Same, but I donāt have an easy to make me feel guiltyā¦ 
At least the RDV4 is thinner and sexier that the easy so Iām not complaining.
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Amal is right with regards to this. Still, having companies release documentation for developing new firmware for abandoned devices would be nice but thatās often protected under NDAs soā¦
There likely are laws like this. I can see maybe the EU enacting some consumer protection stuff which requires providers guaranteeing services for a period.
The issue is enforceability. Letās assume some small civil unrest nation with no military and no economic power enacts a protection law (clearly because the warlord wants to access 5G), how is that going to be enforced?
If the company providing the service has no assets in country to be seized for exampleā¦
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6 posts were merged into an existing topic: Show off your Homelab! 
when i was into DDWRT (i think its the same now right? or is that Tomato< ive been out of that space for a while) it was one of three big ones, Linksys, TP-Link, and Trendnet (Buffalo was huge but ended up going away i think). all 3 were pretty inexpensive so i was able to find them used pretty easily.
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Donāt forget Carās now too.
I must have mandela shifted because i remember some type of consumer protection law that was all the talk that restricted things like this.
Maybe it was upcoming in certain right to repair or right to own bills.
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Well, there you goā¦
Not fully healed but already really bright 
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Finally got something half decent out of Elonās AI:
I can totally see myself hanging out by a river like thatā¦
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If youāre waterproof
Imagine getting wet and not being waterproof
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Nice pair of vents you got there
Off course Iāll be, itād get annoying pretty quickly otherwiseā¦
Those are present on most Gundam designs. Although the AI generated ones look a bit weird.
Hopefully you wonāt get disappointed if I end up omitting those.
Iāll settle for two big rotary knobs that light up when you spin them hard enough. No less.
Speaking of which, this is awesome:
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I see that you want to twiddle my knobsā¦
Why is there no interest in the V-Fin and +45 -45 polarisation?
:robot_gundam:
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This is so crazyā¦ itās along the same lines as repeater stickers and PCB antenna design itself because itās coils on PCBs.
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Iāve been following his work on this for a couple years now. He does a lot of PCB design that is very out of the normal.
He tried making a self assembling PCB hot plate. Which I thought was absolutely genius.
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You own the hardware, but not the software.
By using the software you agree to allow the owner to said software to do what they want.
You can not extract a firmware and share it online, nor use it in any commercial capacity because you do not own it. The only legal way to extract a firmware and share some sections is if you are doing it under the umbrella of security research.
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He started with the FelxAR a flexible actuator with a coil on a flex pcb https://microbots.io/
FlexARā¦ That sound a lot like a DT productā¦ 
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I completely understand their argument, but itās still a questionable practice in my opinion. I mean, what if I was like hey, you own your implant but the software in it is mine and I decided to broadcast a signal from my mystery drones flying over various US cities to communicate with the hardware you own in order to deactivate my software inside your hardware.
Technically legally sound but still questionable because at the end of the day you purchased a thing that does a thing regardless of any external services I may or may not provideā¦ and yet I can still be like ānopeā and make that thing you purchased stop working or work in a different way which was not what you purchased. Imagine a shovel not digging anymore because I decided the attachment software keeping the head affixed to the handle wasnāt worth maintaining and so I just decided to deactivate all shovels.
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To me it sounds like a floppy rifle.
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