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Idk your background but this seems like a good time for a car metaphor:
“I just got this passenger side rear door to a 2006 Tahoe for super cheap and I want to make use of it so it doesn’t go to waste. The Chevy forums have some information on what models of the same year might mount it and what three letter codes correspond to the options on my door but nothing useful about mounting it to newer models. How can I make use of this thing?”
The Jetson boards are development kits intended for prototyping iot and edge ai devices. You could use your jetson board to prototype or even implement an edge AI device. Machine vision is a phenomenal way to use these smaller thingies like the old coral tpu.
Dev kits are often shipped with limited support and intended to provide the bare minimum to prove to an engineer that a particular chip or platform will work to some application. The rest is left up to the customer.
You don’t have an nvidia branded raspberry pi, you have the thing they send to palantirs hired geeks so they can map out the precise extent to which the panopticon can be weaponized. You could probably use it to sort and catalogue pictures of your pets and family.
I understand fully. When I stumbled upon it, I thought it was just their RPi clone with more powerful hardware (it's even GPIO compatible). At that point I didn't have much time to reaseach to what extent it was supported and just assumed at least some general functionallity since it came with Ubuntu and not some random embeded OS. I should have known better, but I do now.
What drew me to it was not the AI stuff, but rather the premise of a decent CPU and GPU package in a small form factor, ideal as an HTPC. And that it was just 7€. You can't buy anything for that much money, even less a whole ass PC.
If you follow the git instructions linked in another thread, make sure to slowly move through major version numbers. You most likely will not be able to jump straight to 25 and will need to step through major versions to figure out what changed and how to fix it.
Once you can make sure newer packages will work with the nonstandard gpu you’ll have some chance of doing htpc stuff.