Hector Martin

That post speaks of 1.2 million installs of The Homebrew Channel, but I think these days we're closer to 10 million. Still zero bricks. We had one near miss, which was saved by the many layers of safety-in-depth I had built in, based on the principles I wrote about there.

Thankfully the Apple Silicon macs are largely brick-proof*, though restoring them currently requires another Mac. Making this work from Linux is also a project goal. * I'm sure you can if you try hard enough, and I'll try hard to never go anywhere near there, of course.

One of the reasons why we wrote our own flashing code for Wii bootloader flashing is because I took one look at Nintendo's (BroadOn's?) existing API for it, and determined it was completely unfit for purpose and dangerous.

It is now well documented that they later bricked a non-trivial fraction of Wiis worldwide, whether they had BootMii or not, when they pushed a dummy bootloader update whose only purpose was to overwrite our installed version (but which unconditionally applied to everyone).