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by KirillPanov 2000 days ago
> Look at a company like Anker.

Same with "gl.inet" (weird name, yes).

They operate in the most trashed-up market on earth: cheap internet-connected widgets. But I will buy from them every single time because all their products run a modified OpenWRT and all of them let you replace it with vanilla upstream OpenWRT. And all of their recent products have a physical "unbrick this device" button you hold down to boot to a slick reflash-the-firmware-over-the-network ROM.

I will not hesitate to pay twice as much for a gl.inet widget because of this.