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  • You need VLANs if you want separate networks on the SAME router. But if you have separate routers, then you don’t need VLANs.

    You will need two wireless access points. If the router you mentioned has two wireless access points built in, then just set one to connect to the shared network, and the other will act as an AP for your private network. Then the router can be configured to send WAN traffic out of the shared network AP.

    If you use a router that only has a single AP built in, then you will need to purchase and additional AP to plug into one of your router’s LAN ports so that it has two total.

    Some routers might have the ability to create multiple wireless networks on one router, but be sure the hardware can handle the load. I know my ubiquity UDR can create up to 5 wireless networks on that single device before you run into performance issues.


  • Honestly, if you’re using your own router, you won’t need to worry about VLANs as long as your router separates your private network from the shared one.

    For example, if the shared network is 192.168.0.0/24, you can make your private network 192.168.5.0/24 and have your router’s firewall block incoming traffic from 192.168.0.0/24. Only allow WAN traffic out, and allow return traffic.

    Then have your router or connected server act as the authoritative DNS and DHCP servers for the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.

    One wireless AP will be used in client mode to connect to the 192.168.0.0/24 shared network. The other wireless AP will be used as an access point for other devices to connect to the 192.168.5.0/24 private network.



  • Honestly, I couldn’t have put it into better words than that. That perfectly defined that transition that we need to head into. We have to start now We need to work together to make this happen. We need to see this capitalist society go away and we need to move into something more sustainable. If we are going to go into a massive economic disruption, then we need to make it worthwhile. We need to build within the shellof the old with what we already have. All of that sounds painful, but if we want to move into a world where we won’t kill the planet, we must do it. The sooner the better.



  • Thats the thing. Compute ENABLES all of that industry. Compute ENABLES all that residential energy usage. Compute ENABLES commercial businesses to operate.

    Those sources are referring to direct energy usage, but isn’t accounting for indirect production enabled by that technology.

    Im not saying there aren’t other fights to battle. All im saying is halt this nonsense until we can figure out how to clean planet Earth of all the crap we have already produced. Piling on isn’t helping at all. Leave those rare earth metals in the ground and figure out how to recycle them ones we have already mined. Figure out how to pull from landfills all that forgotten ewaste.

    Its going to take time and effort. Its not going to be profitable. Its not going to fast.

    Personally, I believe every company who produces a product must also provide a way to reuse, recycle, or return each and every product they sell. Phone manufacturers, solar panel fabricators, and wind turbine manufacturers should be the ones leading the charge on this. It shouldn’t be up to any third party service, government, or country to have that burden.


  • I am not going to lie, i just don’t have the energy to put together all the research that has been done on the energy consumption of AI neural networks for you. They are consuming more energy than entire States in the USA use. Then theres cryptocurrency. Then there is the fact that we have global storefronts, distributers, resellers, supermarkets, and food production that is designed around creating hyper capitalist worlds of consumerism that only exists because it is so god damn easy to add to cart and have one of everything.

    You will never need one of everything. We don’t need to produce just to produce. We aren’t sharing. We are hoarding. We are stashing. Products are assembled and put on store shelves at such an unsustainable rate that there isn’t enough time or energy to figure out how to properly reuse or recycle them or their byproducts. The lowest quality, most pollutive products pile up. They pile up in landfills, along roads, and in oceans. Hell, there are microplastics in the most remote regions planet earth. Its filthy and disgusting. You cant even find clean water in the wild anymore.

    All because we have a way to tap 3 buttons and get delivered something new to consume.

    Hyper fucking capitalism only becomes more hyper thanks to rare earth metals (which also are just tossed in the trash once their use is up).




  • Yes. We obviously aren’t responsible enough to handle these devices as it is now. We are eroding our planet of its life by causing drastic changes to our climate, caused by burning up massive amounts of fossil fuels to power our “AI”. This is gross and detestable, and we should reverse course immediately until we can find better alternatives to handle semiconductor manufacturing processes, and find better ways to power these devices. Not stopping now will only add more Co2 emissions to our planet’s atmosphere, which will increase global temperatures.