Make sure to avoid miscounting disk buffers. That’s kernel-owned memory that might eat a ton of RAM, but
My current router is an ancient laptop running NixOS. Ethernet in via the Ethernet port, and out via a USB converter. It probably could serve as a WiFi AP too, but currently I have a dumb OpenWRT in bridge mode for that.
The same laptop also selfhosts Prosody, coturn, LiveKit and stuff.
I don’t really see how a proper router would be better than that.
I don’t know of any end-to-end electronics fabrication in Europe… Having the final assembly done in EU is kinda misleading if everything else comes from elsewhere, no?
Yes. Works fine. PostmarketOS, though, not Lineage. It runs an offsite monitoring system for the rest of my selfhosted stuff - Prometheus, Grafana, stuff.
It’s a lot easier to avoid dumb than increase smart, though, while both raise the average!
I’d use nginx and https://git-scm.com/docs/git-http-backend
If you start tracking performance (of whichever system) via a graph, then people will start pushing the graph up, at the cost of anything else.
Human happiness is multifaceted and not easy to represent in a simple chart.
Here’s a tip: it’s one less firewall to manage, if you make your server be the router, and have your Cudy do only WiFi in dumb AP mode. Or, if the server is in a good enough location, install ´haveged´ and have it serve WiFi too.
Is there a particular reason you’re not selfhosting Wireguard, instead relying on a commercial provider? I’m running this thing on my phone, via F-Droid: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.zaneschepke.wireguardautotunnel (it eats battery if you enable keepalive, but you normally don’t need keepalive, so leave it unset).
Kiwix has the whole Gutenberg as a downloadable dataset. Search is basic, tho.
sway. I tried hyprland, but it was unable to switch between different maximized windows (monocle layout). There was a way, but it triggered a resize on every window switch, which was slow and annoying. I don’t know if it’s perhaps been fixed since then.
Find a car. It needn’t be in perfect condition. It’ll let you run away from many a sticky situation, carry your loot, provide light, and you can mod it. Perhaps add a minifridge or such.
Get an old Android phone, possibly with a dead screen (bootloader must be unlocked). Flash PostmarketOS on it, or (if not supported) Termux. Its idle usage (with WiFi on, screen off) may be considerably less than 1w. It’ll have considerable amounts of CPU cores and RAM, more than a cheap VPS.
Maybe not better, but not much worse either. Fuel got more expensive when Americans started their dumb war against Iran (the people of which I feel sorry for), but on the flip side, Russian war efforts seem to be getting weaker.
Besides, none of this matters at all to our discussion of tech getting worse, or not.
Athens were olive toned.
Green or black? Or those huge, red and expensive ones?
On the contrary, everything is better than ever!
Internet connections are cheaper and more ubiquitous than ever. Second-hand junk is available for free or very cheap. It is common to keep a computer in your pocket, one which is faster and has more memory than seriously power-hungry and expensive equipment of yesteryear.
Yes, there are more bastards around, but you needn’t listen to them. Use the economy of scale that the thundering herds bring, then ignore them. Self-host private spaces for friends. Contribute to open source.
Use AI to learn. Instead of wasting energy to generate silly junk, use them to debug and fix bugs in open-source software.
Life is good.
Manually set up Wireguard, here.