Most people never think about what runs on their router, treating it like an appliance that just works. OpenWrt shows your network hardware can be something entirely different from the ISP surveillance node they shipped you. Running open firmware on a router puts you in control of your local network in a way proprietary OS updates on phones or laptops never will. That autonomy matters because the router sits at the choke point of your entire digital life. If we actually cared about privacy we'd be having very different conversations about the firmware running on billions of devices. When did you last think about what your router actually runs? #privacy #FOSS #techliberation #router #opennet

We on Lemmy are not most people, I assure you!

I use an OpenWRT One at home and recently flashed a Tp-link router I found at a thrift store for $7 with it for my cousins' place.

It's good stuff, and I'm not just paid to say so.

Here here! I flashed my first wrt-54g with dd-wrt something like 20 years ago.

I got away from it for a bit, the siren song of Google Wi-Fi was too strong. And I didn't know about openwrt.

But now I'm back and openwrt is my jam.

@AbsolutelyNotCats I think that the approach that Openwrt has taken is amazing. It got me into self hosting and I'd be really keen to see it work with some of the home server projects like #yunohost - to bring together an all in one router/home server device to provide basic self hosted communications services for a family (email, activitypub, maybe a little bit of home assistant/nextcloud)