IMO, the more self hostable options we have for services, the better. This sounds like a good idea to me.
Good luck with your project and thank you for taking the time to contribute to the free and open source community.
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Yea opensense is the less polished than pfsense, but its decent from what I've heard.
I'm not familiar with Idirectord of shorewall. Do you run all that locally? Tbh peplink is ok for the most part but because starlink goes on and off so often, it can get stuck sometimes and because I can't have a lot of granular control with its load balancing.
Not using that specifically but I have to load balance my internet between starlink and 4g due to the area I live in where the only other option is suffer with 1.5 DSL. Even what I'm doing now is only mostly ok but I'm surrounded by trees.
Due to the restrictions of a lot of providers for mobile data, I use the 5g store with Verizon network, and had to use one of their routers, went with a peplink as at the time, it was the cheapest option.
Peplink does a pretty good job of load balancing between the different connections but i wouldnt use them unless you really have to.
You could use pfsense or opensense to load balance between two connections if thats what your after.
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If anyone hasn't seen the videos Jim Browning did a while back about gaining access to a india scam call centers network and subsequently, thier cameras, its a fascinating watch but also pretty concerning.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBNmQJqxpaMaxqghShRiOnHUjO00ZCsor
One of the worst parts is that sometimes the police are on the scammers payroll, making it hard to take action. It would likely take an international effort to even make a dent against these kinds of places. They make a ton of money off these scams so its going to keep happening.
This is the way. My brother printer is a hl2040, came out sometime in the early 2000s. It still prints. I've replaced the toner cartridge once since my Dad gave it to me back in 2016.
The other day I needed to print something out and this was after I had reinstalled linux.
Just fired right up, instantly recognized. Its one of the best pieces of hardware I own.
Iovance Biotherapeutics has priced the therapy, branded Amtagvi, at $515,000 per patient.
Well thank goodness these kind souls made it so affordable. And im sure it will come down in price after its really proven to be effective right?
I'm sure the RnD for this was expensive af but ffs man, even with insurance thats probably going to be out of reach for so many people.
TL:DR, yes you can. But its not nearly as reliable as wired internet and is dependant on where you are.
I'm currently living in a place where only DSL is available for wired internet and its 1.5 mbps down at maximum so this is essentially my situation. I dont self host anything currently as I'm kind of in between projects but I could in theory self host something and access it remotely.
What I'm currently using for internet is a load balanced connection between starlink and lte. I'd recommend just using lte if possible. Starlink is good but it can be very spotty.
I'm surrounded by trees and the towers near me are old and go down more often that I would like or get bogged down so I need starlink but due to the trees it goes down frequently. Every minute or so. Sometimes I get 5 minutes of internet through it and thats fun.