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Flashing NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX from Seeed Studio using WSL

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I had an opportunity to work with a reComputer J20 (based on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX), and one of the tasks I faced was reinstalling the OS because I killed an existing one 🙂

Although the best and recommended way is to use a laptop with installed Linux, I don’t have one, and in this article I will show my way of flashing this device from a Windows PC using WSL.

Disclaimer: Follow these steps at your own risk. It is easy to brick the device, and flashing always wipes all existing data.

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Considerations about changes in Time Zones in Kazakhstan and how to deal with it in Linux

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On the 00:00 1st of March 2024, Kazakhstan changes the clocks to a single time zone UTC +5 for the whole country.  It will affect two time zones: Asia/Almaty and Asia/Qostanay, which are in UTC +6 and need to be adjusted.

And the question may arise – what to do?

As this blog is more about Virtualization, one thing to mention: there are not many problems. Most hypervisors work in the UTC +0 time zone, and the time zone should be correct inside the Guest Virtual Machines.

Many people ask: Will the NTP server move my clock back for an hour? The answer is no. NTP servers work in the UTC +0. And on the 1st of March, they won’t move your clock backward.

In this article, we will look briefly at Linux systems and how to change the time.

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