The water is not that hot!

My guy Wendell says that Hardware Raid is Dead and is a Bad ldea in 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l55GfAwa8RI

I shill audiobookshelf every chance I get.

Over six days, that’s about two megabytes per second, so 16mbit/sec. Residential plans are often 25 or 35 mbit/sec in the US on cable.

A similar traffic pattern might be a 4k security camera, typically 10mbit/sec, and likely over a VPN.

Similar to forwarding all DNS traffic to my pihole, I also forward 123 to the opnsense NTP server.

I think Dr CD outlined a specific arc that companies follow, but the term has been co-opted to mean any process that drives out competition before turning the screws on their customers. Did Netflix follow the three steps?

Netflix was certainly good to its subscribers 15 years ago.

Were they then good to their business customers (studios) at the cost of the users? I don’t think they were ever good to studios.

Have they now clawed back surpluses for themselves? Abso-fuckin-lutely.

I think step 2 is the key to the original definition, and the one commenters often ignore. All companies burn cash to get started. All companies try to become a monopoly, and monetize everything once they do.

The controller also handles roaming, as I understand it. I have a software controller on a VM. They provide a .deb! I have 3 EAP670s and an EAP-655-Wall. Roaming works perfectly on phones and laptops. I have a hidden SSID on each individual AP that I use to lock dumber stuff. Some devices fight the AP Lock on Omada.

I see the value in going 100% omada, but I couldn’t justify the cost of the switches I’d need. Their routers look good for the price too, but my use case is a notch or two above their target market.

But a company is a sum of these (and other) people. In this case, it’s a draw at best, not a win.

WAN, LAN, management And one to grow on!

I run pihole on proxomox, and also opnsense in the same box. Then you can forward all port 53 traffic to your pihole. Some devices have hard-coded DNS that will bypass the DHCP DNS.

Yup. It’s got built in browser based text reader and an audio player.

FYI, readarr needs separate instances for audio and text. Wasn’t worth the hassle for me

https://www.audiobookshelf.org/

Not much you can select for with desktop parts. Maybe get dual Ethernet now so you don’t want to add a card later. And more disks, more power so one bigger drive is better than two smaller…

Might be better to suspend it, and wake on lan when you want to play.

I remember that was a Roku selling point back in the day

Avoid Intel based solutions https://lookgadgets.com/articles/intel-puma-modems-list/

Almost all 32x8 (capable of 1 gig) docsis 3 modems are going to be puma based.

No reason not to get docsis 3.1 unless you are truly cash strapped. That leaves the SB8200 if you’re ok with 1Gbe ports, or the S33 if you want a 2.5 port.