Ferawyn

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[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

If you want a complete unit with custom hardware and tuned custom software, look at MikroTik. Solid hardware, dependable software, good support, good community.
If you want to build your own, grab any multi-ethernet micropc from aliexpress and install OPNsense. Cheap and flexible. But you'll be on your own once (not if) something fails.
Both of these are essentially pro-level options with lots of headroom to build up to advanced services. I'd stay away from OpenWRT which is essentially just an open source consumer grade wifi router image. You'd be replacing your crappy (but supported) router with the same thing just without support.
One other option I would mention if you like nice centralized web ui's, have a look at Ubiquiti's Unify. If you can afford to go all-in on a Unify router, backbone switch and wifi access points, the combined management is really a step above the competition.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For actual hardware: Hetzner. For VPS there are many choices. Digitalocean is cheap and easy, has european data centers, and some decent value add services.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey claude, upgrade my kernel will you? Thanks!

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're right. I confused Tixati with Fopnu, another p2p tool by the same developer. Fopnu is the one with the library of files model, which I feel would be a good model for i2p. Just putting Tixati on i2p does nothing new.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Edit: I confused Tixati and Fopnu, another p2p tool by the same dev when I made this comment.
Hmm. Reading the support page, it looks like there is no actual integration with i2p in the Tixati client itself. It looks more like an existing i2p client can function as a proxy, allowing Tixati clients to communicate over i2p. Similar to how a socks proxy allows Tixati to function over any remote network, like say a vpn.

Not un-useful, but the number of Tixati users is already limited on the open internet (and heavily slanted towards certain unsavoury interests). Finding other Tixati users on i2p just limits your potential peer group further. Mixing open internet connectivity with i2p connectivity also seems like a de-anonymization vector waiting to strike.

i2p would certainly benefit from a well designed easy to understand file sharing tool like Tixati. Specifically its focus on keeping libraries of files shared for longer periods, rather than the short-term burstiness of torrents, would be a good fit. But I would want it to be significantly locked down to the i2p network, and get some code reviews, before trusting it.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

This community is for 'GIFs and pics of nude celebrities'. This isn't even close to being NSFW. She could go to church in that outfit.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

It will be perfectly reliable for a while. You'll grow to rely on it, stop thinking about it. And then one day half your drives will suddenly be gone. You won't know why, you won't know how to fix it. Your raid set will already be broken. Your data will be gone.

Don't plug and play with your data.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's a .i2p site, you need i2p up and running to access it.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"I can't think of any examples of companies that, in real life, enshittified because they were successful."
Microsoft.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
Downloads email from most providers, allows for local (text) searches, and to upload it again to an imap provider.

[โ€“] Ferawyn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

For backing up your email from gmail or any other provider, check out MailStore Home edition: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/ It will grab everything in the account and store it locally, and then allow you to push it back onto any other imap service when necessary. Great for migrating your email, and keeping a just-in-case backup.

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