Well, a good chunk of my day has been spent on what was supposed to take minutes... here's the rundown

every time, i get stuck while flashing the root file system (freezing, timing out, or error message)

i seemingly followed all of the steps and troubleshoots, and repeated them, no such luck. i would not count it out that i still messed one of them up, but does anyone have any ideas?

on a side note while i am posting something, anyone know if android bluetooth keyboards play nicely with this ubuntu? i would guess not