Yeah, fuck hacking right? Who could possibly do that anyways?

Who would ever flash alternate firmware on their wifi routers?! Or do it for someone else, like family members?

Linux being opensource helped people alot who werent engineers. Its for the benefit of opensource devs who can make software for normal people to use

Yes. Like with Tuya devices (tasmota) or the WRT-54G two decades ago.

Only takes one person to create the new firmware. Everyone else can follow whatever steps are needed to use it.

Who is everyone? Are you talking about people with familiarity with tech and hacking? Most people don't know how to write a URL in the browser.

I'm not even sure what you're complaining about here.

Everyone here thinks that everyone="all hacking-experienced people", where I mean everyone is the whole world. MOST people are not going to hack their device.

How would you like Bose to solve this issue, If open sourcing the firmware doesn't make cut it?

Functionality should work offline also.

I don’t care if most people aren’t going to do that. The company flat out shouldn’t be permitted to brick a device they already sold you, and this is a viable alternative.

And therefore nobody would be allowed to?

Eh, even if it just means that someone can offer a 3rd-party smartphone app to control them, it's a pretty big win versus the normal end-of-life support story

People with hot takes that didn't even bother to read the article.

Who's losing here?