It looks like to me as some redditor got bad quality third party ink and blamed it on firmware. Some karma whores picked it up, as dogging on printer companies is sure way to gain some free updoots.

And now Louis Rossmann picked it up and the lie spread further.

We live in a post-truth society.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795 there are binary blobs in ventoy. idk if it can be trusted.

I was collabing on a game with an artists (godot + git) and they just used the github gui for windows and it worked great. They just made art in their program of choice and drag and drop into the folder. They clicked push button and it worked for a game jam.