and this is the article on hacking it

I remember reading about a specific dishwasher brand that uses proprietary cartridge for the soap. It uses smartcard to tell how many wash cycle left so you can’t refill it.

The article was about how to hack that smartcard so you can refill it.

a regular printer with A5 feed would do

hell yeah!

This doesn’t mean anything. The question refers to the kernel version running.

I don’t get it.

They only say it’s free market when it’s in their favor.