Posted by LaurensBER 3 hours ago
Happy to answer any question and take suggestions as to what other software would be a good addition!
Possibly of note from my services list:
victoria-metrics : currently at 230 MB ram because I send it all kinds of metrics
victoria-logs : 114 MB ram -- log aggregator
vl-agent : 25 MB ram (log forwarder for above)
ntp : 2 MB ram
librespeed : 16 MB ram (LAN speed testing, useful for wifi / quick ethernet checks)
corentinth/it-tools : 5 MB ram
mqtt mosquitto : 5 MB ram (message broker)
smokeping : 52 MB ram (latency history)
https://github.com/apenwarr/blip : 2 MB (live DNS latency checker)
lighttpd : 2 MB (static web server serving a single homepage)
I notice that the links to the hardware in hackaday are broken but I imagine you could find this hardware somewhere.
Edit: I found the not-broken link in the blog that was linked in the hackaday article too if that helps anyone: https://extrowerk.com/2022-07-31/OpenStick.html
It might even be possible to replace the kernel in the image by the newest postmarketOS kernel to upgrade.
What I’d love to see is a stick that plugs into an Ethernet switch with PoE so you assemble a cluster just by literally plugging nodes to a cluster. For that to work, the best form factor would be a vertical board with a male Ethernet connector on one side so that it’d fit on the horizontal RJ45 on the switch and not be limited by the RJ45’s width.
I use Podman auto update for this. It looks for updated images and automatically downloads them and restarts the container.
Almost my entire self hosted setup is auto updating. A good feeling in this era of daily CVEs.
That, of course, in addition to scanning, validating, and all other sorts of paranoia, because only the paranoids survive.
Supply chain risks is a serious subject but the fact you blindly update manually or automatically doesn't change a thing.
It can be a bit of a gamble (the sellers usually don't specify the exact SOC on the description) but given the price you're not taking that much of a risk.
Worst case scenario you end up with a backup 4G dongle.
They are all the same board variant on which the SIM works and have the msm8916 chip.
The installation process is a bit involved, but once you’re up and running it runs Debian
Can you install another distro on it?
They state the alerting feature and I guess thats a big point.
Reading the doc I had the impression that the wifi chip only serves as a hotspot, but what if I want to connect the dongle to my home wifi and use it as a home server, does it make any sense?
And how do you find decently priced simcards that work in larger regions?
My N=1 experience is bad, so far.