So first of all, this looked/looks awesome. Open hardware FTW.
My gripes include it being difficult to get ahold of one in the US. The idea of unattended auto updates on a router seems a bit dangerous, but it's all OSS anyway. It's initial rollout was meant for data collection (which can be turned off on the paid product). I wish I knew if you could run vanilla OpenWRT/LEDE on it and not their fork (support, maintenance, future look). Overall though, cool.
>My gripes include it being difficult to get ahold of one in the US. The idea of unattended auto updates on a router seems a bit dangerous, but it's all OSS anyway
You can auto-update or disable it. From simple UI you can set to reboot the router after n-days or hours after upgrades, recently added feature emails me when there are (important) updates and status of the router after updates.
>I wish I knew if you could run vanilla OpenWRT/LEDE on it and not their fork
Afaik you can. You won't get support for sim card socket and hardware accelerated encryption that they bundle with their OpenVPN/openSSL, I remember reading that someone manager to put LibreWRT on that router.
It has uboot for booting, with support for btrfs. The supplied system uses btrfs snapshots for itself when upgrading, and you can use your own subvolume for your own system without disturbing the rest. In case that you manage to wipe out the entire volume, the restore is just one usb stick and reboot away.
My gripes include it being difficult to get ahold of one in the US. The idea of unattended auto updates on a router seems a bit dangerous, but it's all OSS anyway. It's initial rollout was meant for data collection (which can be turned off on the paid product). I wish I knew if you could run vanilla OpenWRT/LEDE on it and not their fork (support, maintenance, future look). Overall though, cool.