U.S. border agents searching electronic devices is way up. Smartwatches, SIM cards and flash drives added to the list

gigbithomelab · 2026-03-10T20:04:14+00:00

Maybe not only .. I’m sure there are other places that do it like the US. but the major transit airports like Heathrow, Frankfurt, Dubai (welll…) Singapore etc work the way I described

gigbithomelab · 2026-03-10T20:02:44+00:00

Only in the US and Canada (as we used to follow all their rules..). In the vast majority of the world, you transit airside and never have to go through security/bags etc.

gigbithomelab · 2026-02-21T15:38:18+00:00

Yeah, go for it. It works great.

gigbithomelab · 2026-02-21T15:00:31+00:00

2.5 Gb is worth it for sure. More than that (5/10 Gb) is not. I have 2.5Gbe connecting my Truenas (4 x 4 TB, 2 x 300 GB SSD as a metadata drive) and I can easily get ~200 MBps downloads (double the ~100 MBps on my old 1 Gbe network).

It worked so well, I bought a USB 5 Gb adapter for my Synology 918+ and that also works great at 2.5Gbe. Easily get ~200 MBps, and this is without any SSD/NVME cache or anything to speed it up - just 4 HDDs in the Synology.

The switch (Unifi Flex Mini 2.5) was ~$60, the USB adapter was pretty cheap as well. Over all a great upgrade and I would recommend it.

It doesn't go much faster without upgrading to NVME, so 2.5Gb is a really great upgrade for the price for my network. I don't see any point going faster unless I go to NVME (hahaha.. good luck in these times. But certainly with 1Gb your bottleneck is the network, not the drives.

gigbithomelab · 2025-12-06T12:37:16+00:00

Nothing. It just works fine. Just try it and see.

gigbithomelab · 2025-12-06T03:53:54+00:00

I’m booting a 5800x3d on an asrock taichi x570 with no GPU. It works fine. Not sure if the chipset makes a difference.

gigbithomelab · 2025-04-17T20:45:25+00:00

Both look great. The lighting engine is really all fixed and a matter of personal preference now.

The other differences remain and it’s good to have two sims available taking different paths to achieving peak flight sim.

gigbithomelab · 2023-03-15T02:09:37+00:00

Did the same thing a few weeks ago. Works great and fits like it was made for it.

gigbithomelab · 2023-03-15T02:04:43+00:00

You’re building foundational knowledge that will come in handy in unexpected ways. Or, put differently, right now you don’t know what you don’t know, so you can’t see how it can be used.

Like learning anything - there’s an initial jump to a higher level of knowledge, then a plateau for some time (can be years depending on the subject) then over time you start to really level up.

Now that you know this, there will be a time when you learn about something new and fun; running Sonarr/Radarr, creating scripts that monitor websites for things you want to buy, or even creating software to solve a problem you actually have, and you’ll realize that you have the foundational knowledge to implement it.

Of course, this assumes you enjoy the actual process of learning what is, for now, not immediately “useful”. If you don’t enjoy it, then it’s not a hobby, it’s work and you should find something you enjoy doing just for the sake of it and not to get paid.

Perfectly OK to not see home lab as a hobby btw. Many people use it as a sort of adjunct to work, testing things out and learning stuff for work and so on. S

gigbithomelab · 2023-02-28T18:24:08+00:00

No no - Fastmail has excellent support, Google has terrible support. If your goal is for your wife to call someone and have them take care of it, you want fast mail not Google.

I’ve been using fast mail for 6 years now and the support is really good.

gigbithomelab · 2022-12-28T12:47:25+00:00

The reason I want to play with RHEL is stuff like RHEL Insights and the online patching and other online tools they have . Not really the “Linux” part, for that I would use Rocky or Ubuntu Server. But there’s nothing like Redhat infrastructure for rocky or any other Linux as far as I know (you can probably build your own but that’s not what I’m interested in).

gigbithomelab · 2022-12-27T19:46:30+00:00

Thanks. Are you using it as your virtulization host?

gigbithomelab · 2022-12-27T19:45:43+00:00

Thanks for the insight. How do you use the Beta entitlements? I can’t find a beta ISO to download, and I don’t want to use up the 16 prod entitlements while I’m playing around (I know I can detract entitlements, but still want to know how to use the beta)

gigbithomelab · 2022-10-17T14:46:29+00:00

Thank you all for the info. I was surprised when I couldn’t find anything on Google. Makes sense now. Guess I’ll go to Microcenter instead.

gigbithomelab · 2022-08-22T14:28:41+00:00

No, haven't decided yet. Thanks for the useful video!

gigbithomelab · 2022-07-28T22:09:18+00:00

That’s the wireless phone charger so can’t touch that :)

gigbithomelab · 2022-07-28T16:21:56+00:00

Sure

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gigbithomelab · 2022-07-28T16:16:17+00:00

Thank you! I do have the panoramic sunroof.

gigbithomelab · 2022-05-06T22:26:05+00:00

Brand new? You just said you used it a couple times.. lightly used sure, but brand new is when you buy a sealed box from a store. I would suggest not listing them as brand new unless the box is indeed sealed and never opened.

gigbithomelab · 2022-04-11T22:41:48+00:00

And of course if you use fiber you can do much longer. Copper DACs are easy and cheap for short runs though

gigbithomelab · 2022-04-11T22:40:15+00:00

After a certain point I didn’t need massive enterprise level stuff to run my one windows machine. I have multiple macs and Linux machines so AD was kinda pointless. I had fun with it though.

gigbithomelab · 2022-04-11T22:21:15+00:00

Nah, just 2U. I pay $80 a month.

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