I have the glowrhino prybar on my keychain for 4 years now.

It’s actually one of the more useful thing I’ve kept on my body.

I can play zero dawn on mine and boy did it make train rides tolerable.

RouterOS has WG built in as well as ZeroTier. RouterOS has become quite powerful lately, but make sure you have at least an ARM/ARM64 CPU for it.

All of my remote routers are running RouterOS without anything on top of it. RouterOS is powerful enough for anything I throw on it. But I am using much beefier routers, I have 2 x 5009 and a HAP AX3 which have plenty of flash and ram ro run the additional packages I need.

As for normal computers, I have it on a UPS and I backup core files to off-site areas. Additionally, I buy SSDs that have a little bit of powerloss protection.

I’ve never had issues with mini PCs but I’ve had issues with PIs. I’ve since switched to high endurance SD cards for my Pis and they’ve been rock solid. One’s actually semi exposed to the elements for about a year now without a hiccup.

With RouterOS you can still use DoH with either a self hosted list or a selected ad list. If you want to selfhost a DNS server I’d just host a Adguard Home instance on a VPS for all of your devices.

I also have 2 VPN system for my remote management on 2 separate systems. I learned that the hard way when one of my clients is 8 timezones away.

My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.

Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I’ve tried and they’ve been unresponsive

I travel on the go often, wireless charging is too inefficient for me. I’d rather charge with my PD battery pack.

Another point, I use my PD pack to charge everything from my phone, drone, camera, to my laptop, ear buds.

Most of those don’t have a wireless charger so I just stick to wired PD charging.

I’m using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you’d want to do that?

I personally think if you’re buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.

I’m switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

Once again people blaming software people for hardware problems!

I have a chase sapphire reserve (visa) that has a credit limit of $24,000. I don’t understand why you keep picking cards with low credit limits. Do your research first then apply. Plus credit limits are based on your history with the bank and your annual income. If you have a low income, then they won’t approve a large credit limit.

Also do you not read the sign on the stores you shop at? Pretty sure they advertise which card network they accept.

You can also literally call customer service and ask for the stipulations for an increase.

Credit cards are not your clothes.

Just remember, the media is owned by the rich.

Stopping down doesn’t always give you sharper images. You may run into diffraction softening.

Focusing and then stopping down may shift your focal plane. Try to focus at your chosen aperture.

Try to use the electronic shutter function for astro photography. Even the shutter moving across the sensor can cause vibrations.

The 500 rule is useful for astro, but with modern higher resolution sensors, the NPF rule is better suited.

Not getting amazing astro shots? You may need to modify or buy a camera that is sensitive to Hα (Hydrogen-alpha) removing the infrared/IR filter off your camera will allow you to shoot full spectrum. Although you will need something to only allow 450 to 520nm and from 640 to 690nm into your sensor.

Sensors will always have dead or stuck pixels. You can take 10-20 black frames to try to help your image processor find and erase them.

Optical vignetting is common when you shoot wide open. Stop down 2-3 stops from your max aperture to try and remove the effect.

Shooting expired film is fine, just make sure you over expose 1 stop per decade it’s expired. So a 20 year old film, shoot 2 stops over exposed.

Same url as mine

https://lemmy.doesnotexist.club/pictrs/image/44f99f51-2ae9-49b0-b0c8-4ae4cb989690.png

I just wish pebble was still a thing. I miss my pebble time 2.

I still shoot film with a fully mechanical camera. Love how deliberate I could be with film.

Thank you. I don’t really like advertising it, but I also realize the more I advertise it, the more people will join.

https://pixelfed.de/randombullet

I finally have a peaceful place to throw my favorite photos into without being buried under the algorithm.

I’ve gotten more organic followers here in a few weeks than I ever had on Instagram for 4 years.

Love the community and so many people cheering you on. I’m doing my part by following as many people back and also liking their stuff.

Fried rice. Any kind, I just love fried rice.

Anything that uses GPS time (many devices use GPS as Stratum 0) would break. For example stock exchanges that use RF would become out of sync.

This includes traffic lights and various other quality of life improvements that rely on LTE and 5G connectivity. Also all mobile data would be depreciated.

Many wars that involved any precision munitions would stop.

Many air gapped facilities use GPS time as opposed to NTP which includes powerplants nuclear safe guards, and industrial systems will start to become depreciated.

Postcard with stamps to send it back to our home