Comment on Hardware recommendations for running OpenSense as a Firewall?

bytepursuits@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• elettrona@poliversity.it@poliversity.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  @bytepursuits @selfhosted I've tried one mini-pc about 10 years ago; what a disappointment! It was a small jewel, touching it. It ran Win10, 64GB hard disk. For a couple years it has been my emergency portable aid - I installed NVDA (non visual desktop access) screen reader in it, as JAWS for Windows, the commercial one, is very heavy. So, after a few updates from Win10, this poor machine literally became so, so slow. And, hot. It seemed to have a little oven in my hands.
  Now, I don't find anything interesting; those machine, low-priced, sold in extra-EU e-commerces, don't seem trustworthy. The second one I bought was bigger, about the size of an iPad mini. But it arrived with broken LCD screen. As a blind user, I was relying just on audio. But in the end, gearbest said "you have broken it" - money thrown in the toilet.

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  • bytepursuits@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those are exactly same products that are sold on Amazon.
    You can buy exactly these same opnsense devices from Amazon.

    Also I’m not sure what it was 10 years ago. But these days mini PCs is how most people homelab. 10w idle and enough firepower typically for most tasks.
    Obviously pick modern and some name for hardware, they are great.

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