Comment by Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net on What was your big "holy shit, adults are stupid too" moment?

i used to get that but for experimenting writing code in qbasic. was forced to delete a multi months project that basically broke my child brain and convinced me programming was naughty

I learned early on to never fix someone’s computer, or let anyone know you were doing anything with computers because as soon as something breaks it’s both you’re fault and your problem.

Made the mistake of building my own router last year and I haven’t heard the end of it. Any outage is immediately my fault. Any slowdown is my fault. Broken links, banned accounts, internet bullies, all my fault.

i’m not invalidusernamelol, but a raspberry pi + OpenWRT is one way

No! A pi makes a terrible router, you need something with a bit more power. Flash openwrt onto a cheap wireless router you already have and use it as a dumb access point for an opnsense router.

I built mine out of an old fanless pc meant for running digital signage (usually super cheap on eBay). Has like 6 HDMI ports and 2 nics. You can get a computer with more nic ports if you want more vlans/isolated networks. But for most home uses, a 2 port setup works well. One for communicating with your ISP and one for communicating with your dumb OpenWRT access point.

Good to know, hadn’t actually tried it myself

You can throw a raspberry pi into the stack as a pihole if you want. I’ve done that for a long time. Especially of the dns filtering in opnsense is causing issues, or you just like the pihole interface.

Main reason to not use a pi is that they’re notoriously unreliable and a router needs to be pretty rock solid.

Build a router? Same way you build and other computer. Just loaded opnsense into it and made sure it has as least 2 Ethernet ports.

oh yeeeah i think we all learn that eventually. after some time i told my parents that i wasn’t touching the pc no matter what ever again. told them to just call tech support or geeksquad or something

I know some very basic coding, and more like how to code not an actual working language. This didn’t stop someone from asking me to fix their physically totaled macbook.

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