are those ubiquiti switches at the top? Im a ubiquiti fanboy but only have rack mounted dream machine and other non rack mounted devices (usg, switch, key, lte, etc)
yea udm se to 10gbit aggregation to 24port managed switch⌠dont run much ethernet now or days
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Nice DXEngineering sticker. Is that a splitter or sdr (kraken?) on top of your storage array?
I have 10gbe rj45 nic in each server, and have the cat5e cables pretty much all replaced with cat6a cables, but cant bring myself to shell out for a new firewall and switch so the only 10gbe connection is between my file and backup server which is fine because everything else is 1gbe anyways. Probably only a $800 upgrade or so, then +$20/mo for 2gig from the local isp ($70/mo total).
$120 for 5gig
$300 for 10gig
Im not that impatient, rarely saturate the wan 1gbe except the rare download, but hit 1gbe internally quite often.
$407 TRENDnetâs 8-Port 10G Unmanaged Switch
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$250 firewall, should be more than enough for 10gbe pf and suricata. The r630 can be linuxbooted
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Plus another ~$100 for storage and nic.
Yea that is a specialty SDR called a red pitaya and the white thing is a FLIR lepton 3.1r
Have you looked at Ubiquiti? I am more than pleased with them. I think my 10g aggregation switch was like $499 none of my network devices were more than $600. The 10g seems like overkill, untill you can have âbusâ speeds over lan. Then you just start seeing endless potential.
I have data center experience, and have used everything, Cisco, Brocade, Juniper etc etc. and the ubiquiti stuff is pretty much on point (for a home) there isnât alot missing.
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Never heard of the red pitaya before, looks like it would make a solid hf rig and even better in the lab toolbox. Lets see some flir thermal pics! Is it monitoring something or just there for when you need it?
Just got my Extra license and looking for my first modern radio that isnt a baofeng (shame on me I know). I have a bunch of rtlsdrs, sdrplay duo, and a beautiful Kenwood TS520 with all the goodies (matching 2nd VFO, tuner, speaker, and desk mic) that I inherited from my great grandma. She decided she didnt like analog display and got a digital display radio (not sure of the model) so itâs basically brand new, but I fear needs the electrolytic capacitors changed out, and Iâm scared shitless Iâm gonna break it if I do it myself.
I generally like the ubiquity AP stuff. Prefer to use open source and dumb switches wherever possible, and I think all the ubiquity stuff at this level is managed(?). Ive seen some sweet ubiquity setups and it all integrates with pretty interfaces, maybe one day open source will catch up.
Do you use discord? There is a BRAND NEW airspace tracking project using adsb on 1090. Itâs actually pretty fun itâs called wingbits. Itâs still SUPER early, but thatâs kinda where the advantage comes in, and you will likely be interested in it anyway.
I got the lepton on a tcam board from group gets, all in I think the device was like $225 and the performance is fucking crazy. Itâs also radiometric, so every pixel has thermal data. 
and the red pitaya is a ham radio god send 
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Nope. XMPP. I could be convinced to try matrix again but dropped it a few years ago when they did the switch to element and broke stuff.
https://www.wingbits.com/ ?
And GitHub - ketilmo/balena-ads-b: ADS-B Flight Tracker running on balena with support for FlightAware, Flightradar24, PlaneFinder, OpenSky Network, RadarBox, ADSB Exchange, Wingbits, and UAT. looks like the open source go to (what do you use?)
Ill take a deeper look at it though. Apparently can net you a couple hundred bucks a year which would be dope (thought this hobby was entirely sunk cost). Sdrblog talks about it a lot ads-b
I have yet to do any sat tracking, or airplanes for that matter. Just stuck to the boring bands, analog telephone and cw, mostly due to my setup.
yea wingbits.com, i use a radarbox SDR its basically an RTLSDR and just run it on my little odroid services server. readsb, influx, mqtt, and a few other services.
