I’m not sure how card payments work in the US, but here the terminals have offline-mode where the purchases are just stored locally until it comes online again.

If there’s a total blackout, having cash maybe be better (but absolutely no guarantee they’re usable at the grocery store)…but there’s a whole lot of other much more pressing issues in that case.

Just use your browser and Proton Free tier VPN and you’re set.

What would this “adult” app be used for? Porn? Hookups? Finding No-kids-allowed restaurants?

I’ve been using a combination of Opentracks for GPS/map and gadgetbridge+PAIesque with an amazfit neo and Decathlon HRM band for metrics and analysis for about a week now, and it’s honestly just inferior in every single way compared to my Coros Pace 2.

So there are solutions, but they all kind of suck a little and you have to be willing to accept that.

Curious, how do you plan to download from your newsgroups if you are not exposed to the internet? This is no different that the internet access e.g. qbit needs.

Not really, most SFF PCs top out below 70W at absolute maximum, 100W-400W at idle is improbable.

For reference, mine uses 7W on average running my home automation and some other things, when it’s actually idling it’s well below that.

That would make it way too high at anywhere from 100W to 400W depending on where in the world they are.

Have you tried doing a DNS lookup from the router (pinging a host by name, say) when you were having the problems?

Yes this works when I’m having issues. I guess I’ll try looking in to my routers DNS next time i have issues. For now it’s working again (I still haven’t changed anything)

Just default for my gl.inet, haven’t changed anythingon that part.

I mean, i have narrowed it down to some kind of DNS issue, I just don’t know what. Right now everything is working again (I haven’t changed anything), so I’ll have to keep looking next time it stops working. It’s just weird it works for days/weeks at a time, and then suddenly breaks for a few hours until it “magically” fixes it self again without me doing anything.

Is the laptop Linux?

It is yes, Mint

Restart doesn’t fix it unfortunately.

I am using my routers DNS, and it’s reachable from my laptop.

Yes I use the same destination fro testing on my laptop and the router.

I think I’ve narrowed it down to a DNS issue, I just don’t know exactly what. I can ping outwards from my laptop when using IPs but not names. But my laptop can reach my DNS.

From my laptop I can ping outwards using IP, but not names (e.g. openwrt.org), but I can reach my DNS from my laptop

When you confirm that the router can reach the Internet during this period of outage, how are you doing that?

it’s a gl.inet brume2 running openwrt, I SSH into it and can ping outwards to anything and my speed test from the CLI tells me i have 900Mbit available

Internet access from all devices in my house simply stops working entirely for a few hours, sometimes there’s weeks between this happening, sometimes only a few days. But when this happens, I can still reach internet from my router without issue.

My old Pi4 with SSD averaged around 7W, so only 1W lower than my mini PC, but performance and usability of my mini PC is far greater (and it comes with 1tb NVME and 16GB ram). I generally advice against using most SBCs these days unless you specifically need the pin I/O for something.

The mini PCs draw up to 30W, mine runs at an 8W average

Do you think that tweeking the preconfigured networks would cause conflicts in the long run?

No, none at all. The gl.inet GUI interacts with the underlying system in the exact same way AFAIK, the most common things are just presented with a better/simplified GUI to provide a better UX for non-powerusers.

Gl.inet routers still have the regular full Luci interface if you find their own UI too restrictive. Under settings -> advanced it opens the regular openwrt Luci