I’m beautiful and tough like a diamond…or beef jerky in a ball gown.
I bought this one last month when it was on sale for $39: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRK3CYY3
Haven’t deployed it yet, but it’s fully supported by OpenWRT. I would only be using it as an access point, though. My router is a USFF Optiplex with an extra NIC and runs OpenWRT.
I never had one but they had them at school. Thought they were the coolest thing ever and also assumed digital because CDs were starting to become popular.
“What if it won’t turn off?”
“What if it won’t turn back on?”
“What if the valve just snaps off and sprays everywhere?”
Yep, I understand completely.
And the auto-submitting TOTP entry form where you’re apparently not allowed to make a typo. And obscuring the TOTP number like it’s a password or state secret.
I know exactly what episode you’re talking about, and yes! That’s both my fear and my experience.
Well, I clearly need a foreman then lol. That’s the part where my projects usually fall apart or struggle.
Touch one thing, you find everything else attached to it is rotted or held together with caulk and a dream.
Oh, god, literally that.
I can do the repairs pretty confidently, but I suck at the planning and get completely overwhelmed going to Lowes/Home Depot and dread the multiple trips I always have to make because I forgot something, find something else that needs replaced, or bought the wrong size/style.
Setting a DIY deadline is a really good suggestion, at least as far as “might actually work for me” goes. Thanks!
I used to buy their stuff and use tuya-convert to flash Tasmota onto them. But they kept updating the firmware to lock that out, and I ended up returning a batch of 15 smart plugs because none of them would flash. They were too much of a PITA to try to crack open and flash the ESP8266 manually so I returned the whole batch as defective, left a scathing review, and blackballed the whole brand.
That’s what I’ve done for years. Makes managing things much easier, and I run multiple APs (all with the same SSID/PSK) and you can just roam to the best one. One upstairs, one downstairs, one in the weird dead zone in my office, and one on the back patio (it’s not hardwired and uses the mesh connection for uplink).
These are all old Aruba APs running OpenWRT but that’s the plan for this Cudy Model. I may pick up a few more and just replace all of my trusty but very old Arubas.