Mastodawn

Neil Brown Jan 6, 2024

You know what would be nice?

An "open firmware" project, where people produce and share FOSS firmware for common household devices, replacing the manufacturer's firmware with a decrapified version.

A smart TV? Reflash it with FOSS firmware, which removes tracking, calls to the manufacturer's servers, and any Internet-connected services that you don't want?

A printer? It's now yours. No ink subscription, or need for an app to print remotely.

And so on.

A man can dream, eh.

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BinaryUnit

@neil i gladly bumped into tasmota recently which is open firmware for esp devices, so that is already something, but indeed it would be great to have a do-not-phone-home firmware for other devices

https://tasmota.github.io/docs/

Tasmota Documentation - Tasmota

Open source firmware for ESP devices with easy configuration using webUI, OTA updates, automation using timers or rules, expandability and entirely local control over MQTT, HTTP, serial or KNX.