just tried usbimager. got an error: "Permission denied" after i explicitly gave it permission to access the drive.

it's probably written as one of those "universal" apps that's basically just a packaged browser

indeed... :-(

it burns my microsd cards way faster than dd, what do you mean "inefficient to its core"?

Do you choose your block size when you use dd? For me, on multiple OSes and oldish hardware, $ dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/disk bs=1M seems noticably faster than etcher. I suspect thats not even the optimal choice

Edit:noticed this is sort of a repeat answer, leaving it so the people saying its slow can copy/paste and try it out.

I highly doubt that it's faster than a dd with proper blocksize. With inefficient I mean that it's an Electron application.

you ALWAYS need another pi ;)

THANK YOU! I was looking up and down the net for something like this, couldn't find it for the life of me.

When you need to create some software, I guess you start by writing your own OS first? This is how all OSS works - you build on top of other projects.

I think what people are complaining about is the fact that the linked project is not the project that actually solves the problem stated in the title. This linked project did not enable “using a raspberry pi as an airplay server,” it just packaged someone’s project that already did that.

If you're not melting your own sand into silicon ingots and slicing them into wafers, are you even a real programmer?

from what i can tell, the pro version is fairly hackable - you can literally write software that will sense what's plugged into it and do something with that. for example, you can plug an oscilloscope into port 1, a DMM into port 2, a 3d printer into port 3, power your circuit from port 4, and you have a "brain" that controls your entire setup as well as reads inputs from your measuring equipment, might be far-fetched, i'm just spitballing ideas here

you can get progress (without any other commands installed) like this:

After you start dd, open another terminal and enter either:

`sudo kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd$)`

Or, if you're on BSD or OS X:

`sudo kill -INFO $(pgrep ^dd$)`

https://askubuntu.com/a/215521

but etcher seems to be way faster than dd for me

>but etcher seems to be way faster than dd for me

bs=1M will help you.

`pkill -USR1 dd` may also work

it's way faster than dd, at least with all the settings/cards i've tried, maybe i'm not using it right

calculating how many times a person clicks "download" on their website times a guesstiamted number of cards a person would also give a good enough estimate without any telemetry