dr_analog
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Thanks for the detailed response!
What router OS are you planning on using for the Linux box?
Debian. Seems like I just need dnsmasq, nftables, wireguard and networkd to party.
Might convince myself glibc is too risky for an internet facing host and switch to Alpine.
You could use one of the technically-standard home networking wall panels, but they are NOT deep, and I wouldn't put much equipment in it if any at all.
Oh, I think I'd probably just put a patch panel on the wall so that the runs between the switch and the jacks don't directly tug on the switch itself. The switch could go in an 16U cabinet or some such.
and not have to worry about your equipment being out in the cold.
Actually, since we're planning to put our home gym in the garage (and no cars) y'all have convinced me that me and the machines would be a lot happier with a dessicant dehumidifier. Between that and an short cabinet with top exhaust we should be good. But I wouldn't have thought of this at all without posting!
Apple gear is particularly poorly behaving in terms of dealing with complex home networks. A lot of Apple/HomeKit/AirPlay stuff assumes a mostly flat LAN and can get grumpy across VLANs unless you set up mDNS/Bonjour reflection carefully... and I couldn't tell you how to do that, I'm still figuring it out myself. IoT devices that go straight to the cloud can probably do fine just with internet access.
I don't have much Apple gear and this sounds like one more reason not to start! Thanks ^_^
People love Proxmox, I have a soft spot for XCP-NG, not because I have any love for Xen but because their management and backup platforms are more flexible.
I used to virtualize stuff on my beefy box but moved away from it since taking stable and delta efficient backups was a lot more convoluted than I'd like. I ended up moving each service into its own user and hermetically sealing their dependencies to the user account so that a top-level kopia would take efficient enough snapshots. It's not quite nix-level but close enough that I should probably ask Claude to convert each one to a nix flake. (Some things like Immich are in docker and I just live with that, the important stuff is in a mapped filesystem anyway). Efficient matters because I rsync them off-site once a month. I plan to do the backups weekly once I have fiber with better upload speeds.
One thing you could do with your BEEFY linux box is run your own DNS, with ad-block capabilities.
I'm thinking this should live on the router since I'm a lot more likely to reboot or rebuild the beefy Linux box.
dr_analog
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1d ago
People hate finance bros too are you kidding.
dr_analog
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1d ago
Agreed, it has a lot going for it even if the lyrics are a bit try-hard.
I set up UniFi stuff for my brother's company but the APs weren't very reliable either, though the shininess of the rest of their stack was pretty nice. I'm mostly just going to edit iptables rules by hand like a neckbeard though.
I have a few recommendations for the Omada\ APs today in 2026 so I'll take a risk with them. I would probably just disable any smart stuff they try to do and manually set their power and see if it'll let me get away with it.
A box with a fan is a solid idea. Ditto for the UPS.
I got a new house. It's significantly bigger than my last house. I think I'm looking at like 5-10 hours of home network engineering to get it put together. Please critique my stack.
- Fiber hookup in my garage
- Router: fanless small Linux PC with dual Intel NICs in garage
- Omada 8 port PoE switch, also in garage
- Omada WiFi APs, probably 3 at various spots in the house
- One beefier Linux box for home services/storage on Ethernet: Immich, that home YouTube clone, etc
The house has existing coax cable runs to various rooms, which must go. I'm thinking of taping cat6 cable to the coax terminals and pulling them to try to re-run those paths as cat6. This way the coax jacks are replaced with Ethernet jacks. Avoids drilling new holes. Have them all terminate at the switch in the garage. Can put either full desktops or APs on the ends.
I'm planning on 2 vlans. One for the humans and home services. The other vlan for cloud-IoT shit that can only access the Internet and not even cross talk to each other.
dr_analog
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2d ago
I was going through a terrible breakup that involved a big betrayal when this song came out and I couldn't listen to it without my heart rate racing. It captured that "my whole world is turned upside down" energy too well. I think that's what people are relating to.
I'm fine listening to it now.
dr_analog
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4d ago
I find him a lot more relatable than anyone in Trump's orbit, that's for sure. Guessing he'd immediately relapse if he went anywhere near a tough job though
Come to think of it, I'm surprised politicians and other figures aren't caught doing crack with black prostitutes in DC constantly. They're away from their homes and families, stressed, and surrounded by poor black people.
The AI boom is mostly funded by private capital so the blast radius should be limited. Does anyone need to bail out Google or Facebook or Microsoft or Oracle? Nah.
The 2008 crash saw banks imploding due to correlated defaults and the government needed to bail them out because the economy needs banks to exist. This was pretty bad but the crash was only about 50% from a 2007 high and recovered within 5 years.
A crash to pre-AI markets in 2023 is one possible regression, which would be about a 40% drop. But this would mean ignoring all utility provided by AI aside from speculative gains.
The biggest unknowns are if a mildly bad crash causes a general mood of fear and depression to set in and make things much worse. Also, a big implosion in private capital could reveal unanticipated systemic risks.
I can't really get a clear picture either way.
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