On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:48:36AM +0300, Alexander Ploumistos wrote:
> That would require people volunteering to potentially brick their
> machines in order to test the updates. If something goes wrong, the
> equipment (and the knowledge) necessary to reprogram a chip is rather
> scarce. I'm afraid the way forward is to _convince_ vendors to make
> use of the service, starting with those who already have test
> accounts.

I've been debating contributing some code to fwupd to handle several 
different vendors' families of printers, but there's a snowball's chance 
in hell that said vendors will ever embrace lvfs given that they 
steadfastly refuse to publicly acknowledge that Linux exists, despite 
invariably selling a Linux-based print server appliance of some sort.

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy                        pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
Dowling Park, FL                      speachy (libra.chat)

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