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You don’t have cable, but you do have DSL, which means that you do need a DSL modem. It’ll have a phone jack, an RJ-11, and you’ll plug a phone cable into it. Looks like an RJ-45 Ethernet jack, but smaller.

I have seen recommended the GL·INet Flint 2 GL-MT6000 openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt6000

I’ve used a Flint 2 GL-MT6000. Works fine for me. If you want a high-spec new OpenWRT machine, it’s near the top end, from my skim. It may be overkill if you don’t intend to do anything elaborate.

and is also failing a lot lately (it loses internet connection at least once a week and needs restarting).

So, you’re still going to need to have a cable modem or DSL modem or whatever, if you have cable or DSL service, and it (or some other hardware, if you can get that working) going to be necessary for that bit. There are three pieces to this equation: a modem or whatever translates your satellite/long-range-wireless/cable/DSL/etc link to your ISP to Ethernet. A wireless access point, to provide WiFi. A router, to NAT connections, do things like setting up what traffic goes where, what’s blocked, etc. The Flint 2 will act as a wireless access point and as a router. But it doesn’t have a modem built in.

You can turn off a lot of functionality on your ISP-provided router, but you’re going to keep it in the loop (with the Flint 2 plugged into it) unless you have the ability to use an alternative modem. It may be possible to replace it with a different modem, depending upon your particular situation; I believe that some ISPs may embed authentication information in the modem specifically to keep people from using alternatives.

Thus, if the ISP-provided router keeps failing in that configuration, this isn’t going to fix your problem. You can reduce the functionality that the thing uses, like, maybe throw it into bridge mode (which just passes traffic through, doesn’t NAT anything) and let the Flint 2 act as a router. That’ll reduce what the ISP-provided router does, and if that’s triggering some bug on the thing, that might resolve your problem.

If the existing router is honestly failing in some way—like, once it has problems, it never comes back without a reboot, isn’t just connectivity problems—you might request a replacement.

If none of the above fixes your problem (i.e. the ISP-provided router, stays in the loop and keeps failing and only a reboot fixes things) a mitigation, albeit not a fix, would be to set something up on your network to ping the outside world and then power-cycle the router automatically if it fails for a certain amount of time.

Also, part of the point of Tor is to let various types of traffic reside in the noise.

It’s like…say the only encrypted emails being sent contained stuff that one’s government didn’t like. It’d kind of stand out.

I believe, from long-ago reading, that you can pick a region. I don’t use it myself, though.

Have you tried Tor?

M-Discs are also useful as very long term archival storage.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC

In 2022, the NIST Interagency Report NIST IR 8387[25] listed the M-Disc as an acceptable archival format rated for 100+ years, citing the aforementioned 2009 and 2012 tests by the US Department of Defense and French National Laboratory of Metrology and Testing as sources.

I’m kind of assuming that OP intended to crosspost elsewhere and selected the wrong community.

So, I’d just use Samba or whatever to share it too. It’ll do a number of things better, like letting software render for an appropriate page size in the printer automatically.

However, OP is specifically trying to avoid using this route, because he’s concerned about people having trouble with setting it up on their client devices, so he just wants to bypass all that and to have a Web UI where one uploads the document after it’s been rendered to a PDF or similar.

CUPS didn’t work for me as I can’t see an upload option on the web UI.

CUPS is really intended as the backend. Whatever software you run will talk to CUPS.

I’be never used it, but Savapage appears to be such a frontend.

Hmm.

A lot of these are going to be just request-driven.

If the idle memory usage is an actual concern…I kind of assume that someone has built some sort of system that works like inetd — you register a port, and then inetd listens on it. When someone connects, it starts up the daemon. Just need to start the container on demand.

how i dream of buy a few 12 tb drives.

Rotational hard drive prices are up, but not that far, not like RAM, especially if you’re not getting the largest drives possible.

1000009451

That’s maybe a doubling on 12TB drives from the trough. I mean, sure, it’s significant, but if you were already talking about getting several, you can certainly get one.

You didn’t really have a 3D printer setup until its various lights were being driven by a DMX512 rig.

Rule #2.

Rule #3.

Rule #7.

Rule #8.

