Tell that to display drivers that have caused video cards to fry.

Atleast learn the basics of computer hardware, and software, before you start trying to tell others about "reality". Yes, software can, and quite often does, cause damage to hardware.

"at least learn the basics..."

There is some advice for yourself.

"Display drivers that have caused video cards to fry." You claim software "fries the video card." Then claim I need to learn the basics.

Software does not damage hardware. If there is a faulty driver and the safeguards fail, the subsequent rise in temperature due to the work of the graphics processors result in "fried" hardware. It is the result of the software failure, but it is not the software itself.

But that isn't even relevent since you completely ignored the context in which the statement was made: "DESTROY YOUR PS4 ENTIRELY."

Do you have some knowledge that the entire computing world would like to know about (especially SONY) since this software you are talking about can ENTIRELY DESTROY HARDWARE? Write your PhD Thesis on it. It would be incredible to see code actually change the structure of a piece of hardware.

You may even win a Nobel.

you can do all kind of fun stuff if you can get root access to a unix based machine like the PS4

Doesn't matter if stock is low if your sending it directly to Sony for a replacement.

Meh I don't have too much free time anyway so buying it would be throwing away money....

That's not really a good sell for the system, lol, an indie game that's been out on PC already. I kind of regret getting my PS4 so early, with so many features missing, and alot not working properly. A main annoyance is that I can't use it as a media server like my PS3 and stream from my PC. Alot of these things it seems they did to strengthen their Music and Video Unlimited services, which is kind of shady, especially when we now must pay to play retail games online.

Nothing against PS+, I own it and feel it's a great value, but I hate when people say you get games free. You aren't getting anything free, PS+ is a paid service that lets you download and keep games while you remain with the service. You aren't getting anything free. That being said, it is still worth it to stay with PS+. I don't like how they are BSing about the mp3 playback and media server though. It's obviously not because they couldn't focus time on it, because they took time to not allow music cd playback to begin with, so they were being counter productive toward that function from the start. Just be honest Sony, say you did it to promote your paid services to the fullest, and that's why you are being so quiet about when it'll be patched back in, you want to get as many people with Music and Video Unlimited before you add the function. Then we probably still won't be able to listen to our own music while playing games unless we use Music Unlimited, and they'll say some nonsense about why it can't work.

I like everything Sony is doing with courting new devs and working with indies and all that good stuff, Mark Cerny being in charge of the hardware development was genius and the higher ups allowing that to happen was amazing. That's not something that usually happens when you have the big money men on top, it seems very unusual.

They just need to continue with the Utopia vision they painted for us, and stop with this muddy circle in the middle with all the ridiculous stuff missing(media server, mp3 playback, Youtube app and uploading). Fix the share function with saving videos properly. Get the patches out faster, the OS is still basically a beta at work.