When I was starting my current job I still thought that planned obsolescence in consumer stuff was bad enough. Now I still very much think that, but enterprise hardware is worse, so much worse! It’s almost surprising, you’d think that this is serious gear, for serious people, therefore it should be easily serviceable and indestructible, but in reality it’s nothing but a front for a much more lucrative operation. Support contracts.

When I was starting my current job I still thought that planned obsolescence in consumer stuff was bad enough. Now I still very much think that, but enterprise hardware is worse, so much worse! It’s almost surprising, you’d think that this is serious gear, for serious people, therefore it should be easily serviceable and indestructible, but in reality it’s nothing but a front for a much more lucrative operation. Support contracts.

I finally got around to having fiber installed in my apartment about a week ago! There’s just one slight problem, the Funbox 7 (from here on now referred to as the Shitbox 7). I’m a bit of a weirdo, and I like to set my networks up in specific ways, so a device that does not have a bridge mode (except if you’re a business customer sigh) and has completely useless firewall settings, is certainly not ideal.

I finally got around to having fiber installed in my apartment about a week ago! There’s just one slight problem, the Funbox 7 (from here on now referred to as the Shitbox 7). I’m a bit of a weirdo, and I like to set my networks up in specific ways, so a device that does not have a bridge mode (except if you’re a business customer sigh) and has completely useless firewall settings, is certainly not ideal.

A couple weeks ago I was talking with someone on Reso about the bHaptics integration being broken for a while. There was a mod that fixed it, but was from the looks of it majorly vibecoded (with copilot as a “contributor” even), but it also worked in weird ways and introduced its own issues. That prompted me to make my own mod that simply replaces the broken library and tries to keep everything else unchanged, the results of that you can see here.