I'm not a bumper sticker person. I bought Linux stickers for my laptop, decided it was too much like a bumper sticker, didn't use them. But my routers? Somehow feels appropriate 😁
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Help me plan a roomette trip? Chicago to... Somewhere out West. Best train to take? I've got an $800 voucher that expires in two weeks, I need to book ASAP.
Help me plan a roomette trip? Chicago to... Somewhere out West. Best train to take? I've got an $800 voucher that expires in two weeks, I need to book ASAP. - sh.itjust.works
We’ve never been on a trip before, we booked a roomette to Tucson once before, but missed our train because an employee looked at our ticket and told us to sit and wait for him to call us. He never did and our train left, then he was very rude, convinced us to cancel our ticket (which was the wrong advice). It’s a long story, needless to say, we got our money back, plus repayment for last minute flights (we needed to be in Tucson), plus this voucher for another trip. The trip can be any time of the year next year, not February, March or April. Assuming summer is best? The plan is to ride out west somewhere, California? And then rent a car to road trip home. It’ll be the first and probably only time we can afford something like this, so we wanna make it count. It might make more sense to drive out and train back? But… I worry about missing the train… Again… no no, we’re leaving from Chicago. I know some routes are better than others, and I know they change sometimes, what they’re offering, what they used to offer, etc. We’d like a roomette, and we wanna see the sights in one of those glass roof cars, and I know the food options vary too, so whatever the better of the food options would be ideal. Bonus points if you have suggestions of things to check out on our way back east. We’ve never been out west before, besides Tuscon. Maybe see the Sequoias? Grand canyon? We like backpacking so the return trip will probably involve some car camping, or real camping, for the fun of it. Thanks!
Router as tiny server?
Router as tiny server? - sh.itjust.works
Go with me here. Routers are routers, and servers are servers. Some people mix and match things, but generally, ideally, this is how it goes. And I agree. But the router I just set up, the Google WiFi, has 4gb storage, 512mb of ram, a quad core CPU at 800mhz, is easy to flash, and only costs $10-15 on eBay all day long. If you used it as only a little computer, no routing… Then… If I wanted to say… Set up a tailscale node at my family’s house. Why spend $45-80, or even $130(!) on a raspberry pi with an Ethernet port, when the Google WiFi works just as well if not better for that job? Maybe a tiny matrix server? Tiny web hosting? Or, for a less ideal solution, but still reasonable. What if I wanted to set up a remote backup node for my main server? If my needs were small enough, the Google WiFi would be much more economical, although you’d need to add a USB hub to break out the USB ports. And there would be limitations obviously. Or getting really crazy, you could potentially squeeze one or two bigger services onto a router, just to see if it’s possible… Minecraft server? My question is. What is the best device for this? The Google WiFi is dirt cheap at $10-15, I’m about to pull the trigger on a second one just to play with. But I wanted to see if you guys had any other suggestions? I tried searching the toh for similar devices, but even restricting it down every way I can think of, I’ve still got over a hundred devices to look at. Basically, I think older router hardware is an overlooked, cheaper alternative, to raspberry pis, for some scenarios.
I read that not all routers support VLANs, but I can't tell if mine does or not. I'm extremely new to VLANs and openwrt in general. Can someone give me a touch of guidance?
I read that not all routers support VLANs, but I can't tell if mine does or not. I'm extremely new to VLANs and openwrt in general. Can someone give me a touch of guidance? - sh.itjust.works
I’m old school, the last router firmware I touched was ddwrt on a 54g. These days it seems openwrt is the way to go. I’ve got an old Google WiFi that I just flashed over. I have a small managed switch in the mail. I want to play with VLANs. With only one lan port I’ll need to do trunking. I’ve watched the videos, read some docs, I’m still trying to wrap my head around it. Right now I’m stuck on the idea that my router model might not even support it? I can’t find where I read that, but now I’m all turned around. I’ll play with it when the switch arrives, surely I’ll figure it out eventually. but in the meantime, does anyone know if the Google WiFi router supports VLANs when flashed? Or is that a problem I made up? Thanks!
What fungus would do this to a tree? Huge blooms. I know nothing about mushrooms.
Stop hole in wool shirt from getting worse? Penny for scale.
Adhered so hard it delaminated the glass.
Tinkercad not exporting holes? They don't even show up in the preview. Some of my previously working designs are also doing this.
