Just because tying them up doesn’t hurt or stop the overall operation, you still wasted that one guys time and probably hurt his metrics 🤷‍♂️

Still not worth it to me

Thanks! Glad I made a good choice.

Now that you mention it, one of my favorite YouTubers, Usagi Electric, recently switched to Linux, and had to find a new video editor. I believe he’s using davinci as well.

But I agree, they’re all a little terrible. But they’re doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Kdenlive did crash in me once, and I hadn’t saved in a long time. But I gave it a pass because of the aforementioned heavy lifting, and also it let me “recover” my project, and dropped me back exactly where I was, I lost maybe one most-recent action. You love to see it.

I’ve used random Linux based video editors in the past, like 15-17 years ago. They were… Not great.

Later, I did a handful of projects with premier pro CS6, really liked it.

It’s been almost a decade since I’ve done any video editing, until literally a few hours ago when I needed to make a simple wedding video for my friend. Cut together a couple camera angles, some PiP, do some color correction, a couple fades and one linear swipe transition.

I’m running Bluefin, so I went the path of least resistance, and just checked the flatpack catalog for the highest rated and most downloaded video editor.

That was kdenlive. I found it to be fairly user friendly, and powerful enough for my needs. The GUI reminds me of CS6, though it’s been awhile since I used it, so that may be less true than I’m remembering.

Hardware acceleration for encoding didn’t work on my AMD 7840U, but… I didn’t try very hard. Maybe there’s a workaround, and it may not even be the programs fault.

Take my recommendation with a grain of salt, because again, this isn’t my world, and I did zero research haha. Kind of funny that this post is the first one I stumble across after finishing that project.

Ah yes winmodems, what garbage. That’s dumb. I probably should’ve dug deeper when I got it. Honestly I hate printers. I asked the printer community on Reddit to recommend me a cheap printer that used cheap toner. I gave them my requirements and they even found a Craigslist listing for me. I think I’m only in 20 or 40 bucks, can’t remember, but I guess I can’t complain too hard.

Can you get modern laser printers that work that way?

I recently tried setting up my hp p1102w to print from openwrt using p910nd, but can’t because it’s a “host based” printer, whatever that means.

Even in cups, it needs a special driver to get it to behave. Doesn’t even work out of the box on my Fedora install.

I bought it a couple years ago, second hand, because the toner is cheap, and if I don’t update the firmware, I can keep using aftermarket toner.

It has Wi-Fi, but sometimes it refuses to print from Linux or my phone, just randomly. Always works on Windows though 🤦‍♂️

My plan is to kill the Wi-Fi because I don’t trust it being so out of date anymore, and either plug it into my server or slap a rpi on the back with cups on the network. But it’s proving to be a painful experience.

This is an example of what an Internet service providers network might look like.

They use many different types of specialized computers and devices to connect your house (one of the grey rectangles) to the greater Internet (the yellow rectangle in the middle).

One person is arguing that instead of the Internet service provider owning all of the red green and blue computers… Other people would own them. And maybe the red computer for your neighborhood would physically be inside your neighbor’s house, instead of in a small building or box on the side of the road somewhere nearby.

Functionally, it’s the same Internet, regardless of who owns the red box. Though theoretically, it could be less safe to give random people, potentially bad actors, access to the physical computer that is the red box, because they could do something malicious with it. But the point is, if the technology is working correctly, it doesn’t matter who owns it, everyone’s private home networks (everything downstream of your grey rectangle), are kept separate.

Just like normal Internet, you can’t print on your neighbor’s network printer, just because you both have the same ISP and share the same red computer upstream somewhere. The red computer won’t let it happen.

Does that make sense?

Now, the concern of the other guy, it seems, comes from not understanding this. Not understanding that the red computers are specially configured by the ISP, or whoever owns it, to keep the grey rectangles separate.

What he might be thinking, is something similar to sharing your Wi-Fi password. Or maybe running an Ethernet cable over the fence and plugging your neighbor’s router into your router. Things start to get complicated here, so I’ll gloss over a lot of things, but essentially… Your home router is not configured like the red computers are. So all of your neighbors data would be going through your home network, and you could very likely see what he’s doing, and he could potentially see what you’re doing (provided there’s no double NAT, but even then I’m not sure, maybe).

Basically, if two or more neighbors want to share Internet, but don’t know how to do it safely, then they can expose their private network activity to each other and open each other up to a decent amount of risk.

The solution, is to configure your router in a similar way to the red computers. It’s complicated, but not that difficult in practice. You could Google VLANs to get an idea of what would need to be done. Honestly you’d need more than that, some good firewall rules, and more things that I’m not qualified to comment on. I’m not a networkologist. But it can be done.

The debate/argument stems from a basic misunderstanding of how these systems work. Or perhaps they both understand how they work, but the guy who doesn’t want to do it is just worried about his neighbors being untrustworthy with the hardware being in their house, worried they’ll be nefarious, but he’s just bad at communicating that idea to the other guy.

At any rate, it doesn’t matter who owns the red computers or the green or blue, if they’re configured correctly, you’re safe. Unless you don’t trust whoever owns the computers 🤷‍♂️

Hopefully that makes sense! Let me know if you have any questions!

I’ll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don’t point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they’ll take you out

Thanks for the update!

I’m not a professional, just some ideas here:

Yes cat6 is copper, but it’s low voltage, so according to a quick Google, you can put it 6 inches under and be ok, depending on what’s on the ground above it.

Fiber sounds good, but more delicate if anything is driving over it, might want it deeper anyway. For what it’s worth they just installed it at my house and only trenched it 2 or 3 inches, so 🤷‍♂️

You mention bonding the buildings together, and that might work, but there might be some code violations there, definitely look into it. IIRC if bonding two buildings, you need to, at a minimum, drive a ground rod 8ft down every so many feet. On every 5 or 10 maybe? Don’t quote me, definitely look it up.

But you might not need to do that anyway, did you try grounding just one side, or the other side? Just making sure the shielding on one side or the other is bonded well to the ground in that one building, and not the other. RF can do some weird stuff. And a wire that long is basically a big antenna, and if not grounded, can be inducing all kinds of voltages and noise where it shouldn’t be.

The RF link did work great, but it’s hard to beat a solid chunk of wire. That REALLY should be working for you, sorry to hear it’s not.

Anyway sorry to butt in with my opinions, please do keep us posted! I’m quite curious now haha

Did you ever figure this out? I’m curious. Nobody mentioned the caulk, yes you cleaned it, but if it was silicone then it likely cures with acetic acid, which can corrode the conductors on both sides of the plug.

The amount of people absolutely POUNDING several event drinks a day is astounding.

I have a heart condition and couldn’t drink them if I wanted to, without dying, so they don’t believe when I say it’s bad for them.