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I like their APs, theyâre reliable and hard to beat on performance per $. I find their networking hardware is acceptable but I much prefer mikrotik gear, as itâs much more customizable. I stay away from their non-networking stuff, as they seem to like to randomly EOL hardware.
yea iâm kinda over the whole running stuff into the dirt. I have made it to a point where these toys are what i consider my âtruckâ âgunsâ âmotorcycleâ whatever A-Typical man toy. So i been buying with âwarrantyâ and expecting to EOL after that and upgrade unless we havenât iterated.
Im also so tired of paying for electricity, everything i have been personally working on is reducing my inputs and dependancies for the grid, both at home and at cultivation. I pulled all my 1u and 2u servers out, and now i just run everything virtualized off a Ryzen with 64gb of ram, or i use stuff like high performance SBC on the SAN. I can run my entire network and all my âserversâ for like 90 min just on APC batteries, and thats more than enough time to get my generator setup. My power bill went down almost half, when i pulled the full sizesâŚ
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sdr++ servers running on the pi connected to various SDRs
X11 forwarding to the weak laptop from the server running the sdrpp client.
Can easily get to 500mbps but with compression 3 sessions is around 100mbps.
93Ft longwire, uhf/vhf mast, and discone pictured.
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Just wanted to leave some breadcrumbs for newbs who are on windows and want to test Linux, with no risk of destroying their system. Instruction copied from here with my own pazzaz
Download Ubuntu Desktop here > Thank you for downloading Ubuntu Desktop | Ubuntu
Install https://etcher.balena.io/
Plug in a blank / non critical usb, run etcher
Select the ISO and USB drive.
Wait until itâs finished. Restart your computer with the USB still inserted
This is the hard part. You need to figure out which key gets you into boot option mode for your bios. Sometimes it requires mashing DEL, sometime F12, Sometimes F2. Google âYOUR MOTHERBOARD/pc model/laptop boot optionsâ HMU if you really cant find it.
Once you get to the boot menu, select the USB. this will boot linux. Donât worry about installing it or anything, just use firefox and see how much faster it is. It will be even faster actually installed on your hdd. I donât see any reason to run windows other than Gaming. If you game online hardcore linux is probably not for you, if you game offline hardcore you are probably good to go and can easily play your games (https://www.protondb.com/).
Ubuntu is well known and you are very unlikely to have an issue that someone else hasnât had. Meaning you can google the issue and have answer and solution with a quick google (or again, ask me).
There are more privacy friendly linux OS than ubuntu, but this is by far the easiest ready to go.
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Holy crap. I missed a lot on this thread.
My Raspberry Pi 5 is kicking. I switched from RaspberryOS (Debian) to Kali (Debian) and uninstalled the cruft. I like the interface a lot better as a desktop.
Iâm going to install Batocera after work to test it out. I just bought one for a customer to hook his Argus sensors into for his grow room. What canât these little SBCâs do these days?
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I would avoid kali for daily desktop use because the sheer amount of tweaks for all their tools, even if you remove the tools there are a lot of security concerns and unsafe permissions when used as a non-amnesic system.
Kalis default DE is xfce4 which is my goto desktop, and is super easy to theme, you can drop the kali theme on a regular debian/raspbian/ubuntu xfce install which have much saner defaults for daily use.
You should try out lakka.tv, basically the same thing as batocera (front end for retroarch) but is a little slimmer, a bit less flashy, and will give you slightly better performance and less clutter. Some people love the flashy theming though
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Iâve been holding off on asking for a while and donât want to start a new thread. Are there any plans to make a Future4200 OS?
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Future 4200 OS? You mean Tails with Future 4200 bookmarked in the browser? 
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No I mean like a TailsOS but instead itâs all Future4200 themed and the only thing you can do other than use future is search the DataDump. 
And yes Iâm 100% serious.
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Thatâs not too bad, now that I think of it. I would include Sci-hub as well as some other resources, even though I think the shadow libraries got taken down.
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Exactly! Stuff like that!!!