Comment by ziofill
10 hours ago
Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.
10 hours ago
Perhaps I’m daydreaming, but maybe some vendors will accept this new reality and begin just selling the hardware without locking users in. Perhaps they’ll even make it easier for users to truly own their products.
No, they will just encrypt firmware, add more signature verifications and lock devices to accounts in order to complicate reuse, increase sales and produce more ewaste.
I agree, but like many others I'm willing to pay a fair price for that freedom and ownership, and I believe there is a customer base to be captured. And in the end there's a cost for a company to put all of those locks in place, which they could simply avoid.
DIY kits have been a thing... forever? There's lots of open source hardware out there, and some you can even buy if you demand commercial access.