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Spotify won’t open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process (arstechnica.com)
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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 138 points 9 months ago (19 children)

They might not need to open-source it: hackers have found ways of jailbreaking the installed Linux and are stepping up efforts for making it reusable. It’s a rather feeble SoC, so there won’t be a huge number of applications for it, but there will be some.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The comment over on hackaday pointing to it being bricked possibly being down to font licensing is funny if true

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