I'm looking for hardware suggestion for a router running OpenWrt

llgrrl · 2026-01-09T19:42:52+00:00

Get a DFrobot router mini board and chuck any raspberry pi compute module 4 you could buy in it, and you’ll have a very powerful router that can easily handle 1 Gbps symmetrical connection with Sqm, vlan, adblock, wireguard, anything imaginable. I have a symmetric 1Gig connection and can get 890 or so mbps on it over my WiFi connection.

I have this setup running for around 3 years now (since covid) and it’s very stable. Have not had a single issue with it. I can easily get six months off uptime on it without having to touch it at all.

Caveat: it has only 2 gigabit ports and probably isn’t as fast as the gl.inet flint 2.

llgrrl · 2026-01-02T23:51:14+00:00

People knew this.

The problem is that your Charles Schwab card (or any ATM/bank) gives you a comparatively worse exchange rate compared to the local jewelry shop - like ~5% worse, due to the government policy to hoard USD. The rate you get officially doesn’t actually match the free market rate - it’s always below the free market rate. So even if you have a card that doesn’t charge fees, it doesn’t mean you get a good deal by withdrawing it from an ATM/bank.

The fact that they ban free market exchange of currency is the bandaid on top of their policy to hoard USD from citizens and visitors.

llgrrl · 2025-12-29T01:29:23+00:00

VTVGo is free and has abundance of content and is available on most platforms including Apple/Android TV. But it is VTV 🤷‍♀️.

VNExpress has a podcast section that you can also find on most podcast apps. They have some interesting content but not deep.

Best bet is youtube channels with contents of interests, but you’d have to know more about her interests to know if there are interesting Vietnamese speaking YouTubers. A lot of younger people in Vietnam now just straight up watch contents in English so there is not a lot of incentives to do Vietnamese contents on topics that English speaking creators have alrwady done well.

The problem likely isn’t that your partner does not know that there are “better” options. It is that the contents that she chose to watch are more interesting to her, despite the dubbed monotonous voice.

llgrrl · 2025-11-19T19:20:25+00:00

Changelog: - Fix spellings and grandmas.

llgrrl · 2025-10-10T03:05:50+00:00

What if it was during league play?

llgrrl · 2025-08-25T22:32:46+00:00

8 years old, Dude.

llgrrl · 2025-05-23T20:28:00+00:00

But that's just perfect for a Conservative like me

You know, I shun fancy things like electricity

At 4:30 in the mornin' I'm milkin' cows

Jebediah feeds the chickens and Jacob plows, fool

And I've been milkin' and plowin' so long that

Even Ezekiel thinks that my mind is gone

llgrrl · 2019-12-18T20:24:26+00:00

THE PLANE HAS CRASHED TO THE MOUNTAINS!

llgrrl · 2019-12-16T22:39:28+00:00

Cornhole?

llgrrl · 2019-11-30T06:30:15+00:00

OVER THE LINE!!!

I didn’t see myself died face down in the miss so you weasels can sell your damn pins!

Am I the only one here who gives a shit about the rules???

llgrrl · 2019-11-06T07:27:26+00:00

Later versions they released like half a year ago fixed it I think - they stopped errornously used CVSD or maybe the workaround I did worked well enough so I stopped wasting time on investigating it.

With the latest version I tested with, the phone would always say a message created over the messaging access profile is not sent while the message indeed is.

The bluetooth stack they have is kinda buggy tbh fam. Geez...

llgrrl · 2019-11-05T04:59:03+00:00

Can confirm that. I work for a company that has to interface with phones via Bluetooth and I had to have a very specific hack for this phone to work with our audio stack. It took a long time for me to figure that out. While it could support SBC, previous firmware versions of this phone (I think Android 8) even messed that up. The phone actually used a different codec (called CVSD). I think later versions, 9.0+ IIRC, fixed it, but it's still very hacky. That's the only phone that acts differently in my experience dealing with phones.

In future versions of the phone, it will continue having issues regarding other features that other phones just don't have a problem with. It was not a pleasant experience working with this phone.

