The unofficial firmware that is maintained by some random person out of a basement in Kansas is infinitely more trustworthy than the vendors firmware itself in

The unofficial firmware that is maintained by some random person out of a basement in Kansas is infinitely more trustworthy than the vendors firmware itself in iot and simple embedded devices. I run some fork of some custom firmware on an older Nighthawk router in my house and the random person in Kansas updates the thing with security and perf and feature patches monthly. Never one issue upgrading them