Interesting, I’ve never heard it described that way. I’m running Bluefin for a year, and up to now I’ve just avoided making any system level changes. I run flatpacks for most things, and containers for any odd bits that need dependencies.

Is what you’re describing, using rpmostree? I haven’t used it yet, afraid of messing things up, because I LOVE the stability I have now.

Used to run Ubuntu, and I’d reinstall for every new release, because I’d already mucked up my install anyway so might as well start fresh. And other times I’d just break stuff so thoroughly I needed to reinstall.

An oldy but a goody

Was is biggest flaw? Have you SEEN the other options out there for handhelds? Everyone craps on SD because it feels underpowered, and it kind of is, but watt for watt you get more performance than machines costing several times its price.

The SD is an absolute beast in its class, battery life being best in class, compared to what everyone else is doing.

Though I agree, for heavy loads, it’s not quite enough for proper mobile use. Even better battery life would be preferred, and ARM can hopefully bring that.

Atlantis was great.

Universe was amazing, and I’m still mad that they killed it on such a massive cliffhanger. Made me gunshy to this day, I don’t like watching shows until they’ve concluded. I will, but I don’t like it. Much rather find something that’s already wrapped up.

Same

This is an example of what an Internet service providers network might look like.

They use many different types of specialized computers and devices to connect your house (one of the grey rectangles) to the greater Internet (the yellow rectangle in the middle).

One person is arguing that instead of the Internet service provider owning all of the red green and blue computers… Other people would own them. And maybe the red computer for your neighborhood would physically be inside your neighbor’s house, instead of in a small building or box on the side of the road somewhere nearby.

Functionally, it’s the same Internet, regardless of who owns the red box. Though theoretically, it could be less safe to give random people, potentially bad actors, access to the physical computer that is the red box, because they could do something malicious with it. But the point is, if the technology is working correctly, it doesn’t matter who owns it, everyone’s private home networks (everything downstream of your grey rectangle), are kept separate.

Just like normal Internet, you can’t print on your neighbor’s network printer, just because you both have the same ISP and share the same red computer upstream somewhere. The red computer won’t let it happen.

Does that make sense?

Now, the concern of the other guy, it seems, comes from not understanding this. Not understanding that the red computers are specially configured by the ISP, or whoever owns it, to keep the grey rectangles separate.

What he might be thinking, is something similar to sharing your Wi-Fi password. Or maybe running an Ethernet cable over the fence and plugging your neighbor’s router into your router. Things start to get complicated here, so I’ll gloss over a lot of things, but essentially… Your home router is not configured like the red computers are. So all of your neighbors data would be going through your home network, and you could very likely see what he’s doing, and he could potentially see what you’re doing (provided there’s no double NAT, but even then I’m not sure, maybe).

Basically, if two or more neighbors want to share Internet, but don’t know how to do it safely, then they can expose their private network activity to each other and open each other up to a decent amount of risk.

The solution, is to configure your router in a similar way to the red computers. It’s complicated, but not that difficult in practice. You could Google VLANs to get an idea of what would need to be done. Honestly you’d need more than that, some good firewall rules, and more things that I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m not a networkologist. But it can be done.

The debate/argument stems from a basic misunderstanding of how these systems work. Or perhaps they both understand how they work, but the guy who doesn’t want to do it is just worried about his neighbors being untrustworthy with the hardware being in their house, worried they’ll be nefarious, but he’s just bad at communicating that idea to the other guy.

At any rate, it doesn’t matter who owns the red computers or the green or blue, if they’re configured correctly, you’re safe. Unless you don’t trust whoever owns the computers 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully that makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions!

This. Though theoretically you could do it without CGNAT, maybe some type of complex vlan arrangement? I’m not sure, I’m not a networkologist.

I do know that I just got fiber down my road from a smaller company, still a big multi state company, but not Comcast or charter big. I called them because I was worried about CGNAT for my self hosting. The salesman didn’t know what I was talking about, which is disappointing but not surprising. But they forwarded me to the tech guys, who also claimed to not know what I was talking about… Which was either a downright lie, or they were idiots, either way it’s very concerning.

