Hector Martin

there's "no user serviceable parts inside" and then there's "I've spent ten minutes with a dremel to remove the case and the guts are in a metal can that is soldered to the PCB and has no less than 80 (eighty) spot welds"

and by "metal can" I mean not one of those flimsy router shields that pop off if you glance at them angrily but almost a millimeter of stainless steel

0 hours: "I think I can just plug it and it'll work" 6 hours: "I'll be happy if I can get it functional with a kernel patch" 10 hours: "well, running natively is a lost cause, but I think I can run it in a macOS VM" 24 hours: "if I'm lucky, I can dremel it open and dump firmware"

I have considered using a plasma cutter. I am covered in plastic and steel dust from top to bottom and this device isn't even halfway open. There's like twenty more minutes of abrasive cutting until it yieldshttps://twitter.com/promit_roy/status/1032112291897122816 …

in case you want to know whether it's filled to the brim with potting compound inside the metal can, the answer is "hell yes"