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[–] 181 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Back in March this year, security engineer and modder Andy Nguyen started experimenting with running Linux on the PS5. After months of testing and improvements, he has finally released PS5-Linux

Math was never my strongest point, but something doesent add up here.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    Math was never my strongest point

    Think of it like a toddler.

    The first 9 months, it's not even an infant yet. Then boom, you get a baby. 6 months of development later you have a 6 month old toddler. But process started 15 months ago.

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    [–] 120 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5_Jailbreak/comments/1fhlyjt/guide_to_find_the_firmware_version_of_a_sealed/

    Based on this list, it looks like you have to be sitting on a 2022 or earlier non-updated PS5 to have a chance at the 4.51 or lower firmware to use this. A chance it'll open up to other firmwares and as said maybe there's a limited functionality 5.xx exploit on the horizon, but just a bit of reality before you get too excited.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Didn't the PS5 boot signing keys leak recently? The word when that happened was that it blew PS5 modding wide open in a way that couldn't be closed without new hardware, though I guess publishing anything that used Sony's key would have their lawyers after you real quick.

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    Have you ever? Let us know in the comments! We wanna hear from you!

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    [–] 74 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (24 children)

    Well gotta turn off auto updates immediately.

    Edit: by immediately I mean years ago, apparently.

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    [–] 49 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    If I install Linux on a PS5, can I use the Blu-ray drive as a PC optical drive to rip DVD's and shit?

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    This, this is why my PS5 has been offline and waiting for hacks'

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This is not even close to the reason that my PS5 has been offline, but it's super neat and probably means we're close to piracy.

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    I wonder how it compares to the steam machine.

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    Well, that's pretty exciting. My PS5 is already on the latest firmware though lol

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (13 children)

    Can we not, like... Factory reset these things to roll back to whatever was installed when it was purchased? 🤔

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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Thats called a downgrade attack and is explicitly blocked by most modern security models that are not a PC.

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    Is it?

    As a malicious actor or red-team player, I would want to get you on as old of an OS as I could in order to exploit a wider range of CVEs. Or in most cases, one would be hunting for a specific set of CVEs. Once I've got you on the version I want, I can then perform other attacks and ensure that they run.

    The iPhone, many Android phones, some network equipment, and game consoles all have eFuses that burn when you perform an update, and the specific number or pattern they burn in is used to determine the lowest OS version your device is allowed to be on in order to stop this from happening.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Most consoles, if not all, have electronic fuses that are embedded inside chips that they intentionally blow out with each firmware update that prevent them from rolling back to older versions.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I can't wait for bringus studios to release a video where he games on a PS5.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    He essentially did. He did that one build with one of those ps5 reject boards. Based off that I assumed the ps5 could run standard Linux but I haven't cared about consoles and modding in a very long time.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    With hardware prices being what they are is this actually a good deal?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    I would personally try to go for a BC-250 blade setup, less performance but roughly half the cost of a secondhand ps5 (in Aus at least) and still capable of modern gaming

    I suppose that also depends on time invested tinkering and sourcing components for the BC-250 like an ssd, enclosure and psu

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