I mean this is pretty standard in all industries regardless of whether it's a software flaw or a physical flaw in any other kind of product. What's the likelihood of a vacuum manufacturer replacing a part in a 15 year old product that had a 1 year warrantee even if it's a safety issue? Sure the delivery and installation is cheaper with software, but the engineering and development isn't, especially if the environment for building it has to be recreated.
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Perfect time for users to buy something that isn't D-Link then innit.
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A bunch of juvenile D-Linkuents. Get it? D-Link? Nevermind....
but does it run openwrt?
e: no it doesn't, only one model had half-baked image made and available for download from some sketchy forum post made in 2014
I moved to an OPNsense router a couple of years ago and I’ve never looked back. Hell is shitty consumer routers.
Do you have any recommendations on OPNSense routers?
Oh man, it’s a nightmare and I just happened to be lucky. I ended up buying one of those passively cooled router-esque N100 boxes out of China (AliExpress) and while it was a total punt it turned out to be a great experience, and their customer service was actually good too.
Kingdel was the make/vendor and it’s been rock solid.
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No mercy from Low Level.
I watched and enjoyed that one yesterday, and he's bang on the money. People here are saying "well it's EoL" but that means it's got all the way through development and its full lifetime with such a prominent set of bugs.
I don't think I'll be buying D-Link if that's what supported means.
Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.
When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid... I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.
It's certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.
Why do they say they’re prohibited to provide support? That a bad translation?