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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 10 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.

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[-] jqubed@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

I am most intrigued by this concept of frustrated users crowdfunding pledges for bug bounties that bother them

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 24 points 10 months ago

New hardware manufacturer quality metric: Number of frustrated user pledges per time since market introduction.

[-] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Would a lot of people wanting to use the hardware but the drivers sucking be indicative of a good company or a bad company?

[-] Tempy@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

A bad company. Because they should be delivering a holistic product. But their hardware side knows their shit at least.

[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

As a quality metric, "bad company". If you can differentiate between hardware product and drivers, you can separate those metrics. But usually, and for most people, using the product also means using their drivers.

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