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Cake day: August 26th, 2023

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  • I like them. Got the whole house set up with it. Yeah, big corp IT gear will have security risks. I used PoE setups to not need to run electrical to the WAPs, used an AirMax directional antenna to get wifi at an outbuilding without needing to run cable or a powerful outdoor WAP for mesh or whatever broadcasting my wifi all over the neighborhood. Works great, stable, a bit fiddly to set up but once it’s set up it’s golden. I recommend buying used off ebay for all gear except the cloud key controller.





  • I wasn’t going to bother responding to this comment because the question is ridiculous. Asking me which distro caused issues is absurd, I don’t file away what I had for lunch a month ago much less what distro caused me grief five years ago. I’ve used Mint, Manjaro, Mandriva, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Ubuntu LTE, Damn Small Linux, Raspbian, CrunchBang, Kali, Puppy, Drauger and probably a half-dozen more I’ve forgotten about. All had pluses and minuses, most got dumped after an update or upgrade caused an incompatibility, or it didn’t work with the hardware I had, that pissed me off when something I spent a great deal of time setting up stopped working or I got that black screen. My most reliable are my Raspbian systems, over 400 days of trouble-free uptime. Why dig up this old thread? Because literally today I had two distros shit the bed. My dual boot quit because I have no idea why, it disappeared from GRUB and won’t boot when added back. I have a strictly linux PC that I use for backing up DVDs and archiving old software among other things, and I hooked up a second older DVD to it and got the image posted after doing and update/upgrade. Manjaro. Another couple hours of troubleshooting and probably a reinstall. Awesome.