Beep@lemmus.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 hours agoOnePlus update blocks downgrades and custom ROMs by blowing a fuseconsumerrights.wikiexternal-linkmessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1402arrow-down13
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minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·17 hours agoOoooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches. But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·7 hours ago consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches. Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
minus-squareGoodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoAnticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)
Ooooh, okay, now I understand. I was referring to the way modern consoles blow a fuse with each new patch so you can’t load older patches.
But yeah, the PS3 removed the ability to boot Linux which it was explicitly advertised to have and it was a huge thing at the time.
Admittedly I was unaware of this, but for consoles it can have a real functional purpose as part of the protection against cheating.
Anticheat should be handled by the games, not the console (unless the games are produced by the console manufacturer)