• artyom@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    “The rest of the industry” is an extremely large generalization. Some of them are nearly as bad, many of them are not.

    No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo). No one else puts in their contracts that their manufacturers can’t sell components to anyone else. No one else serializes components so that you can’t swap parts from a donor board. I could go on.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      5 hours ago

      No one else invents new screws to prevent access (except Nintendo).

      Like, on gamepads? I have multiple sets of security bits that I bought just to get required bits to open gamepads, and I’ve never owned a Nintendo gamepad.

      • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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        5 hours ago

        Security bits are in use all over the place. They sell them at harbor freight. Not really specialized.