Money is fungible. Donating frees up money that would have gone elsewhere to go to this.

I used an USB Ethernet adapter on my OPNSense setup and it wasn’t stable enough. It basically required a reboot every other day. A PCI-E ethernet card solved my stability issues. Just my experience.

I think this is the primary reason. I think everyone should prepare to build your own router with upcycled older computers.

Now that I think of it, I wonder if this is why TrueNAS closed sourced their build scripts.

I just remember the earliest opposition to 3D printing becoming readily available to the mass public at cheap prices was the gun control lobby. They’re an “old” enemy to the hobby. I think this is more of an anti-privacy issue than anti-ownership/right to repair, but it is certainly both.

Yeah, kinda reminds me of when Sony music put a rootkit virus on their music CDs except this time it’s going through the state governments to encrypted things. This also feels as dumb as making math illegal in terms of outlawing encryption or making some numbers illegal because when arranged in a certain way they are an .stl file for a copyrighted character or an .mp3 file for a song.

This is just making something that is already illegal more illegal and opening a massive hole for government and corpo spying.

Anti-gun/gun control lobby would be my first guess. You can basically print all the serialized parts (the part required for registration) for most any gun then get the rest of the parts and assemble it yourself. The gun parts don’t necessarily even need to be based on an actual manufactured gun, there are designs for completely homemade guns down to the barrel using parts you can easily pick up at any hardware store. Then there are also people who are printing parts that can turn some semi-automatic guns into selectable fully automatic.

Problem is the plans are already in the wild for printing gun parts and for open source printers. I don’t know what good would accomplish to deter people from printing when the person targeted is already motivated enough to print one to begin with.

Knowing how Google makes their money, I knew going into this process that I would likely have to pay for a service or do it myself likely via self hosting. That said self hosted email is likely my final boss for digital independence. Until then, I wanna see sales.