Because best practices for connecting an unsupported operating system are to not do it.

Even if the OS is safe on the day support ends, a critical vulnerability might be found just a few days later. It’s also possible that an exploit has already been found that the bad actor is sitting on it until support ends.

Even if that doesn’t happen, software developers are going to drop support for the OS and vulnerabilities found in those applications could be used to gain ingress.

No amount of “being careful using the Internet” is going to prevent hacking if the system has exploits. If you context a fresh install of XP to the Internet, your system will be compromised in a matter of minutes.

All of mine are sequestered to their own vlan that can only talk to Home Assistant. But they do have ones that use matter now.

Not immediately, no, but saying you can safely continue using it if you follow Internet use best practices is flat out wrong.

I did have my roccat keyboard die on me after less than a year, but all I had to do was send them a picture of it with the cable cut and they sent me a be one.

It’s the smart part that goes obsolete.

Don’t give out infosec advice if you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

That’s about the only reason I’m still sticking with TP-LINK for switches.

Hmm, I wonder if I can use this on my Synology to manage things until I get around to finishing my proxmox setup.