Perfection is the enemy of good

Posted Oct 15, 2025 22:52 UTC (Wed) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: Perfection is the enemy of good by pizza
Parent article: The FSF's Librephone project

> With vanishingly rare exceptions, *all* non-trivial hardware produced over the past couple of decades has some sort of embedded processor running some sort of field-updateable firmware. Because it's the smart engineering (and increasingly, legal/regulatory) choice.

Not just one but dozens of processors if you look at SoCs of smartphone- or PC-size. That's why they are called "SoCs".