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  • datenwolfdatenwolf@chaos.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 2:22 PM

    A couple of days ago I jumped into / joined a discussion about self-hosting. Specifically, that yes, people should self-host *everything*, and no, that doesn't mean that they're supposed to learn everything about it.

    The idea is, that one could buy a self-hosting hub, appliance style, in the electronics store of choice, power it up, that thing asks for the name, or a backup to restore, and then does everything required. Not a new idea, see datenwolf.net/missing.html#5

    Anyway, hardware…

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  • datenwolfdatenwolf@chaos.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

    A few years ago my prime choice as a base platform for this kind of thing would have been some PC-Engines APU board. Alas, those no longer are made.

    What it comes down to is having a hardware platform – essentially a consumer grade router – with enough oomph to run the required services. It doesn't take that much, but unfortunately your average consumer router is usually under equipped on storage and RAM.

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  • datenwolfdatenwolf@chaos.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 2:27 PM

    However, as of recently TP-Link – in Germany – is selling a consumer grade router device that's placed direct competition to the popular FRITZ!Box routers you can find in about 1/3rd of the households here.

    Of course TP-Link doesn't specify on their product page, what and which amount of hardware this thing runs on. But… they do point you toward a source code download for GPL compliance, in other word, this thing definitely does run Linux.

    My OS of choice would be NetBSD though…

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  • datenwolfdatenwolf@chaos.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 2:29 PM

    So here's the question: For the upcoming gloom-season shall I buy one of those TP-Link-Boxes and see if I can make NetBSD run on them?

    4/4 poll

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  • V4N4D1SV4N4D1S@mastodon.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 3:25 PM

    @datenwolf go for it, if you're having fun doing it or enjoy the learning experience.

    On a different note: ipu-system.de/
    bit more expensive than a consumer router bit you can install any normal OS on it and run whatever you want, i.e. Opnsense/Proxmox etc.

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  • datenwolfdatenwolf@chaos.social
    Oct 19, 2026, 3:30 PM

    @V4N4D1S

    Doesn't have an built-in DSL modem, though, which is part of the appeal. A router offering that gives you a well designed and configured self-hosted environment out of the box would enormously lower the bar of entry.

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