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I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

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194 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 11:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.306s | source
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pjc50 ◴[22 Sep 25 10:40 UTC] No.45331551[source]▶
See recently: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

I get the impression that, in hardware companies, software is often not taken very seriously, when it can cripple the user experience for trivial bugs. It's also annoying that it's "proprietary" rather than open source, when hundreds of models will be using the same chipset in the same way. It's not a competitive advantage, the sleep code, it can only be a disadvantage if it's done badly.

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bsder ◴[22 Sep 25 22:46 UTC] No.45340563[source]▶
A) Yet another example of why state machines need support directly in programming languages.

B) Look at salary for software engineer in semiconductor company then look at salary for software engineer at FAANG. Then ask where all the decent programmers are going to go.

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1. Charon77 ◴[23 Sep 25 01:22 UTC] No.45341768[source]▶
B)

This. I really wish I could be workikg in hardware, but the salary incentive is just there. Now I am stuck doing backend job to afford life and my low level and hardware hobby (reverse engineering games and firmwares, emulator, fpga stuffs), things that are magnitudes harder than making an api that put stuffs in DB and kafka