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Right-to-repair is now the law in California
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Modern consoles generally can't be modchipped at all... The switch is an exception. And a donor board can be pulled from another console.
Modchips are also useful for freeing the hardware and running whatever code you like on it, not just free gamez.
I see where you're coming from, but it doesn't track.