I should probably give in and get the Puli, I dislike non-replaceable batteries but I’m sure if it dies before I upgrade to 5G and give the device away I could figure out how to replace it.

The Spitz AX looks awesome for e.g. an RV base station etc, but too many antennas for travel use. I used old Spitz on Amtrak with some success. I wish they had a similar 5G unit with 2x external 5G antennas, and internal antennas only for wifi.

Maybe I will get my wish someday, GLi do like producing a variety of devices on a theme…

I have a Spitz, just don’t plan to run a VPN on the device itself as the CPU is very slow and will limit max thruput.

in the USA, LiFePO4 battery cost of drop-in 12V replacements has fallen to the point where lead-acid may no longer make sense for projects like this.

But why doesn’t it ever empty the swap space?

Why would it do anything with the swapped-out pages if they are never subsequently accessed?

Paging them back in for no reason is not an effective use of CPU time or system memory.

Congrats, you’ve arrived at the right place!

Source: I subscribed to a ton of Lemmy communities to quit Reddit, and the selfhosting ones are so active they routinely push other communities down below the fold unless I sort by new.

btw if you haven’t got into Proxmox yet, have a look at it.

If for some reason you don’t like the look of NUT, and you get an APC UPS (and maybe some others?), there is always apcupsd. It will run shell scripts upon certain events, etc. Old, simple, works.

I’ve lived in areas where Comcast stayed up during long outages and areas where it didn’t. Not sure about FTTN, but I don’t think consumer broadband services are required to stay up during an outage like copper phone service is.

Take a look at the “AOOSTAR WTR PRO AMD Ryzen 7 5825u 4 Bay Nas Mini PC”

N100 ain’t it.

Maybe i3-N305… or a mini PC with AMD H-series chip (or similar) configured TDP-down if you are concerned about power usage or fan noise.

Not sure if Wireguard over obfs4proxy is doable easily on OpenWRT yet, but it may be an option

Very easy to find good deals (and parts) on these 1L business PCs!

Testing an image post from Voyager client…

I only own the gear marked A and B, which lives above the couch I call home.

A is my web services 24/7 Proxmox box, an Intel 8500T; 2 routers; an 8TB HDD; and a Back-UPS Pro so old its ethernet surge protection is rated for 100bT, with a brand new LFP battery in it. The UPS powers both A and B.

B is my personal Proxmox box, an AMD 5750GE, which I use for development and running desktop OSes which I remote into, plus a GL.iNet Slate AX router. These come with me if I stay someplace other than the couch (not pictured). That’s why they’re on different shelves. Also, there’s a USB wifi dongle w/antenna connected to B which I used when some stupid website demands I drop my VPN (all traffic from everything pictured is routed thru 24/7 private VPN endpoints, aka a $2/mo VPS or three).

Check out ServeTheHome’s “Project TinyMiniMicro” on Youtube for a great overview of ultra-small form factor (“1 liter”) business PCs.

The big three PC makers each have standardized products in this form factor with (relatively speaking, compared to smaller manufacturers) tons of spare parts available.

Go with used & refurb business PCs right out of the gate instead of fucking around with SBCs like the Pi.

Go with “1-liter” aka Ultra Small Form Factor right away instead of starting with SFF. (I don’t have a permanent residence at the moment so this makes sense for me)