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  • Without a DHD you need so much hardware to make it work.

    Why would we care about this?

    With the BC-304 class ships (or even O’Neill-class ship), we can travel to any random gate (pick any dead planet) and pick up their DHD and take it home. The problem for infrastructure only comes if there’s no ZPM and you need grid hookup to power inter-galaxy dialing.

    I don’t think that there’s any need to worry about the supporting hardware considering the access capable with the intergalactic ships (edit to pick up any needed “real” hardware /edit)… They could even import an Atlantean gate for the automatic irising features to drop that requirement too (and should fix the black hole issue… probably? I guess we don’t know if the new Atlantean gates have the same issues). Actually I would suspect importing an Atlantean gate at all would resolve most of the problems that you’ve outlined. But it doesn’t require a whole mountain to seal a gate closed. We’ve seen that just a small amount of dirt/debris burying the gate will stop a connection from being made, and we also already know that if a connection is already active that dropping a shitton of debris on it doesn’t stop the active connection.

    We’ve also seen episodes “in the future” (alt-timeline nonsense aside) where the gate was exposed for consumer travel. Which presumes that these issues could be solved.

    God I wish the show would have continued to explore some of these other concepts before ending.

    The rest of your post… yeah moving a shit-ton of personnel sucks. But the Military does it all the time. I don’t think that the general population would notice much of anything.

    Edit: I just realized… we only see the Atlantean “iris” on Atlantis itself… It’s probable that the other gates don’t have it. They would have to retrofit/clone that functionality I suppose.





  • I speak this from a place of being overweight myself. You can’t let it get to this point. I personally don’t get the stupid signal from my stomach that I’m actually full. My brain tells me all the fucking time that I’m hungry even though I’m not. I get the problem though I’ve never been this far down the road myself.

    Since you apparently are unable to read, I’ll repost this portion of my comment just for you.

    I’m 100% aware of my own problems and am dealing with them.

    I would highly suggest you work on your reading skills before pointing fingers of your own next time.



  • Then yes, you’d probably be fine with any competent minipc and your favorite flavor of firewall… I would recommend OPNSense personally, but there’s others out there that I’m sure would meet your needs.

    Just about any decent minipc can handle 1gbps from what I’ve seen a few years ago. You need much bigger horses to get up to 10gbps. But wouldn’t know what the minimum specs would be… I’ve been stuck in the higher end world for a while… So that information has kind of vanished from my memory… Someone else can chime in? I suspect the little baby n150 units could probably do 1gbps. Especially since you’re only doing minimal throughput on your wireguard as well (I have a few nodes and can push into 1gbps, so once again I’m resource heavy… and thus don’t have the lower requirements committed to memory anymore).

    ISP -> ARRIS modem -> minipc -> Switch -> anything else you need including access points.

    All of the “routers” that have wifi and a boatload of ports (unless we’re talking enterprise stuff) are all hybrid devices that are router+switch+AP, this is convenient for typical consumers, but quite restrictive for those who want to go prosumer or higher. For example… Wifi 7 just released last year. I swapped my AP out and now I have it. I can also mount that AP into the ceiling where it will give me the best coverage. Rather than the consumer answers of “replace the whole unit” or “add a shitton of mesh nodes that ultimately kind of suck” solutions that manufacturers love cause you spend more money on their products. Or other answers like you want to add a PoE device… well now that consumer unit is useless to you.


  • I reject the analogy. I’ve already stated the options any normal person would have had that would have kept them alive… and those options are quite simple of “walk to the neighbor’s house”.

    Once again, I’m GOING to sound hateful, even though I harbor no actual hate (do what you want with your life… but there’s consequences to everything). I speak this from a place of being overweight myself. You can’t let it get to this point. I personally don’t get the stupid signal from my stomach that I’m actually full. My brain tells me all the fucking time that I’m hungry even though I’m not. I get the problem though I’ve never been this far down the road myself.

    It’s even worse in this case as it’s well understood that fat people hold heat longer. The fat acts as a literal barrier to shedding heat. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30454605/

    With your argument… since being fat in of itself is never on a death certificate, it’s impossible to die for being fat. It’s always cardio issues, diabetes, kidney, or airway issues… That’s nonsense. Those issues existed because of the persons obesity. Why would this situation be any different than the others?

    Edit: Calling 911 would have also been an option once he started overheating… So I also have to wonder about the family members part of the situation. And his own inability to dial 3 digits on his phone as well.


