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I do love OpenWrt but the upgrade experience is still a pain because user-installed packages need to be reinstalled manually. More so if your WAN connection relies on these packages (USB modems), then you have to either pre-download them or build a custom image.


There is a VERY elegant solution to this problem, called "attended sysupgrade", that is not as widely known as it should be.

It's probably best explained in a video on what may be the best youtube channel on OpenWrt-related things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFTPA6GkJjg

Or, if you prefer textual information: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy... (OpenWrt's infra is kinda slow today for me, must be many people checking out the new release :))


Wow, I've been running OpenWRT for years and never heard of this, thanks. Although I suppose it does nothing to resolve config upgrade issues, right?


It does exactly as much as using `sysupgrade` with any other suitable image will or would do :) So yes, limitations apply - but for most users with a bunch of custom installed packages, this is enough of a game changer regardless.


> I do love OpenWrt but the upgrade experience is still a pain because user-installed packages need to be reinstalled manually.

Just use image-builder. Or better, create a script which uses image-builder for you.

For me, upgrading to newer releases for my 7 OpenWRT devices, is mostly just updating a version number and waiting for the build to complete (a few minutes at tops).

It's not really hard.

I may have gone in a bit over-the-top, with makefile and dependencies at all[1], but at the core of things, it's not really hard.

[1] https://github.com/josteink/openwrt-build/


You could also make the OpenWRT router connect trough your phone’s hotspot feature temporarily, while you set up your primary connection. Three clicks in the GUI is all that’s needed to join a wireless network for WAN connectivity.


You could combine it with Snapcast to achieve that

HM from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31502845


So what would be the difference? Through the lab-leak discussion we have identified labs as a _potential_ threat that need tighter security measures. Even if this virus did not originate in a lab we are just waiting for one that actually does.


As far as media and general public are concerned, maybe. Everyone that watched one of the pandemic films of the 90s, or spend more then 5 minutes thinking about this stuff, figured that out long ago.


You might want to lake a look at M-DISC for backups on optical media: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC


Well afaik Android Auto won't work at all without gapps (Play services)


Correct. Android Auto – itself - requires Play Services. Regardless, support for Android Auto gets OSM a brand new market. If they support CarPlay (and MirrorLink, if that’s still being put into cars), better still.


Public traffic space is limited (and in major cities exhausted) supply. Being "pro something else" is automatically anti-something. If do not make the latter part explicit it will just hurt the weakest group (typically reducing space for pedestrians).


Because you need a way for the pub to authenticate that this is indeed your qr code (matching your id)


The EU standard was developed for the purposes of avoiding additional quarantine or testing during cross-border travel, not going to pubs within one’s own country. For domestic use of proof of COVID vaccination, some countries developed their own internal standards alongside the EU standard.


Not currently visiting pubs, I still wait until they stop validating their guests.


Simple solution: just use the correct title abbreviation: Dr.h.c.

Edit: Also technically he would not be called Dr.h.c x12 but "Dr.h.c. mult.".

Greetings from a country obsessed with titles...


Austria?


I have played around with netdata just yesterday on my home server. Great tool, but the defaults are overkill for my needs. After spending an hour trying to simplify (=disable most of the "collectors") using the documentation, I finally gave up.

Settled on neofetch [1] instead: pure bash, wrote my own custom inputs including color coding for incident reporting in less time than it took me to strip down netdata. Highly recommended if you want to spend your time on other things than (setting up) server monitoring.

[1] https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch


Thanks for the link: neofetch seems a good tool when you just want to manually see what is going on. Netdata is also designed to alert, forward data to other locations, monitor at 1 second granularity, and to store historical data efficiently if you want to see what went on in the recent past.



Also 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13975965

(The one from 3 months ago didn't get significant attention so I don't think we'll mark it a dupe - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)


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