[Mashiro]

When buying such products it is important to buy something that gets constant firmware updates until the product itself reaches End of Life (no longer being produced, support being dropped, no longer being sold and etc). If the company doesn't bother to provide any updates through the lifetime of that product... it isn't even worth to buy it.

Another thing to consider with custom firmware is of course also the same as above. If you find custom firmware that is a few years old... it's probably not a good idea to use it. Could be worse than the OEM firmware (if the OEM firmware is newer).


I hate this whole "throwaway society" and "planned obsolescence" to squeeze money out of people. Back in my younger days products used to be repaired and maintained properly. Nowadays... "Oh this little piece is broken. Buy a new one or here you have a new one". Everywhere... Change a lightbulb in your car today? Forget it. It's all LED and you have to change the whole module at insane costs. And you can't even change it yourself.

Anyway that's off topic. ^