By “people”, I just mean my friends and a bunch of other jailbreakers on YouTube, but whatever. I have a few friends. One is a trans girl, which I mention because apparently it’s common for trans women to love tech, and the other two are genderfluid AFAB. Well, anyway, I prefer new electronics that you can do a lot more stuff with and I don’t understand the hype on using and blogging on a 10 to 18-year-old electronic device?
For myself, it’s gaming consoles that I already own. Why go for the brand new when the things I already own not only still work - but have more functionality than they ever did before thanks to their respective modding scenes?
Hell, just in 2025 the Xbox 360 got it’s first software exploit that works on all models - which was thought to be basically impossible outside of very limited scenarios like the King Kong Exploit…
Forget soldering, forget RGH and JTAG - you can now have an almost cold-boot modded 360 with just a USB and 30-60 minutes of your time (and that’s not even counting the full cold-boot exploit teased by Grim Doomer on twitter).
If you’ve got the right console, you could be sitting on a goldmine of fun right now and never know it until you try.