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  • grue@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldServer for a boat
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    11 days ago

    Don’t forget to think about how to keep the salt air from corroding the electronics. Either build a spare or two that you keep sealed in plastic, or find an airtight case with an integrated heat sink or something.

    Edit: you might want to look into conformal coating and dielectric grease (for the connectors) as well, although I don’t know enough about that to competently give advice beyond the mere suggestion.














  • I’m still using an Archer C7 running OpenWRT that I bought years and years ago, and I like it well enough that I also bought one for my parents and a couple more as backup (when I found them for ~$10 on clearance).

    If the AX23 is just an upgraded version that is otherwise similar (i.e. can also run OpenWRT)—and I have no reason to think it isn’t—then I would consider it a fine choice.




  • I really miss the ubiquity from 2020, where it was all local.

    I was definitely leery of Ubiquity for that reason since before 2020. Even though back then it could all be local, I feel like pushing people to the cloud was already well-established as being a thing.


    My criteria for routers and wi-fi access points up to this point has basically been “can run OpenWRT and is relatively cheap,” so I’ve settled in on TP-Link. I’m still running on an old Archer C7 from a decade(?) ago and would like to have something that fits in my rack for aesthetic purposes, though, so my next router might be a 1U DIY x86 machine running OPNsense instead.