The price was right though, $5 cheaper per month, for 10 times faster download, and 30 times faster upload. So I gave it a shot. Thankfully I’m not behind a CGNAT, yet 🤞

I’ll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don’t point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they’ll take you out

Thanks for the update!

I’m not a professional, just some ideas here:

Yes cat6 is copper, but it’s low voltage, so according to a quick Google, you can put it 6 inches under and be ok, depending on what’s on the ground above it.

Fiber sounds good, but more delicate if anything is driving over it, might want it deeper anyway. For what it’s worth they just installed it at my house and only trenched it 2 or 3 inches, so 🤷‍♂️

You mention bonding the buildings together, and that might work, but there might be some code violations there, definitely look into it. IIRC if bonding two buildings, you need to, at a minimum, drive a ground rod 8ft down every so many feet. On every 5 or 10 maybe? Don’t quote me, definitely look it up.

But you might not need to do that anyway, did you try grounding just one side, or the other side? Just making sure the shielding on one side or the other is bonded well to the ground in that one building, and not the other. RF can do some weird stuff. And a wire that long is basically a big antenna, and if not grounded, can be inducing all kinds of voltages and noise where it shouldn’t be.

The RF link did work great, but it’s hard to beat a solid chunk of wire. That REALLY should be working for you, sorry to hear it’s not.

Anyway sorry to butt in with my opinions, please do keep us posted! I’m quite curious now haha

Not op, but sometimes you just do the quick easy thing with the assumption that it should be fine for a good long while. And then it isn’t 🤦‍♂️

Did you ever figure this out? I’m curious. Nobody mentioned the caulk, yes you cleaned it, but if it was silicone then it likely cures with acetic acid, which can corrode the conductors on both sides of the plug.

Wow that’s crazy!

Finally set up my proxmox server, been procrastinating for a year. Thought on a whim, “I’m only using 2 of my 4 slots, and I could benefit from a bit more RAM. It’s DDR4, can’t be that expensive”.

Yeah… It was that expensive. More expensive than when I bought the stuff originally when this computer was new.

The lan thing makes sense, I could see that. Still an impressive amount of patch cables, if true. Plus those adapters are cheap but not dirt cheap, right?

As for turning WiFi on and off, that could work too, didn’t think of that. But I feel like maybe not? Surely the apps would complain or get suspicious of only connecting to make a quick comment and then disconnecting again, every single time. Or maybe not.

I just imagine companies trying to fight this somehow, and that would be a suspicious fingerprint.

Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. It is indeed impressive that all those WiFi radios are working that close together. There’s another wall of phones behind it, double! Probably more in the room too.

There’s gotta be 100 phones on that first wall alone, plus double it, so 200. More in the room? Other rooms? Hundreds of phones, all screaming out WiFi, trying to connect.

From a networking perspective, impressive indeed. Those phones must hate life.

Edit: heck I bet most consumer grade routers DHCP servers would choke after the first 255 clients (probably much sooner) just from having to change subnets. I’m not a networkologist though so IDK for sure

Honestly, I was blown away by beat saber. I almost bought a meta quest, but I hated the required Facebook integration. I won’t do it. This will be a million times better

100% instant buy, as long as it’s under a certain price point. Even if it isn’t… I’ve been holding off on VR for so long, this is gonna be the thing that does it.

Thank you for all these wonderful suggestions!

Our plans were very fluid, and it seems we’ve settled on doing a rail pass, which means we have to use it within 4 months, which means February and March are out, which leaves only January in our schedule.

That also means we’re probably going to take the train home as well.

We’re still very interested in the Sequoias though! As well as the Grand canyon! So any insights you have would be extremely welcome!

More details in the op

Thanks for the recommendation!

Did you take a bus to the Canyon? What would it be like in the winter? We’ve got ambitious plans now haha, please check the op for updates!

Yes! Yes I’ve heard this! Thanks, that’s definitely step one. We’ve got some other requirements now, a bit more of a plan than before. Please check the op and let me know what you think!