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njordomir

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  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Sounds like you are pretty far along in your networking journey. I can appreciate the vLans and the 10G backbone, but a lot of the hardware you mention is over my head. :D I'd take the miniPC route, but like you, I'd like to attach my 4g router as a failover.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Glad to know I'm not alone! Sometimes it feels like everyone else has either figured it all out, or I'm charting new (and potentially silly) territory and nobody knows wtf I'm doing.

    I've been doing Linux stuff for a long time, but I was still living under my parent's roof back then so I never had to network anything, I just had the wifi password. After school, out in the world, I still didn't have my own network for quite some time. Only in the last few years have I really started to grasp how it works well enough to actually do something useful with that knowledge. I'll take a look at ipfire too. Luckily my current router is still functioning okay, so I have time to play around and see what software will work for me. Right now I have to make some sort of decision about hardware because I don't have anything with dual ethernet on hand.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • I have the fiber ONT straight from the wall. The tech support guys at my ISP gave me all the details I needed to configure my own current router (GLInet Flint 2). I've just been not trusting corporate solutions lately. I'm almost completely degoogled on my phone and the recent router banning drama is encouraging me to do this now instead of later when I had originally wanted to do it.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • This is good info. I remember hearing a little bit of that and someone set me straight on DDWRT vs OpenWRT as well. I think I'll take OPNsense for a spin.

  • Rolling my First Self-Made Router

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  • Thanks for the reply.

    I have devices I could use, but they're earmarked for other projects. I'm looking at acquiring hardware specifically for this project. I could acquire it at a garage sale or a classified ads site. I don't really want to spend more than $350 if I can help it and even then, I have to be able to justify that to myself somehow. (since that almost enough to add another 2TB of SSDs to my server). Having said that, if the features I want are only present in pricier hardware, I want to find that out now.

    I have a 4g WiFi router I carry around when I travel that I call "the hocky puck". It also has an ethernet port, so when I'm home, I take the battery out and attach it to my router as a backup in case the fiber fails. If I want to do the same thing on OPNsense, I would need to add an expansion card with more network ports, right? That would steer me from miniPCs to barebones router hardware or a small-form-factor PC build where I could add as many NICS as I have PCI slots.

    Does wanting a 2nd WAN pretty much rule out mini-PCs for me?

    Even in my God Tier build-dreams, I only have 2WANS a LAN and a management LAN. :D

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  • Someone talked shit about me in their Instagram posts once during one of the most difficult times in my life (unrelated to their BS). It was kind of indirect, but it was clear who they were talking about and they held up an object I had given them during their video and talked shit about it too. I know that kind of thing is common nowadays, but I don't play that game. If you have a problem with me, you don't need to slam me online behind my back... just talk to me.

    I still see this person semi-regularly, but I just ignore them because I'm not interested in putting in the effort to fix our friendship when they weren't. This post is looking for "unforgivable" situations. I could maybe forgive this person if they apologized and explained themselves, but I won't ever make that move myself because I didn't do shit to deserve it.

  • People who use apps like "Notion", are you not worried about lock-in due to complex files/data structures?

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  • That's kind of what I'm figuring out. I don't want to put hundreds of hours into documenting and organizing my life so I can switch platforms and put in another hundred hours of migration effort. I'd rather use open formats from the start. That rules out some complexity, but I at least retain most of my freedom.

  • ICANN is Accepting Suggestions for new TLDs (for $227k) - what would you pick?

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  • .fart because decades of growing up haven't quite cured my potty humor.

  • "Every great search must come to an end": Ask.com shutdown, ending ask Jeeves.

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  • They stopped indexing years ago if I recall correctly. If they still had search results, they were probably white-labled. Doesn't take much to beat modern google results though. 🙂

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    Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves

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  • Yeah, I remember disliking it back in the day (Alta Vista gang!!!🅰️♈), but I wish they evolved and got better rather than shutting down and I am still sad to see it go.

  • How to support a grieving person?

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  • As someone who has had some very emotional partners, but rarely allows myself to become overly emotional, have tissue paper, a warming bottle or one of those heatable beanbags, and a listening ear ready. Expect to put a lot of time into sitting without doing anything. Grief can move slow and rushing it rarely works. Avoid alcohol and other inflammatories and depressants.

  • Tech companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are ignoring data controls mandated under California privacy law at ‘industrial scale’

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  • Yeah, these ineffective fines need to stop. perhaps the following would work better:

    1st offense: warning, public humiliation, reparations to the wronged. 2nd offense: meaningfully huge fine 3rd offense: even bigger fine and c-level prosecutions. 4th offense: stop work order and c-level prosecutions and personal liability. 5th offense: public tar and feathering.

  • Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill - Slashdot

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  • I'm so against the Colorado bill, but a situation where Microsoft is handcuffed but FOSS isn't sounds less terrible than the original plan. Of course they're just pushing the idea to gain ground and when the federal version comes, it'll apply to everything. Maybe Colorado will become the most Linux-friendly state in the meantime.

  • Act Now to Stop California’s Paternalistic and Privacy-Destroying Social Media Ban

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  • I've emailed and called my congress people and the cosponsors about the Colorado one. Not sure what to do next.

  • Do you ever just sit and listen to music, or do you have to be doing something else at the same time?

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  • I like to take my Bluetooth speaker outside and lounge in the hammock while I build playlists.

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    Do you know any tricks to disenshittify a work computer?

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  • If you are using it on your home network, you could still use network level adblocking with something like adguard or pihole. That won't work if you are hybrid or fully in the office, but I share your pain. Windows is hell from the first login all the way through to the "these apps are preventing the computer from shitting down" screen.

    As for watching YouTube, an alternative frontend like invideous may help. Alternatively, you might try duck duck go. I think they relay the video through their own server.

  • You can eat ONE inedible thing of your choice. What's for dinner?

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  • The one with the cat?

  • Framework Laptop 13 Pro and highlights from the Framework [Next Gen]

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  • I have an XPS 13 9370. It's still chugging along great on Linux. No real slowdowns. Drives an external 4k monitor with no lag or issues. Like you, I've had to replace the battery... 2-4 times by now. A $30 battery every 2 years seems like a pretty reasonable price to keep this champ running. It looks like the framework may be my next laptop though. I've been watching them for a while now. That or system 76.

  • Meshcore.io - Why The Split? - MeshCore Blog

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  • I'm new to mesh and have some radios on meshtastic, but none on meshcore, yet.

    Help me understand the implications of this. Does this mean people will have to reflash existing infastructure to ensure they're on whatever fork/branch ends up favored by the community? Will it split the community geographically?