A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS

Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by TeMPOraL on Saturday December 15, 2018 @01:53PM (#18689735)

> On the other hand, my Nest thermostats were bricked after a software update this week, so maybe today I'm starting to see a crack in my "auto update is best" dogma...

It works best when the vendor can be trusted to only push security updates and occasional quality of life improvements. In general, automatic updates tend to be a vector for bloat, user-hostile features (e.g. spyware), and user-hostile business practices (e.g. remote bricking).

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Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by Wowfunhappy on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:26PM (#18690928)

Which vendors fit this criteria for you?

I am not aware of any, except—somewhat ironically—for some open source projects.

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Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by TeMPOraL on Sunday December 16, 2018 @02:12AM (#18692115)

> Which vendors fit this criteria for you?

None. Hence, personally, I dislike auto updates.

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Re:A look at home routers, and a surprising bug in Linux/MIPS by walterbell on Saturday December 15, 2018 @11:07PM (#18691696)

Microtik has a “bugfix” security update channel that can be selected in their routers mgmt interface. They also provide a “current/stable” channel which delivers new features.

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