router modem combo devices and really cheap routers or access points.

I’ve always thought that combo devices are probably good for the average, casual internet user, but not high end, extreme users. I want the best (within reason of course) delivery mechanism that I can get to route the signal from the street to my devices. It’s worth the extra $$ to me.

$409.00

The firewalla is a heavily optimized amlogic based pi. it’s not special.

Damn sure seems special. WOW! What features are/were you running on Opnsense?

I looked for specs on the Firewalla Purple. However, to compare, I’m running pFsense on an Intel Celeron CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz/4 core/32gb RAM with pfblockerng, suricata, ntopng, and Tailscale, unbound, with customized and publicly available DNSBL lists.

Load average 0.80, 0.51, 0.45

As @frongt@lemmy.zip said, the more ‘things’ you have running, the more load, and 800 Mbps is about what I can do even with a gigabit connection and CAT6 pulled for every connection. If I were try to run huge generic block lists, I will start peeking, which is why I run mostly slimmed down, targeted, custom lists. When you stop and think about it, the amount of list checking, resolving, etc, it’s really pretty amazing.

I tried a while back to see if I could better the 800 Mbps, but nothing produced any thing much higher than the standard 800 Mbps which frustrated me. I just finally accepted the fact that getting as close to a gigabit connection would be the best I could do with what I’ve got. Being the type of person I am, I was rather verklempt I couldn’t squeeze that extra 200 Mbps.

Thank you for the screen shot.

I haven’t seen anyone mention Readeck. I use Readeck for those ‘read it later’ articles, etc. It has a Firefox extension. I’ve found it works very well. You can highlight a paragraph of an article, and save that to Readeck as well. In fact, when I consult with AI, I’ll highlight the entire page and shoot it to my Readeck instance, otherwise it will just link the AI platform and not the content.

You bet. Best of luck with your project. The more the merrier.

Not to crap all over your project OP, I think the idea is a good one. Maybe if we could have the choice of Telegram, or Slack, or some other service, or as @lelovsky@szmer.info said, just ssh in. Telegram is pretty neat and all, but I’ve never been convinced of it’s security. I did test it out once, and even though I only used it in the manner of which you are, to administrate containers, I got a lot of spam of the x-rated kind which are usually just scams.

• great idea
• might need some options

Supports Invidious

As I was reading down the post, that’s what I was thinking. Would be great to pipe it through Invideous. I may have my next project.

The future of validating if people are “real” or not is beginning to feel like fighting with ghosts.

On the internet, no one knows I’m a horse.

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In the future, I’d delete these…LOL. It’s like touching off a power keg in here. But, using AI for language translation is perfectly fine for me.

They are correct in that a basic foundation is crucial. Once you get that down to a note, then you can work on maybe running some Docker containers. I would just start with one and learn it. How it interacts with the rest of the stack, what else is it doing behind the scenes. Small steps lead to great strides.

My server is left on pending and no matter how I try to activate it, it doesn’t work.

Not to throw shade on your efforts, but this is pretty much the experience I had long time ago when I explored ‘free’ VPS. I do hope you get it going tho. They would send me a termination of my account for inactivity which is pretty ironic.

Use Cloudflare for now, because they handle a lot of security stuff for you that you definitely don’t want to screw up.

This is mainly for OP, but you mentioned Cloudflare. OP, if you decide to go with Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, I have some notes that might help jump start that process. They’ve seemed to help a few people set up Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust, and I’d be happy to share them with you.

https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/

Not sure how trustworthy this fork is though.

If the ruckus was about AI code, it would seem to me that the fork would contain some, or all of the code, perhaps modified. I’ve been using Calibre Web for quite a while now and it’s stable, ticks all the boxes.

and it never required

That’s cool. I was thinking one of the free tiers like Amazon, Google required a CC to open one. Side question: What do you run on Oracle, and how fastidious do you have to be about controlling resource consumption? I’ve read about people on one of the free tiers getting socked a big bill, in fact it’s a meme now.

I know of a few VPS that are ‘free’, and I use that word quite loosely. Long time back I explored a few, and I can tell you that they are not worth the time of day. Very cheap VPS can be had. I had one that ran me $25 USD per year. It wasn’t the most thread rippin’ VPS you could have, but it certainly was cheap, and at one time I had about 25 different containers running on it with out much trouble. A good place to look for cheap VPS is at lowendbox.com.

Oracle offers a free tier, but you really have to watch your consumption of resources, and I believe they require a credit card to open an account. There are horror stories of people who went over the limit and ended up with a good size bill

I realize $25 USD is not free and does not fit within your request, and I empathize. As far as using your own computer with something like Docker, and shutting it down each evening…I shut my server down every evening via a cron job. I am the only user, and I just couldn’t justify letting it run while I slept. So I guess you’d say it’s an intermittent service.

Because that’s just the way I do. LOL

It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it

Honest question: How is it different than anything else we are dependent on? The ‘dependent on’ list is quite long and includes things like transportation, infrastructure, power grid, fuel, food supply, water supply, industry, internet communications, et al. We are very dependent upon these things. Are they ‘enshitifications’ as well? I’ve tried to construct my life to be as independent as possible. I grow my own food, pump my water from several wells on my property, employ solar power while still connected to the grid. Try as I may, I am still dependent.

I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s and I’m quite certain I have only barely scratched the surface of what there is to learn.