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22 pointsjayben3 comments

On a related note: Does FTDI still write driver malware? They've been caught with their pants twice. There is no way in hell I'm buying their ICs again.

Yup. FTDI is the only chip maker that I avoid out of principle. They have been blatantly and unapologetically abusive.

Their devices are also overpriced to a degree borders on comical, so they're not hard to avoid. For the price of their USB-UART chips you can get a top-tier microcontroller that can do USB-UART easily as fast, and still have plenty of capacity to spare.

Too bad there is no GPIO example.

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