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Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support
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Could this one day get us a second life for our echo flex units? They are phenomenal pieces of hardware.
Meta portal TV are also excellent hardware units discarded by its mothership and ripe for reuse. They were so mired by controversy but the TV unit hardware was really great.
You'll be playing doom on your toothbrush in no time.
But yah maybe. There are mountains of "smart" hardware that demanded cloud, cloud went away, suddenly a brick. I'd love to wire some of that up and give Claude a shot at jail breaking and flashing that kinda thing.