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Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] knotthatone@lemmy.one 2 points 7 months ago

I did, when I bought the device. And if the manufacturer does a good job, I'll recommend them to friends and family and likely buy more of their products.

The FOSS community does most of the heavy lifting with security updates anyway. Most of these things are running Linux, so they've already helped themselves to that community's work.