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		rightbyte on Aug 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South Af... It is quite pointless to fight hardware vendors for FOSS support if they don't want to and you don't have to. Why spend effort to crack their platform when you can buy from competitors, which you do a disservice for fixing Samsungs TVs. Then again I don't know if there are any 'dumb' or open software competitor TVs left on the market ...

turminal on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

The same argument applies to M1 and people still (successfully) reverse engineer them.

rightbyte on Aug 24, 2021 | | [–]

Sure, but it is a high profile target versus keeping up with reverse engineer TV model after TV model.

prepend on Aug 24, 2021 | [–]

It works quite well for WiFi router hardware.

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