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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
.fart because decades of growing up haven’t quite cured my potty humor.
They should have sent the manager and crew to the thrift store with a corporate CC and a box truck for furniture. Instead it’s bland, depressed, “I can’t believe it’s not cardboard™.”
Chipotle is still the king of food poisoning. They have a proven track record in toilet-related war crimes going back many years. Guess I’m adding BK to my no-go list now too.
I’m happy to drink a $2 coffee from the gas station (probably a half gallon of it 🙂) and set the remaining $7 aside. Then again, I only get drip coffee and not any of the milkshake-y stuff Starbucks specializes in.
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. 🙂
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.
Perhaps they’ll argue that AIs should have human rights and they’ll claim copyright over a bunch of open-source projects shortly after based on copilots claims of authorship. Anyone who complains, they can likely force into arbitration. Then they own the internet and the entire technology pipeline and can fully control the narrative and even plant ideas in people’s minds. The most beneficial thing for humanity will have been fully transformed into an instrument of its repression and eventual destruction.
Yeah, America would rather enforce with tickets than with good engineering and reasonable rules.
My city, medium-sized and in the US, used to post 85th percentile speeds and quartiles whenever they did speed studies. Sometimes they overrode it, rarely did they explain why, but at least they showed that they had gone out and observed that actual section of road. We have a different mayor and probably a different council at this point and I haven’t seen a speed study on the city website in some time, though they seem to be paving and doing a better job of making car friendly and bike friendly routes interact better. I am a firm believer that road design is 2/3 of how people drive and only the tiniest portion is fear of enforcement. We should keep in mind though that speed doesn’t have to be the enemy. Germany has speed too, but their 30kph neighborhood roads don’t look like wide open airport runways. That’s why I’m baffled by the freeway speed cams some states are doing. The freeway is statistically the safest place for an American to drive (except maybe on their gaming console). Suburbia and rural roads are much less safe because of higher speeds, intersections, 2 way traffic, and unprotected turns across oncoming lanes.
To your point about little towns, I’m still irritated with Wyoming State Patrol in Rawlins, WY for giving my a ticket for passing a Semi at 79 in a 70 on a clear and sunny day, safely, and carefully. It’s just the ticket lottery. Set a low enough limit and you can pull over Mother-fucking-Theresa for breaking the law.
They’re building to a place where they could do this remotely and that’s ripe for abuses of power. The AI will see that your social karma is low and use parallel construction to develop a reason for suspending your driving privileges effective immediately. Appealing it will probably involve talking to an endless string of clankers on the phone. Ultimately there will be no humans in the chain to accept any kind of responsibility.
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.
Righto, blaming AI takes all the intentionality of of it.
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.
Thanks for the reply. At this point, I’ve decided I’ll need to try both. Fortunately my old router still works. I just need to make some hardware decisions now as I don’t have any hardware with multiple lan ports to try it out on. I don’t want to buy twice, so I’m trying to figure out what I’m going to need to overshoot my requirements a bit but not go crazy overboard and overspending for unused specs. My current router is the GliNet Flint 2 which has an open-WRT advance mode that I’ve messed with a little bit.