Vendors releasing proprietary drivers and software for their hardware should probably just opensource it. It'll save the world precious compute. If they don't, many customers will waste that tasking their LLMs to reverse engineer their crap.

I recently upgraded my PC and bought a case with a segmented display. Required a windows driver to work. I also bought a CPU liquid cooler with a display on it. Also required a windows app.

I threw about 30 bucks in tokens and now I have linux ports for both and with every added every feature I could come up with.

Now any weird or obscure piece of hardware I have that has been defunct for lack of software support has been getting the same treatment.

I'm almost afraid to post about the various weird-cheap hardware I'm using now because the LLMs are setting up the cross compile environments and other PITA details that I didn't have the time for in the past. I stuck with Raspberry Pi like a lot of people, and now you can't buy a Pi Zero 2W for $15 except when the blue moon is on a Tuesday - don't want that to happen to my newfound accessible toys.

I had issues with a LTE modem in an old Toughpad that wouldn't work under Win11 but would under Win8. I gave it to GPT-5.5 and it built a new driver for Win10 that worked properly, using the datasheets for the modem from the manufacturer.