I feel this in my bones. I was an English major in college. Now I’m in my late 40s and want to create my ow server so that I can OWN the things I used to own: baby pictures and family photos, movies that I bought, music that I bought. I want to send letters to friends without Amazon, JC Penny and Google knowing what I put in my letter.

I’m starting on my home networking journey. I have a beeline on the way to build my own router…pfSense, OpenSense, OpenWRT…still chewing on that but I’m going to do it.

Fuck it. My dad used to work on his car, I think this is my generation’s equivalent.

Right on. Thank you!

Why not? Do you might giving a quick note about why not tp-link? I am doing the research to build my own modem (on the way to self-hosted - which is a LOOONG way away) but was looking at tp link network card as part of the build.