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Keeping the computer bugs at bay
True. Fully automated out of the box too! Like, no scripting, no broken config files, whathaveyou.
am i crazy or is there no spider in this photo??
No, you are not crazy. Spider web is all there is. - akunohana 2026
Wow, nice rack!!!
Thanks 🍈🍈
I actually did a little more in depth boasting here a month or two ago.
His pest removal services are worth nothing? You’re already bartering.
Shoot! I had completely forgotten about that! Well, I’m convinced. They can stay rent free! :D
By avoiding being a capitalist landlord, you have become a feudalist landlord.
Except this is entirely on the spider’s terms. Land is given but there’s no quota, no tax. The spider may come and go as he pleases and only needs to catch enough pests to feed himself.
Spider notwithstanding, looks like you’ve made an excellent partial faraday cage for your WiFi 😂
Well, the wavelength of 5GHz is
56 cm. The smaller gaps between the bars on the individual “shelves” are 2.6 cm and the bigger gaps are 14 cm. While the smaller gaps could disrupt the waves, the bigger gaps, at which the antennas are pointed, do not.
They’re already working hard ensuring your local network web is free from bugs.
True. I guess I can show it some leniency.
Seems to be a hard working web developer, surely he can pay his rent
No doubt! I should be thankful!
Developing the web and catching bugs, sounds like they’re earning their keep
Threaten it to call immigration if it doesn’t pay up.
That’s… low. Even for me. xD
Considering household insects like cockroaches often look for warm, dry locations to lay their oothecas (egg capsules), and have been known to get fried and damage equipment while doing so - I’d say you actually might have a useful symbiotic pal there, protecting your gear (do I see an MT-6000? Great gateway).
You’re absolutely right! The spider stays!
The rack goes:
The ISP’s ONT (in the hallway, not visible here) —> a TP-link SG105E swtich:- —> a VPN router (RPi4 + OpenWRT + Mullvad) —> an Asus RT-AX58U AX3000 router (in access point mode, 2.4GHz turned off) —> most appliances at home
- —> a plain router (RPi4 + OpenWRT) —> an Asus RT-AX58U AX3000 version 2 router (in access point mode, 2.4GHz turned off) —> Tor bridge (the white device in the picture, a RPi 5) + occasionally backup for internet access
What do you mean? It is already working hard to get rid of all the flies in there.
You sound more like a capitalist CEO. Are you going to take its healthcare away as well?
Similar to “bug” you can establish “spider” as a new computer term for things that infest a running system. Then you do conference talks, write books about it and keep all the earnings you get from doing that. The spider can’t sue you for a share of that if it doesn’t also pay you rent.
A spider is something you release into your system to catch bugs.
For a small fee of 1000$/h I will tell your company how.Yeah I’m with the other commenter on this one. Spiders are deployed against bugs. I will leave her alone to dwell.
But seriously though… WHERE IS SHE?! xD
She’s just trying to crawl the web!
I’m afraid of what she might scrape while crawling.
You’re seriously considering charging the spider rent after he provides you an excellent web connection without asking you for so much as a dime?! How dare you, sir?! How very dare you!!
impose rent?
but…
it’s already working for you, setting up traps for flies.
bloody capitalists… always short-sightedly, myopically, trying to maximise wealth extraction.
rent? it’s keeping your house pest free… you owe it money
(also obligatory that’s not a spider THIS is a spider from australia)
True… I don’t know how to pay her though. PayPal? Ko-Fi?
ko-fly preferable to ko-squito… they’re both pests but those fees really sting
The problem with the implicit size comparison in the Crocodile Dundee reference is that Australian spider size is inversely proportional to their actual danger.
