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It's insane what these people do. They're rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It's an insane piece of engineering and it's incredible that it's still sending useful data.
I'd love to see what their test environments are like. You can't test everything, but they can certainly test some things. A raspberry pi has more software capability.
They have a second probe in the shop to test. Thankfully.