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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by hannob on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:59AM (#37393591)
That's great for the 0,1% of users who will do that. As said: I'm all for it. But the problem is the other 99,9%.
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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by fallingknife on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @04:13PM (#37397102)
Seriously. I'm a SWE and I would throw out a TV and get a new one before spending hours minimum figuring out how to switch the firmware to a open source version.
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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by weberer on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:28PM (#37398009)
Because right now we have to actually perform some exploit to run custom firmware most of the time. What if there were just a toggle in the settings menu for which repo to look at?
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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by fallingknife on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @07:33PM (#37399293)
Probably not, honestly. I get paid to do things like manage dependencies, and I'm not trying to do it at home. If this was one and done, just click a button and forget about it again, then maybe, but if I have to do things like think about what model number I have, and is it compatible with this version of the firmware, then no way.
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