• mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk
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    8 months ago

    What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware? Also, they could be made so that there’s a simple API (like a serial device exposed via USB) and apps for Win/macOS/Linux to update the label. But I guess the demand was never there.

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      8 months ago

      What makes you think there’s no way of updating the firmware?

      I don’t know, but the amount of USB drives I’ve seen with a readily identifiable serial or jtag port and API documentation is exactly zero. 😉

      I think most of them were one-and-done, as in, code/hardware was designed once, and never iterated on again, at least not for devices already in the field.