alt Hacker NewsYeah whatever. I abandoned the "official crap" when they purged legit pentesting tools and silenced loads others. Momentum and extreme were so much better, and didn't play stupid games. They included everything.
And if you mention ANY of the alternate firmwares on their discord, and you get banned. Just fuck'em.
They may have created good hardware, but their software and discord community just sucked.
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What is the current go-to unofficial firmware? Mine had extreme but I think that one’s dead?
> mention ANY of the alternate firmwares on their discord, and you get banned
Does it surprise you that a Russian product team would use these tactics?
I can understand why that happened at least remotely. If you do all those things they refused 'officially', it might be easier for stupid government idiots to paint it as a dangerous illegal tool.
Adding the necessary hardware while refusing to support arbitrarily iLLegAl things is the best of both worlds.
are there any chinese knock offs of the hardware? i've yet to find something that integrates all the features this well
Given they’ve had several skirmishes with customs and law enforcement agencies around the world, this always struck me as similar to the “don’t talk about installing retail Switch games on the Switch modding Discord” type of deal - everyone knows you can do that, but allowing mentions in official channels opens us to liability and causes nothing but headaches for both us and for customers, so if you’re going to do that, you need to talk about it somewhere else. I freely admit that’s an assumption on my part, though, and I don’t know if there’s something uglier there…?