ThorrJo

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I've done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.

Back when I was housing insecure but still had a place of my own to live, I first set up a point-to-point wifi link to some kids across the street to defray my internet expenses - they paid part of my bill instead of having their own internet. That was more than a decade ago and the hardware & software weren't so reliable. When the arrangement fell apart and I no longer could pay the bill, I cracked the network of some neighbors in my building and used the same antenna to provide internet for myself and 3 others in my house for about a year. The neighbors were a nice young couple so I did my best to be decent about it - set up an always-on permanent VPN and used flow control to limit our max throughput.

It's still possible to do this, and I'm still broke, so after a few years not needing to do any such thing, I cracked a network to have internet during a housesitting gig (house did not have internet).

Edit: get WiFi 6 or better gear for this. Trust me, the improvement in performance in marginal situations is well worth it. WiFi 6 was a big improvement over WiFi 5, which was a big improvement over WiFi 4, when it comes to staying connected and getting data across a dodgy link. I haven't done much straight up piracy lately but I have done plenty of leeching in parking lots, and WiFi 6 gear is absolutely worth the money.

Pirating wifi doesn't preclude any of this. See also the GL.iNet devices, such as the GL-MT3000.

Right, and my ideal situation is that all the low-quality ones stay on .world and the rest filter out to join us on smaller instances.

Just instance-block .world, as the reddit refugees end up there, the least worst will naturally filter out to other smaller instances in a helpful Darwinian selection process

I think they might be more useful than LFP and certainly than lead-acid in that role. One of the biggest issues with consumer UPS units is that they recharge very slowly after an outage, so they're mostly only useful for infrequent power cuts. If Na-ion can recharge substantially faster, it would be more useful in areas with frequent interruptions.

Supposedly they don't have the charge-discharge rate limitations that lithium iron phosphate cells do, so I'm very interested in them for backup power (UPS) applications on a consumer scale - something to keep the homelab up during a power failure of a couple hours or less.

Thank you for the work you do maintaining this space. Antagonistic users who don't know what they're talking about have myriad other places to complain, it's not necessary to endure them here.

Disclaimer: I have not attempted this

However, in my experience of resource usage on x86, a recent Pi with at least 2GB of RAM and sufficient storage, should be enough to run monerod.

As for getting linked up to the network and providing data to clients, that's another story. As I understand it, you need clients to connect in order to "help the network" (I'm hazy on this, so please correct me if I'm wrong). So you might want to find some node lists and add yours once it's up.

However, one bonus of running a local node (on a Pi or anything else) is that your wallets will sync much much faster over the local network than they will over the internet.

take a peek at lemmy.sdf.org

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