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It doesn't matter whether it's shareholders or creditors in charge IMO. Neither party have your interests in mind.

If you don't have the firmware source and an unlocked bootloader you're only renting the device.

That might work for the average HN user that already has a homelab cluster with a dozen kubernetes services running, but for the average joe it might as well be dead.

This is an old argument. FLOSS firmware allows consumer to pay to any external company to fix the device, thus breaking the artificial monopoly of proprietary software.

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