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Frustrated users crowdfund a $2,000 fix for Lenovo Legion ‘speakers not working properly’ error — bug bounty posted, coder wins the cash by fixing complex audio annoyance in just a month (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/opensource@programming.dev
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Six folks pledged lumps of cash to make it happen.

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[–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

I am most intrigued by this concept of frustrated users crowdfunding pledges for bug bounties that bother them

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  • [–] 24 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    New hardware manufacturer quality metric: Number of frustrated user pledges per time since market introduction.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Would a lot of people wanting to use the hardware but the drivers sucking be indicative of a good company or a bad company?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    As a quality metric, "bad company". If you can differentiate between hardware product and drivers, you can separate those metrics. But usually, and for most people, using the product also means using their drivers.

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