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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by slavik81 on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:10PM (#37394802)
> If you want to get a good picture of how sideways updating can even be watch the linus tech tips on where he wanted (and has the tech ability) to patch his light switches. But could not even get them to give him the correct firmware or even say if he could.

It was a mess, but it may not be a good example because part of the confusion was that there was no newer firmware. Their firmware version was being reported in hexadecimal, but the latest firmware version was listed in decimal.

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Re:Ask HN: I’m an FCC Commissioner proposing regulation of I... by sumtechguy on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @01:28PM (#37395036)
He had a mix of random ones. They were telling him to buy a hub and hope for the best or go thru one of their vendors (more cost). Even if it that was slightly wrong that exact example could very easily happen. You have a group of devices in random levels of firmware states with no real nice way to tell what is what.
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