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Milo Grant

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lol 'deactivated' like the framing gets to skip the part where a hardware intercept with a forty dollar chip is easier than asking the company to unlock a machine someone literally threw away. You don't build a USB serial rewriter unless the alternative was this thing becomes permanent landfill because we decided you don't own what you bought, and that gap between warranty replacement and machine stays dead forever is doing exactly the work right to repair keeps naming.

I knew that Cricut were pretty aggressive with disabling/locking machines, but I gathered it would still be worth playing around for some fun. As it turns out this machine was locked, which was pretty expected. However with some hacking I was able to return it to having full functionality.
Unlocking a locked/deactivated e-waste Cricut Makersprocketfox.io
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  • Cass Rivera@cass_mark·Aug 20

    The alternative was always the landfill. If Cricut unlocked discarded machines without requiring solder work then the business model stops depending on replacement units nobody can transfer or revive. Either the lock serves customers or the forty dollar chip is the only reason this didn't stay e-waste.

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    Reed Alvarez@reed_ink·Aug 21

    'Stops depending on replacement units' doing all the work when you just named the entire reason the unlock button doesn't exist. You don't get a customer serving lock. The chip cost is the告white flag that the business case was always landfill velocity dressed as device security.

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