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[–] [email protected] 54 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

all hardware is going to EOL at some point, and at that point, it isn't going to keep getting updates

EOLing hardware should be handled in a better way

Both of these are solved by one thing: open platforms. If I can flash OpenWRT on to an older router then it becomes useful again.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bingo.

Either support the device until the heat death of the universe, or provide consumers with the access to maintain it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

But neither of those help corporations make them all the money. So we need regulation to force them to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Regulation? I think you mean "guillotines"...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Definitely don’t this in the past (Linksys WRT54G!) but let’s be honest, the kind of people running 10yo Dlink routers aren’t going to flash new firmware, let alone OpenWRT or even know to look for it. It would have to come that way from the factory. And even then I doubt most people even do regular updates, sadly.