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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 minutes ago

Yes, this is what I got excited about upon hearing about the recent Adobe "open sourcing."

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)

It would be amazing if this could bootstrap RISCV drivers

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 minutes ago

Or just drivers for existing abandoned but perfectly functional Qualcomm SoCs.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 44 minutes ago

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.