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A fun project that results in a unique and stylish router is repurposing a Mac Pro Trashcan. They can be picked up for a few hundred dollars, offer dual 1GbE In
by Ir0nMan 6mo ago
A fun project that results in a unique and stylish router is repurposing a Mac Pro Trashcan. They can be picked up for a few hundred dollars, offer dual 1GbE Intel NICs that work natively on Linux, and have plenty of CPU and RAM overhead. Throw OPNsense on there and you’re off to the races.
- whalesalad 6mo agoPerformance per watt is not ideal on the trash can. But totally doable.
- wffurr 6mo agoThe idle power usage on those is atrocious compared to say an Intel N100 or an Arm system.