Indeed, and is something that not only irks me with newer apps like you say but is also something we have at work with all the HMI / touchscreens.
They're just now icons with no labels or anything so trying to figure out what some of them do is a game of guesswork ๐คฌ
The French are very defendant when it comes to VLC or other open sauce apps. I'd usually bring the Willy joke out but I'm with them on this one.
edit Gli-net seems nice, but i'm a stickler of using a WAP separate from the router. I know I pay more.
It's exactly why I bought her two of them. One their main router and the other in AP mode ;)
As opposed to, TP-Link, Cisco(Linksys) and other off the shelf routers it seems some will only go for brands with their own proprietary firmware?
I grabbed that Xiaomi router on the premise it has OpenWRT, but I'd like to see Ubi / Unifi routers put under the same scrutiny instead of just lumping a brand name as a no-go.
What's your recommendation?
Never used them pal, but seen them used in Enterprise environments?
Something I've found on a SOHO environment though and what I bought a family member?
Gli-Net mini routers. They come with OpenWRT as a base and then lipstick it with a nice interface. But as always, YMMV
No doubt, and I would really love someone with more knowledge than me to poke into why that was going on (*edit: for clarity, this behaviour stopped after installing OpenWRT and is the stock Mi firmware that causes this)
https://files.catbox.moe/2i5ekl.jpg
I remember finding this thread where someone said they replaced their entire networking equipment
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch
My router is this model for anyone wanting to nosey
This reminds me of some peeps saying using Newpipe is "(app) piracy". I wholly disagree with them to this day.
If a website, which YouTube.com is and allows a client to connect and use its services it isn't, piracy per se.
Much like because I have a UK IP address I can hit up get_iplayer and use that service which IMO should be the norm.
e: apologies for not been helpful, I'm just ranting.
I've had no end of trouble with routers and ones you should choose to be sure of.
The ones where you can flash OpenWRT seems the only choice if you want some semblance of security. But even my current Xiaomi router with stock firmware creates hash mismatches using apt to download things, and I don't 100% know with confidence that using OpenWRT on it instead is keeping me right.
Innit.
It's silly, and they're nuking devs apps to make them update for the sake of "being active" even thou their app is still like Ronseal and does what it says on the tin, even after all these years and works just fine.
Might look like Gingerbread but I don't give a fugg since I don't even look at it and love that app.
Sucks, I recently just noticed one of my most used apps SMBSync2 got yoinked but thankfully have it installed still, but I also noticed that APKmirror doesn't even have a copy of it like it does for GSAM :/
Ya know this is a really good point and whether the network switch is managed, or unmanaged.
I've never delved into the black magic of playing with a managed switch before but your comment makes me eager to have a play with one now.