKGBUILD that applies a couple patches for the device drivers and HDMI. This can probably be repurposed to build on any linux distro. Obviously flash your firmware with caution, but it's been booting from SPI to NVME without any issue for a while now.
If there is more interest in this, I can fully flesh this out.
I think that my problem is similar to this [1]. Have tried more than one USB to serial adaptor with the same result, the adaptors work fine on other boards.
The board boots Armbian fine with nothing connected to the serial port.
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