Don't worry...

We also have a brewing electricity crisis and not long before the classic console crisis.

The same reason as to why have a fully foss vs closed sauce operating system. The main OS is just one thing, but lots of bits run their code ("OS") too, like BIOS, on-CPU-low-level-code, etc - networking & storage firmware is also important to have some control over ("be yours bcs you bought it"), otherwise you have to just trust what the megacorp said it does & does not do (+security).

I read the article and I still don't understand why?

😮

To a degree that's the story of modern console hacking - one dedicated fan trying to learn the most about their favorite game whose discoveries end up becoming foundations for community projects as a whole.

(See PS4 emulation and Bloodbourne)

This sounds like a really cool story. Where can I read more about the Pokemon dataming venture kicking off the whole Switch CFW scene?

It's geared towards ethical/white hat hacking, in those cases it doesn't really matter that it does

And if you do want to use it for not those cases, a sticker is a simple fast solution lmao

Putting 'Hackkey' and a pirate skull logo on it defeats the whole purpose of, you know, actually hacking.