I tried to make it a sunday chore to clean out my PC but honestly it’s very hard to stick to

I still never got this bad though

Apparently it’s older than I thought and not supported! I could use another project called dd-wrt though

Sometimes it’s really that simple 🥰

I don’t know for sure what I like or don’t like, but I am pretty sure I do not want to start with iptables. Thank you :)

Lol I also passed up on ring cameras, i’d like to have a camera someday but I don’t want to go through Amazon.

I wonder if I should set up a guest network for my mother-in-law. 🤔 My husband is very on-board with my privacy-focused desires and cautious about what we invite into the home but my MIL, well, is old.

Ooooo that’s really good to know. See, I think starting my journey on youtube, I was kind of getting some slightly biased perspectives, like, a lot more exposure to firms that are more likely to do youtube sponsorships, for example.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Someone suggested seeing if I could install openWRT on my current router, I might start there instead of buying anything right away, I can always grow more later as I find I’m ready to start doing x, y. or z if I find I need to.

But I’d never heard of protectli. I have a feeling that, since I was just browsing youtube to start, I mostly only learned about companies that are doing youtube sponsorships lol

I don’t think this is what I’m gonna end up doing, but I LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS. Frankensteining a bunch of shit together just makes me feel so nostalgic for how I got into PCs in the first place. MAC learning disability also made me laugh.

Can I ask what the 10 gig is for?

returns after some googling oh my LOL i see

thank you, this is a great post! I like your blog!

someone else suggested openwrt on my current EOL router, i might just try that! like, i think eventually I might still want something more robust, but it sounds like a pretty good starting point

I only got into privacy stuff like a year ago, but I was really focused on thinking about my phone and not as much my home network (unless we’re talking like, cloud services that are also accessed on desktop, I was already worried about those). That’s a spooky but totally valid thought imo. Agree, would be a good new rabbit hole to explore.

It really did, thank you :) No one else mentioned updating as far as I know, and that wasn’t something I really thought about at all, coming from a commercial router. Plus I just enjoyed your journey. I think I’ll need wireguard to safely access my NAS remotely so that’s good to know too.

In my head, it’s more of a server with router functions glued on That was also how I thought of your machine in my head by the time I got to this part of your comment

Lol thanks for that, it’s nice to talk to someone else who also just dove right in instead of the usual online experts who’ve been at it for forever 😅

Lol so real. Thank you.

Running an email server sounds super super difficult

Why wouldn’t you recommend pfsense anymore? Also what’s an NTS server for?

Thank you that’s EXTREMELY helpful! I agree that maxing out at 65w and pulling maybe 30 the rest of the time isn’t so bad, but I really wasn’t sure what to expect.

That also means if I find I actually hate it and in a year I’m like “fuck it I’m done tinkering” I didn’t spend a ton of extra money on equipment.