| 17 Oct 2025 |
 KDK12 | Ok thank you | 09:46:19 |
 Nigel | I've just switched on a zyxel nwa50ax pro and find it is trying to call home to 'nebula' if it found an internet connection. Seems outrageous to me. I'm all in with Nix home servers and laptops. Before I setup, may I ask here how best to avoid this snooping? I guess even the zyxel router will try too. | 11:37:55 |
 hexa (clat on linux when) | don't connect to internet, flash openwrt instead 😄 | 11:39:02 |
 antifuchs | (That sounds like an anti-endorsement of openwrt, lol) | 12:04:55 |
 K900 | Just flash nixos instead :P | 12:05:40 |
| Nigel | 128mb ram :( | 12:06:27 |
| * K900 stares at mt7996 source | 12:06:48 |
 ElvishJerricco | ... flash a nixos initrd with networkd in it? :P | 12:06:50 |
| ElvishJerricco | oh wait you said ram, I thought you said storage | 12:07:10 |
| ElvishJerricco | honestly I bet a minimal nixos could boot in 128M of ram | 12:07:20 |
| ElvishJerricco | you'd just have to build it externally | 12:07:27 |
| K900 | Oof | 12:07:57 |
| K900 | It's a 7981 with 128MB of RAM? | 12:08:02 |
| K900 | OK no | 12:08:13 |
| K900 | It's 512MB of RAM | 12:08:16 |
| K900 | And 256MB of storage | 12:08:19 |
| K900 | According to openwrt wiki | 12:08:23 |
| K900 | That's more reasonable for a 7981 | 12:08:27 |
| K900 | https://openwrt.org/toh/zyxel/nwa50ax_pro | 12:08:39 |
| ElvishJerricco | yea 512M is plenty to boot. 256M is too little storage though, so that would have to just be kernel / initrd, either with external storage or just running the whole router in initrd | 12:09:23 |
| K900 | God I really need to not buy another bpi-r4 | 12:10:07 |
| K900 | But it is very tempting | 12:10:15 |
| ElvishJerricco | what for? Just to mess with stuff without killing your network? | 12:10:41 |
| K900 | Yes | 12:10:45 |
| Nigel | Openwrt for that device then, if I am bothered by the snooping | 12:13:17 |
| K900 | Well it does have openwrt | 12:13:29 |
| K900 | And MT798x stuff is well supported | 12:13:36 |
| K900 | So it is a good option | 12:13:41 |
| ElvishJerricco | (openwrt is the correct choice) I would be too tempted to do a router in initrd :P | 12:13:49 |
| Nigel | I confused that with the zyxel gs1900 10hp switch, which will snoop as well but has an openwrt image too if I understand correctly | 12:18:03 |
