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I'm the proud owner of a major brand WiFi router, and there is a typo on the admin login screen. Not a good look, but it's the best we've got.

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The original Street Fighter II arcade game had the same problem, but Capcom managed to fix it: https://fabiensanglard.net/sf2_warrier/index.html

I love these little posts.

I was replaying Resident Evil 2 and this typo broke the climate for me: "Platform Eleveter" https://twitter.com/ResiFacts/status/1189139062197604357 (in moments like that you are reminded, "oh, this is a Japanese game")

I'll note that you have typo'd the typo, it looks like it was "elevater".

I'm leaving that unedited for posterity, thanks for pointing that out

Living in Japan I see so much bad English spelling I’ve gotten used it. Esp. at restaurants it can be very off-putting (e.g. “Flesh Juice” instead of “Fresh Juice”)

See also: KONMAI Quality https://namu.wiki/w/KONMAI (long list of typos and other errors in KONAMI arcade games, including infamously misspelling the name of the company itself)

Psygnosis managed to do that as well, in the C64 version of Shadow of the Beast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_GdJiEjSho

Spelling error is at 5-8 seconds in. As that is kinda the first thing you see, it is quite noticable.

Keeping with the video game theme - the Wii version of Okami used a watermarked version of their own box art.

https://www.destructoid.com/oopsies-ign-watermark-on-the-cov...

I would argue that OpenWrt is the best we've got. (I grant that the hardware side remains messy)

I grant that the hardware side remains messy

Other than that, how was the play Mrs Lincoln.

Yes, but you usually have to choose hardware that's a couple generations behind, in order to run OpenWrt.

I don't think that's the case, exactly.

You can choose current-generation hardware from a company that chooses to implement less advanced wireless specifications. For example, the gl-inet Flint 2 (MT-6000) runs a fork of OpenWRT out of the box and can be flashed with stock OpenWRT snapshots. That's a very modern piece of hardware that will do wifi 6 (not wifi 6E/7).

So hardware-wise you get the current gen, software-spec-wise you get one generation behind. I don't think practically speaking you're going to feel much pain from using Wifi 6 for the next few years, as it can saturate a 1Gbps link pretty easily.

You could run a separate switch/gateway and a separate Wi-Fi access point. Worth it? Idk

But it’s nice when your Wi-Fi is just a dumb box with almost no settings that you can upgrade independently.

Pfsense (on a Proxmox VM, on a laptop with 2 NICs), tp-link managed switch with PoE on half the ports, all-in-one ASUS box configured as an AP only (and switch). It's only WiFi 5, but in a pinch that could go back to doing everything. Rock solid, with no reboots in years other than what ended up being unnecessary ones. Went 390+ days at one point on pfsense.

No you don't. You just have to learn how to compile things.

I run, and love, OpenWrt, but if you make your wifi with routers configured as 'dumb APs', you can keep most of the complexity on the router connected to your internet. I have had (gasp) non-OpenWrt APs on my network at times.

Currently I have 3 TP-Link AC routers running OpenWrt, RPi 4 running OpenWrt for the router.

> I'm the proud owner of a major brand WiFi router

Why not name it?

Asus

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