Hello anybody know how to flash debian to EMMC on an Orange Pi 3G IOT B?

I can't seem to get it to work. I always get these errors in the terminal when running the spi flash tool that they recommend:

 Connecting to BROM...

    
Scanning USB port...
Search usb, timeout set as 3600000 ms


  

and then eventually an S_TIMEOUT. I think my thinkpad is not even detecting the orange pi at all through usb. Anybody have experience with this. The official documentation is really bad. I also seem to get this on startup of the flash tool:

 QMetaObject::connectSlotsByName: No matching signal for on_pushButton_browser_clicked()

    
QThread::setPriority: Cannot set priority, thread is not running
"05-14-2024"
QObject::moveToThread: Cannot move objects with a parent