Apparently the Raspberry Pi camera has a DRM chip in it to stop anyone else from designing or producing third party cameras. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=149426 … WTF‽ I think I'm going to start calling it the Raspberry iPi. Why the hell is this garbage in an *educational* product?
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This is one thing I don't get amidst all this outrage. They're securing revenue... Which they use to produce troves of educational material, and support/sponsor existing FOSS projects? Is that evil? Also bearing in mind the core product is super low margin...
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Seeing how HATs can already have an EEPROM with device tree overlay on it this doesn't seem too far-fetched ...and since modules are now signed you could require a signature for the overlays too ...shit
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"The removable device contains the data for configuring pins and loading the correct driver when that device is attached, and I can think of literally no non-nefarious purpose for this" Of all the things to pick on, this is a weird one
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