| 17 Oct 2025 |
 hexa | 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 |
| K900 | Switches generally tend not to phone home tbh | 12:27:41 |
| K900 | Pretty hard to do at L2 :P | 12:27:44 |
