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Nobody wants shit on their hardware. Imagine DRM on after market CPUs. It's already a disaster at the daughter board level. For example, look at this nonsense
by foxhop 5y ago
Nobody wants shit on their hardware. Imagine DRM on after market CPUs. It's already a disaster at the daughter board level.
For example, look at this nonsense I had to reverse engineer:
https://russell.ballestrini.net/how-to-reset-hp-ilo-lights-out-user-and-password-settings-with-ipmitools/ https://russell.ballestrini.net/how-to-reset-hp-ilo-lights-o...
- voakbasda 5y agoIndeed. This kind of anti-consumer shenanigan has pushed me firmly and permanently in the AMD camp. Maybe it is time to reevaluate x86 entirely. Is ARM ready to take over the world?
- pabs3 5y agoIf I had the money I'd go with OpenPOWER for now, even the firmware is open source (at least for POWER9, POWER10 is another matter).
- systemvoltage 5y agoCan we reel software into this philosophy? I want no shit on my software either. To me, software and hardware at some abstraction layer become the same. They're just products and services. If I purchase a movie, I want no DRM just as if I purchased a CPU.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoBut Revokatio Payola disapproves!
- omegalulw 5y ago> Nobody wants shit on their hardware. It's so annoying. On a similar note, DHCP implementations are messed up for one reason or another and I now can't watch 4K premium content from most providers except Netflix. They would force me to buy a 4K TV.