In this post I will hopefully detail my entire home network. Some of this has been in separate posts explaining single items, but nowhere do I have all of the network in one post. Here is a full shot of the rack in my house. Its in a centrally located

Hopefully this is not too long! There has been a lot of changes since the last time I posted a full overview like this

  • @[email protected]English
    13•1 year ago

    Question. I have a home network that’s more advanced than your typical house. I started holding back though as I figured when I die my family won’t have a clue about all the stuff I have setup. Do you guys ever think about this? I’d hate to leave behind a nightmare for my family members to remove and replace with a regular ISP provided router.

    • @BendingUnitEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      I’ve thought about that a lot. I don’t know whether to try to type up a manual of how everything works or just leave instructions on how to revert to a more basic setup. Either way I think my family would struggle.

      • @turmacarEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        OTOH I think documentation helps everyone involved, myself included.

        OTOH no amount of documentation will matter if they don’t care. Especially for stuff like this that has all this reasoning behind it, but someone else will do a crappier version for only $X a month and it’ll work ‘fine’.

      • withthebandEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Hahaha true for me too that they would struggle

    • @monotuxEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      I’ve thought about it, and nobody will care about your/my elaborate setup after we are gone. It will just be replaced by a ISP router without regrets.

    • ColeEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      My opinion is that your spouse will have to get rid of any other hobby related stuff. If you’re a fisherman, she’s going to have to find something to do with all the tackle, boat/s, gear.

      I know a guy that was a woodworker who had a shop full of well over $20k worth of tools. Poor guy got cancer and died, and his wife had to try to get rid of all of it. Luckily she had some of his woodworking friends who helped her price and sell the stuff. (I got a pretty nice used planer out of the deal)

    • withthebandEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Also thought about that a lot. The most important is that your people can access your data. My partner and bestie both have LUKS keys on all of my devices.

      Maybe do a test run with them to see if they can actually access it.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Got it, sharing the password to my obscure furry midget porn collection with my people

    • @GiantPossumOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I have Bitwarden set to give my wife access if she requests it and I don’t respond in X days

      Things generally “just work” so she would have access to everything, and she can figure out what she wants to do. All the passwords are there and all of the configs are fairly easy for stuff she cares about anyway