Like, he literally managed to violate half of the community rules in one post.

My Linux distro already comes with a PDF merger.

$ for i in ($seq 1 5); do echo $i >$i.txt; pandoc -o $i.pdf $i.txt; done

Now I’ve got five PDF files to merge.

$ pdfunite *.pdf merged.pdf

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRC_(file_format)

For time-synchronized lyrics.

It looks like my Scandroid audio files from Bandcamp have embedded non-synchronized lyrics.

$ metaflac --list *08*

    comment[12]: UNSYNCEDLYRICS=Beware the shadows of the drones 
Destruction wrapped in pretty silicone 
They’ve taken everyone I’ve known 
And now I walk these empty streets alone 

In my memory the past is fading 
The future has been redesigned 
It’s hard to focus on it when I’m running out of time 

Surrounded by streetlights at midnight 
My destination is unknown 
I walk these empty streets alone 
Digital dreams thrive in the moonlight 
I’m only flesh, circuit and bone 
I walk these empty streets alone 

Beware the faces of the clones 
Deception sent from Neo-Tokyo 
They’ve erased everyone I’ve known 
And still I walk these empty streets alone

Note that lyrics are themselves copyrighted works, regarding simply sharing them.

You can see every hop an IP packet takes at IP level with traceroute or mtr.

If you have Magic Sysrq enabled, you can do Magic Sysrq-t, which may give you some idea of what the system is doing, since you’ll get stack traces. As long as the kernel can talk to the keyboard, it should be able to get that.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_sysrq

You maybe can’t see anything on your monitor, but if the system is working enough to generate the stack traces and log them to the syslog on disk (like, your kernel filesystem and disk systems are still functional), you’ll be able to view them on reboot.

If it can’t even do that, you might be able to set up a serial console and then, using another system running screen or minicom or something like that linked up to the serial port, issue Magic Sysrq to that and view it on that machine.

Some systems have hardware watchdogs, where if a process can’t constantly ping the thing, the system will reboot. That doesn’t solve your problem, but it may mitigate it if you just want it to reboot if things wedge up. The watchdog package in Debian has some software to make use of this.

DDG mostly. I’m not unhappy with Kagi on any particular technical aspect, but I’m not happy about the fact that I learned that it was operating out of Serbia (it was often listed as being based in the San Francisco Bay Area; this appears to actually be a residence of the founder). I’d be much more comfortable about them getting in practical legal trouble if they wound up retaining data if they were operating in a US or EU or something legal jurisdiction. I posted about it to !kagi@programming.dev a while back.

If they moved operations to the US or somewhere like that, I’d have no problem using them.

The publishers can do it via uploading beta branches, but there’s also a way to tell the Steam client to fetch old versions independently of that. I remember it coming up specifically with Skyrim, because updates broke a lot of mods environments, and it takes a long time for a lot of mods to be updated (during which time people couldn’t play their modded installs).

searches

steamcommunity.com/app/…/4032473829603430509/

The download_depot Steam console command.

The linked (non-Skyrim-specific) guide talks about how to obtain manifest IDs for versions of other games.

But, yeah. It’s really not how Steam’s intended to be used, and I imagine that hypothetically, one day, it could stop working.

There are also IIRC some ways to block Steam from updating individual games, but again, not intended functionality.

searches

steamcommunity.com/…/3205995441631274440/

If you specifically want control over game updates for some game, then GOG can be a major benefit for that.

I would guess that he’s looking for a response to someone pointing out that Steam has a larger game library than GOG.

Like, he’s gonna say “yes, but a higher proportion of the excluded games aren’t good”.

I mean, it’s true that there are lots of games sold on Steam that aren’t great games, but that doesn’t hurt me much.

There are lots of products on Amazon that aren’t that great.

There are lots of websites on the Internet that aren’t that great.

As long as I can get to the stuff I want, all good.

Took down Framework’s website, which I was using.

Just keep in mind that the long run trend is pretty strongly downwards; that’s a log-scale graph.

Org-mode in emacs.

There are various mobile clients.

If you have something to synch files, it’s just syncing org files. Probably mostly interesting to people who use a lot of emacs on a PC, though.