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That this makes no sense is the whole point. The goal is to show how little sense this makes

You americans are weird, ngl

But you do you guys. Hell, I would only benefit if that works, big corp mostly looks at USA and less on EU when deciding on their policies/strategy. If USA mandate open hardware, rest will follow

If you’re worried about credibility

Not really anymore. (considering Louis Rossman behind it)

My harsh comment strictly regarding this part:

but they are not required to release the code to the public

Again, it make no sense to pay this theoretical person (well, I wouldn’t, hence I won’t donate), cause there actually no benefit to anyone.

The point of all this is to be able to demonstrate to legislators that the DMCA needs to be fixed

Well, then why that money used for this charity event and not for cause mentioned above? “yeah, we know how to jailbrake your console, take that sony! Oh, but don’t worry, we won’t release this hack nor collaborate in any way to provide this feature to other people”

That being said I’m not deaf and yeah, I can understand legal side of thing. Won’t make it less annoying tho.

let me run steam on it

This. Actually one of the reasons why Valve didn’t sell GabeCube at loss or even at 0 markup, they prices it fairly well (compared to other prebuilds). Otherwise it would be an amazing deal - cheap and small prebuild desktop PC.

Same with PS5, if they allowed to install linux, people would start buying their consoles and *gasps in horror* - use device as they please, which means not buying games from their overpriced store. It actually already happened before with PS3, I recall article that some even used it for making a cluster essentially DIY’ing super computer. I doubt people would do the same with PS5 and realistically, they not even selling this console at loss, so they absolutely wouldn’t lost anything, but like, it’s Sony we are talking about.

I wanted to donate and decided to check if site credible enough (never heard about it before).

There an interesting discussion on reddit about this one: those who will claim reward not required to release any proof/findings/code to public. They could just claim reward and we will get nothing.

So yeah, nah, I’m not donating to this scam.

I recently bought BC250 (same hardware as in PS5) and unlocked 40CU (by default on this board only 20 available, on PS5 - 38CU) — it’s actually pretty good machine. Alto, idle power consumption quite high (power saving features doesn’t work). The fact that sony just gatekeeps this hardware is insane. And in a year or two, when they release ps6, this one will become a ewaste, even tho with 16gb of ram it still pretty capable machine.

You probably joking, but that actually a thing in China and was a thing in USSR