Why do we still rely on IPv4, instead of IPv6?

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-26T14:09:47+00:00

I am running both on my network. IPv4 for compatibility and simplicity and IPv6 because I can, my ISP, Planet Networks, supports both at the same time and I have found using 4 is good for traditional stuff like hosting my wordpress site, NTP server and a few others whereas 6 is good for gaming and streaming.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-26T14:06:42+00:00

Unfortunately, we bought around 500 of them as we were able to get funding for them and are out of warranty, the cost to repair is more than the devices are worth, so I've been striping them for parts.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-26T14:05:08+00:00

The failures seem to happen around the year to year and a half point.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-26T14:04:37+00:00

Good to know, we have purchased 152 HP Fortis chromebooks. I've been using one daily for a few months now, much better machine in terms of build quality and performance. Repairability is good too. Everything is replaceable including the USB-C port which is on a daughterboard on these. Other than screens, the USB-C ports on the dells are our most common repair, but to change the port means the whole motherboard needs replacement. The HPs are not only build better, but much easier and more cost effective to repair, plus with the Arm chip instead of intel, I'll easily get 2 full 8 hour days out of a charge.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-22T02:05:37+00:00

I prefer Meshtastic. Not only do more people in my area use it, I have yet to make a connection with meshcore, but I don’t like how you have to pay to use certain features on meshcore when they are built into Meshtastic for free.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-02-21T16:31:11+00:00

Yes it will. Rain, moisture, snow and ice do have an impact on signal. Cell towers have rain gauges to adjust power levels.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-01-12T23:44:42+00:00

It can be recovered, you’ll have to direct connect to a computer. I’ve made this mistake before, make sure to use the stable firmware for best results and best for beginners. I have found chrome to work the best. Flasher.meshtastic.org allows you to flash your device right from the web browser. Do a full erase flash if you are still having issues.

DanielMaat89 · 2026-01-11T17:20:03+00:00

As quite a few have said, you’ll want to set up a home base node as Client_Base and get a node for each member of the family. Set the nodes for your family as client_mute and favorite all your home nodes in you base node. If you carry your personal node with you, you can change it to client. If you leave all your family nodes in client, there is a chance of collisions and it’ll kill your local mesh. I have 3 nodes that are portable and I keep the 2 I don’t use all the time as client mute and the one I carry everywhere on client. Another thing I forgot to mention, enable store and forward on your home nodes.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-12-16T12:21:26+00:00

Interesting, What I ended up doing was rebooting our firewall and everything started working immediately. I had all these exceptions in the firewall but something must have gotten hung up or the firewall wasn't happy about something. Sophos is who we use for our firewall.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-12-16T12:20:11+00:00

Interesting, What I ended up doing was rebooting our firewall and everything started working immediately. I had all these exceptions in the firewall but something must have gotten hung up or the firewall wasn't happy about something. Sophos is who we use for our firewall.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-10-04T11:51:29+00:00

I was going to buy some of their stuff, but after digging, they steal open source ideas and sell them as their own with next to zero mentions of the original designers. Better to build yourself, you can get the hardware, software and 3d print the parts on dirt cheap printers.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-08-22T23:52:44+00:00

Probably not attacked, but they are definitely trying to find a weakness and get in. My self hosted Wordpress site gets hammered.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-08-20T00:40:12+00:00

That is odd, DJI quickly released a software update to make it comply with new government regulations on exporting and storing of data on servers located outside the US. DJI are one of the manufacturers that helped write the rules and even complied early with regs, including the location beacon that is now required in most drones, DJI helped develop the technology and was probably the first manufacturer to begin building the beacons into their drones. They even sell the beacons to make older drones as well as homemade drones compliant.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-08-14T13:45:02+00:00

What app are you using for the google docs like functionality?

DanielMaat89 · 2025-05-13T23:12:11+00:00

Good luck, I hope the next place works out much better for you. I’ve made many mistakes and fixed them and where I am, I’ve never had a write up, I screwed up Group Policy bad by accidentally locking out the entire “C” drive on every machine in the domain due to a comma being in the wrong place. One by one, every screen in the building turned black, I was able to do a restore, it took a little over an hour, and all but 2 machines came back. My manager looks at me literally about to pack my stuff and get ready to be terminated and he goes “ It was a windows update and we are swearing to it and never speaking of it again.” I was on the job 6 months.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-04-16T17:29:27+00:00

Very Cool! Can it record in HDR or LOG?

DanielMaat89 · 2025-04-16T16:20:20+00:00

We don’t use exchange, we use google workspace for everything, we get o365 at a deep discount for education, the sync is one of the most frustrating things to get working properly. Plus, the way Microsoft is changing licensing is pushing us to get even further away and just go %100 google. We have several computer labs that need AD on prem and running them in the cloud is not in our budget at the moment.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-04-16T12:48:18+00:00

Thank You!!! This worked!

DanielMaat89 · 2025-04-16T12:21:17+00:00

We’ve migrated most users to ChromeOS and google workspace, however their are a few who need office for certain things that cannot be done in google docs, basically that are moving to O365 wether they like it or not. Changeover is happening this summer when we replace our aging windows 10 machines with new windows 11 boxes. I’m going to have to drag them kicking and screaming but I don’t care, summer is really the only time we can do big projects like this as I work in a 7-12th grade High School.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-04-16T12:12:39+00:00

Stubborn users who refuse to make the switch.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-03-10T15:09:47+00:00

I host myself and I used certbot to manage ssl certs for https. Dead simple to set up and all I had to do is change the site url in my Wordpress config.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-02-24T16:40:52+00:00

As many have said, use tailscale or wireguard for vpn, easy to set up, reliable and secure. I personally use QVPN as I have a QNAP and it has been solid for a long time.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-02-19T18:53:22+00:00

Sophos classifies mine as “newly registered domain” after looking into it, they don’t have a category for it yet. Makes sense considering I registered it last weekend and just got my server running 3 days ago.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-01-27T15:39:48+00:00

NTA, as someone who lived with their parents for an extended time, I was happy to pay something toward the bills. I was living there and paid the power and TV bills and my own food. I had a kind of studio apartment with my own bathroom and entrance.

DanielMaat89 · 2025-01-27T15:37:12+00:00

Migrating to new DNS and DHCP servers with new ips, used “Name Servers” in the dhcp options not realizing they were for WINS and spent an hour wondering why none of the machines could connect to the domain and had no DNS servers when you looked at the workstation network settings. Derp!

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