Are we REALLY helping the community?
Much like many people on these forums, I have hacked consoles. Hacked xbox 1, hacked Wii, couple of hacked PSPs. And between those include hard mods and soft mods. So I think its safe to say although I don't have the coding knowledge to start reverse engineering some Sony code, I know at least enough to understand what I'm doing and get by safely.
Well, I like to share my knowledge because it's the only way I can really contribute to the scene. Because I can't sit down and code stuff or hack stuff myself, I help others benefit from the work the kind scene coders do. I write tutorials and answer questions. I've hacked friend's consoles and had strangers find me as well. Hell, one guy even mailed me his PSP from the Middle East and I hacked it and mailed it back.
But these days I'm starting to think we are helping TOO much. We are making things TOO easy for other people that now the whole homebrew scene is changing. This stuff started out as an adult thing. Older people were the ones hacking this stuff and spreading it around, and because of the complexity was only carried out by other adults. Now we've got a bunch of pre-teens scowering the internet looking for the quickest and easiest methods to do this 'cool stuff' on their psp's without any real knowledge of what exactly they're doing and the implications of it. And because of this, we've got even more kids all over the net trying to find directions on how to fix stuff because they didn't understand what they were doing and can't fix what went wrong.
So what do we do? Do we keep spoon feeding the community?
About 2 noob posts away from going ape sh*t