Why the hell make it with a microprocessor when something simple like brightness levels and simple blinking patterns can be made with much simpler digital electronics without the need for any programming whatsoever leaving the whole hacking-issue out of the equation.
Why the hell would a flashlight need firmware?
Haha yeah I mistyped the years, it was supposed to be +10 and not +20…nevertheless these cards have been pulling at least 3-400W for the past 15 years.
My +10 year old GTX780 would pull 300W at full tilt, and it has only a ridiculous fraction of the compute power. The radeon 6990 would pull +400W… high end GPUs have been fairly power hungry for literally more than a decade.
Wow, that formatting is giving people cancer just from reading it…
Seriously how do they prevent people from asking for help?
Threats and violence for disobedience
Its a flashlight, not exactly a field in raging development.
Honestly I’m thinking it’s because it’s cheaper to have programmers doing simple FW programming for things than it is to have engineers design the required circuits. There are so many things with microprocessors in today that just does not actually need it but it was the lazy option. It opens stupid avoidable avenues of vulnerabilities.