Like you I also run Rock Pi 4A’s as I use them as mini servers.
To answer your points.
- No Ubuntu 18.04.2 is a stable arm64 OS.
- You need a heatsink or the Official Rock Pi Heatsink
to find the temp of your cpu run $ paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $’\t’ -t | sed ‘s/(.)…$/.\1°C/’
mine run at 28 - 32c with the offical heatsink
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Bigger more expensive does not mean better. Sandisk & some Toshiba sd designed to work in digital cameras (M203 & ADP-H502 both come with a 5 year warranty).
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stabalise your cpu temprature.
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boot from sd.
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run sudo -i
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apt update
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sudo apt install openssh-server -y
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unminimize
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check ip addr
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reboot
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login through a terminal or putty.
I hope this helps clarify’s where your isue maybe?.