[azalemeth]

This effectively already exists. The Xbox One SOC apparently monitors its own voltage and shuts down / doesn't function if it falls out of spec [1] as part of a totally OTT suite of anti-engineer techniques.

As an aside, I hate all of this. If someone made an open console, I'd buy it in a second. I realise that's probably my computer running linux next to me, but still...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo

[michaelt]

Almost all microcontrollers have a feature like that - chiefly because at power-on the voltage rises gradually, and if it started running before there was a high enough voltage for it to run correctly you get a bunch of reliability issues.

[h2odragon]

> If someone made an open console,

Steam Deck?

[Eduard]

What is OTT?

[brokenmachine]

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