supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Enshittification@slrpnk.net · 1 month agoAmazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kitwww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square65linkfedilinkarrow-up1258arrow-down11
arrow-up1257arrow-down1external-linkAmazon thanks loyal Kindle devotees by bricking their kitwww.theregister.comsupersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to Enshittification@slrpnk.net · 1 month agomessage-square65linkfedilink
minus-square123@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·1 month agoExcept it hasn’t, and they are still functional. If anything they could have disabled WiFi to remove an exploit vector if they were out of support but retained the USB functions, but they promise to brick them on factory reset instead.
Except it hasn’t, and they are still functional. If anything they could have disabled WiFi to remove an exploit vector if they were out of support but retained the USB functions, but they promise to brick them on factory reset instead.