• @teolan
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    1411 months ago

    What the hell!

    How did I understand that just now?

    • @raspberriesareyummy
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      011 months ago

      possibly because a “firm” is also a word for a business / company, so “firmware” as the chipset software coming from the firm that manufactures said chipset makes perfect sense. at least that’s why I never sought an alternate explanation - and I am not fully convinced OP is right, actually.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        But firmware doesn’t have to be from the firm that manufacturers said chipset. Third party firmware is a common thing.

        • @raspberriesareyummy
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          111 months ago

          see that’s something that makes perfect sense but that I wasn’t actually aware of… Sorry for the late reaction, lemmy.world had enough server problems that I didn’t see my notifications in > 2 weeks…