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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com)

submitted 5 days ago by cadekat@pawb.social to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

Sure, but they wouldnt exist without that. Making micro batches of specialized hardware is not profitable at all. If they sold more than a few thousand devices per model then i would care, but meanwhile big manufacturers get away with so much worse.