in my opinion, it is bad hardware design if it *can* be irreversibly damaged by software. there should be checks at the hardware level against that, as well as ways to factory-reset any piece of hardware that commercially ships.
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in my opinion, it is bad hardware design if it *can* be irreversibly damaged by software. there should be checks at the hardware level against that, as well as ways to factory-reset any piece of hardware that commercially ships.