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Windows on New Macbook Pro Permanently Damages Speaker Due to Poor Drivers

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216 points aq3cn | 1 comments | 29 Nov 16 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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chx ◴[29 Nov 16 15:39 UTC] No.13063659[source]▶
The damage here is much bigger than a few laptops. We have been trying to educate, encourage people to go and try everything ;) saying you can't write software damaging your hardware. This sort of bug violates that trust and IMO it's a big deal.
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1. coldtea ◴[30 Nov 16 04:00 UTC] No.13068388[source]▶
That's a bizarro notion, and a moot point in any case, as very few people write audio drivers, which is the software in question.

Besides, you could always write software that damages your hardware. For example you could kill your hard disk or SSD quite easily with bad file using code (just recently Spotify had a bug that could kill an SSD in a short period of time by writing TB of data), and lots of other things besides.