Sure, but that requires a skilled engineer to own the embroidery machine, and have sufficient free time and interest to devote to reverse engineering the embroidery machine. The overlap of skills and expertise there is vanishingly small for niche products, which, most discontinued products are. Any reduction in e-waste and user empowerment is a cause to be celebrated. The catalyst for GNU was not being able to fix printer drivers. For all its evils and ills, I am so happy to see useless objects essentially being “repaired” by normal people. Software are the world, but now that the world can make its own software it, for the time being, tips the balance back in favor of the common man.

Its odd how excited people are by this. It's software engineers solving a problem created by software engineers (in the most expensive and inefficient way possible). Machine control software doesn't need a cloud subscription in the first place.

With many fundamental real problems in the world - resource shortage, pollution, wealth inequality, disease. Watching a circle jerk about AI "fixing" an artificially created non-problem is just bizarre and a waste of resources.