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psidhu | 4 years ago | on: Substantially more monarch butterflies have arrived in California to overwinter

I've been living in the Grover Beach area for ~4 years, but visiting the monarch grove for about 15. This year has been _one_ of the better so far. With the milkweed I planted at the house I bought this year here, and milkweed I've seen my neighbors planting, I hope to continue to the uprise of their proliferation. That being said, my parents reported that in the 80s, there were about 2000x more of them than even now, so...

psidhu | 5 years ago | on: Let’s redesign the laptop for a work-from-home era

Not necessarily good for people wearing glasses!

I bought one and it glares off of mine a lot so I stopped using it. Other angles where the glare stops makes me look like a sociopath.

psidhu | 5 years ago | on: Cockpit – Integrated, glanceable, web-based interface for servers

I first ran into Cockpit when I put Fedora 33 Server Edition on an RPi. Needless to say, I was blown away by it and now keep it enabled on several servers I run.

I highly recommend it to anyone here, especially on something like a headless server where you don't want or can't have an X11 UI running.

psidhu | 5 years ago | on: Ubiquiti Networks Breach

I would suggest looking into Mikrotik. Bit of a steep learning curve and a prerequisite that you understand networking, but cheap, reliable, feature packed.

Their WiFi APs are behind the curve (no mu-mimo even afaik), but you can just hook up some other wAP if you need the newer protocol features.

What I do is keep a Mikrotik router that does all the heavy stuff and hang wAPs off of it as needed. I especially love capsman for wAP management. They do have all-in-ones of course, just not my cup of tea.