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minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·10 hours ago…oh? I thought every console used this kind of tech as well.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 hours agoSo are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.
minus-squareSolSerkonos@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·9 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.
…oh? I thought every console used this kind of tech as well.
So are console sold with the possibility of changing the OS, only to have that option removed later? There was some issue with PS3, but apart from that I never heard about it.
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.