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Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case

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codedokode ◴[12 Dec 25 17:38 UTC] No.46246465[source]▶
In my opinion, every manufacturer of a programmable device should not be allowed to prevent the buyer from reprogramming it.
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IshKebab ◴[12 Dec 25 19:44 UTC] No.46247960[source]▶
I agree, with maybe minor exceptions. It's probably reasonable that radio hardware can't trivially be reprogrammed to exceed regulated power limits. Or for stuff that is extremely safety critical like pacemakers (though I think for those things it should be mandatory to share source code).
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1. laggyluke ◴[13 Dec 25 07:39 UTC] No.46252838[source]▶
> It's probably reasonable that radio hardware can't trivially be reprogrammed to exceed regulated power limits.

https://github.com/meshtastic/firmware/blob/develop/src/mesh...

The true limits are imposed by the hardware, not the software, as it should be!