18:19 <ottidmes> After going over all my options, I plan to buy this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kettop-Mi7100L6-Firewall-Support-Barebone/dp/B07L5QMW83/ anyone see any problems with it?

18:27 <cransom> only 1 hdmi?! no gaming on that one.

18:31 <cransom> other than also needing to pick up ram, i don't see any obvious deficiencies.

18:35 <ottidmes> Haha, yeah, it is actually powerful enough to be used as a desktop :P well at least I know it will run NixOS

18:35 <ottidmes> Thanks for checking, and yeah, I chose the barebone cause it is much cheaper to buy the same parts myself and plug them in

20:58 <ottidmes> I bought the i3 wifi 6 port barebone and bought a SSD and RAM for it, now I just have to wait and hope I get it (that the in stock means here in Europe and not in China)

21:00 <ottidmes> I plan to already create my config beforehand. Any suggestions what software I should be using? Any good resources I should know about? (other than googling for nixos router :P)

21:00 <cransom> i look forward to hearing how that works in case i ever want to replace my older i5 intel nuc

21:03 <ottidmes> It should be here between one and two weeks if all goes well

21:16 <ottidmes> dnsmasq or dhcpd4 for DHCP, what do others use?

21:22 <ottidmes> this config is very useful to learn things from to setup my router: https://github.com/disassembler/network/blob/master/portal/default.nix

21:23 <cransom> i've used dnsmasq for ages. others enjoy dhcpcd+... kresd is it?

21:32 <ottidmes> I have config for both, I guess I will try dnsmasq first, cause I will use it anyway for DNS. Last time I could not use it due to a limitation on having samba on that machine. I stopped using that DHCP/DNS server though, cause it conflicted too much with my ISP router + disabling DHCP on the ISP router would be problematic whenever that machine went down. Now with a dedicated device

21:32 <ottidmes> that's no longer an issue