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It is quite pointless to fight hardware vendors for FOSS support if they don't want to and you don't have to. Why spend effort to crack their platform when you

It is quite pointless to fight hardware vendors for FOSS support if they don't want to and you don't have to. Why spend effort to crack their platform when you can buy from competitors, which you do a disservice for fixing Samsungs TVs. Then again I don't know if there are any 'dumb' or open software competitor TVs left on the market ...

turminal 5y ago
The same argument applies to M1 and people still (successfully) reverse engineer them.
- rightbyte 5y ago
  Sure, but it is a high profile target versus keeping up with reverse engineer TV model after TV model.
prepend 5y ago
It works quite well for WiFi router hardware.