  • We’re missing crucial information.

    What bandwidth do you get from your ISP? Do you want to run things like IDS/IPS? what kind of throughput do you want from wireguard?

    What it takes to connect a 100/10 DOCSIS based service is completely different to a 1/100 service is completely different to an 8/8gbps fiber service.

    You said wireguard on the modem… your modem shouldn’t be doing any routing of tunnels at all. I’m almost suspecting that you don’t know what the difference between a router and modem is because of this “misspeak”. If you don’t, you need to go watch some networking basics youtube videos and get a firm understanding before you commit to buying stuff that you have no idea what you’re doing with.

    In my case, I’m blessed with 8/8 fiber. I have a full fancy supermicro server running opnsense. 10gbps on the wan side, 40gbps on the lan side for multiple vlans (about a dozen). It’s overkill because my ISP offers it… but that means that the “router” I’m using to use the 8gbps is also ~$2k cost to do it. With big bandwidth comes big processing overhead if you want to do any form of protection and tunneling (VPN or SDN).

    You shouldn’t really care how many interfaces your router has outside of potentially doing LACP sort of redundancy. Use a switch to get more ports for your devices.


  • No, as “hateful” as it sounds… I’d say primary cause as well. Nothing stopped them from walking to their neighbors house and asking them if they could stick it out there for a bit since their A/C went out… Well… except for the walking part.

    They had family coming and checking on him regularly. If he wasn’t so fat that he couldn’t get out of bed, he’d have just gone to their house… No? Clearly they cared. They installed a window A/C.

    Inaction over the course of 2 days is was killed this man, the cause of inaction was his weight. His family obviously determined that they couldn’t move him… and he couldn’t move himself.

    Edit: To the point, I also live in AZ. I have a really big solar install that lets me run my house off grid and islanded (with many hours of battery as well). I’ve told my neighbors they should come over during outages. People understand what A/C means here in this state. This family shouldn’t have been blind-sided by the problem. It would have been his inability to get out of bed that limited options.


  • Sure, but my point is that it’s no different to an AUR/user repo. At some point you’re just trusting someone else.

    I think the whole “Don’t put bash scripts into a terminal” is too broad. It’s the same risk factor as any blind trust in ANY repository. If you trust the repo then what does it matter if you install the program via repo or bash script. It’s the same. In this specific case though, I trust the repo pretty well. I’ve read well more than half of the lines of code I actually run. When tteck was running it… he was very very sensitive about what was added and I had 100% faith in it. Since the community took it over after his death it seems like we’re still pretty well off… but it’s been growing much faster than I can keep up with.

    But none of these issues are any different than installing from AUR.

    The rule should just be “don’t run shit from untrusted sources” which could include AUR/repo sources.


  • Eh… I have my own repo that pulls the PVE repo and updates a bunch of things to how I want them to be and then runs a local version of the main page. While I don’t stare at every update they make… There’s likely enough of us out there looking at the scripts that we’d sound some alarms if something off was happening.





  • But we don’t live in a perfect world in many parents are absolute garbage. Many have absolutely zero technological literacy and when it comes to the parental controls that are in place, many of them are wonky or break or absolute crap and prone to failure.

    So instead of making laws that mandate companies make these features better/easier/etc… we should make the internet significantly worse and more dangerous for the other 75% of the planet?

    I have a split-brain DNS system. My young kids are whitelisted to specific school related sites and games that I choose. I NAT rewrite ALL outgoing DNS queries so it hits only my DNS server. And I block all known DoH and other “secure” DNS services. It wouldn’t be hard for an ISP or router manufacturer to setup a system like that, put some polish on it and tie it into their ISP app that they make people install these days. It could be a one click solution. I’m thinking a pop-up from the ISP app when a new device joins the network “What type of device is this?” if they click child apply all the blocks that the parent configured that they want to have block for their kids when they setup the service/router. Hell none of it even needs to call a mothership even. Can pull the same pihole lists that people already generate for this shit.

    Force the companies to provide the solutions for parents to use if they want to. That’s the better answer. Not to mandate age gates everywhere that won’t work anyway.

    Some porn sites were already age gated in that you needed a credit card to access… that shit never worked either. Regardless of the system the government forces, the better answer will always be to give parents more tools with lower thresholds of knowledge to use the tool.