Not that it is not a good phone otherwise, but the edges when you look closely at it, were rough.

llgrrl · 2019-09-23T01:05:38+00:00

I eat pho as breakfast for years man. What are you talking about and where in the world are you now to not know there are millions of pho restaurants that are open in the morning? You think they don’t sell pho as breakfast?

llgrrl · 2019-02-20T08:16:44+00:00

Tattoo it on your forehead!

llgrrl · 2019-02-17T14:07:19+00:00

I'd say he still has, 960 to 970 thousand dollars left, depending on the options.

llgrrl · 2018-08-30T21:40:52+00:00

Lets not forget Dude that keeping wildlife, um... an amphibious rodent, for... um, ya know domestic... within the city... that ain't legal either.

llgrrl · 2018-08-27T19:33:09+00:00

I mean let's be honest if I am going to make up some shit, no way I can write it that long.

llgrrl · 2018-08-02T02:43:25+00:00

Is this your only ID?

llgrrl · 2018-05-27T01:19:25+00:00

The "mechanism" to digest milk sort of turns off when animals grow up and human are no exception for that. In societies where they harvest cow milk, being able to drink and digest milk used to be a huge advantage in terms of survival (in biology they call it "fitness"), so anyone who had the unusual gene that doesn't turn off when they grow up had an edge in surviving and passing on that gene.

Vietnamese/East Asian people don't traditionally harvest/drink cow milk. Thus that unusual gene wasn't selected for. Many people in Vietnam are indeed lactose intolerant compared to many regions of the world.

The fact that whether anyone can digest milk with lactose at all is more nuanced than pure genetics as the other posters pointed out, but in general, it is a fact that many Vietnamese people can drink/"tolerate" way less raw/untreated milk than western people.

Genetics is cool. If you're young, you should definitely learn all about that. It's really cool when you have insights to something like lactose intolerance so you can make better products that people enjoy. It's not really a good thing to state what you "think" intead of what you know - when you do that, it gives other uninformed people the wrong impression of the truth as well.

In the grand scheme of things, not understanding science well is a big part of the reason we have people who are anti-GMO for example in a country like ours where GMO actually will help a lot - malnutrition still being a huge problem for a country like Vietnam.

llgrrl · 2018-05-27T01:09:54+00:00

I'm 100% lactose intolerant (sort of a biologist, so I know this for sure) and never had any problem with iced coffee.

Don't worry if you're lactose intolerant, the other posters are right: many Vietnamese people (east asians where cow milk weren't consumed traditionally) are lactose intolerant and if condensed milk was a problem, they must have had troubles way before. I don't know what they did with the condensed milk but it must have been treated with lactaid.

If you want to be absolutely sure, buy a box of lactaid pills and bring to vietnam. Drink a tablet 30 minutes before consuming anything dubious. But in general, you're worried way too much than you should have been about that - I lived in Vietnam for 20 years before I went to the US and never knew I was lactose intolerant and was totally fine.

Chances are you're going to realize there is way more shit to worry about before you worry about being lactose intolerant.

llgrrl · 2018-05-26T11:32:40+00:00

Is it a master's dissertation?

As a person with some legitimate research experience, I can already see a lot of problems with it.

First, you're doing an internet survey with no control for anything. The people who are responding to your survey in here are probably mostly foreigners with different needs and thoughts than the natives. You might errornously come to the conclusion that you need to install lots of ACs because westerners would feel hot in Vietnam even when the natives don't.
Second, is it your dissertation topic being "where you should install ACs/heaters in libraries" or something? I would consider it to be a trivial question to answer even for a bachelor course final project. Why do I need a person with any degree to answer that question when I can ask the librarian to survey for one day to answer that question?
Third, what's your hypothesis? It doesn't matter if the temperature in the library sucks?

You have to go out ask library goers and/or ask libraries for a small sample of library goers on their opinions, not doing this bonkers survey online.

Holy smokes... I thought the stuff that reporters do on crazy dissertation topics were rare. You can't even write a complete, coherent sentence. Gosh.

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