I have many nerdy friends who have been Linux users for ages. But most of them don’t know such a thing as Openwrt exists or have never bothered to give it a try. It’s a very fun piece of software to play with and can be extremely useful for routing traffic. Wondering why it isn’t more popular/widely used.

  • mFat
    OPEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    You can run a VPN like wire guard, ad blockers such as Adguard Home or pihole or even media servers on your openwrt router.

    • @onlinepersonaEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      I see. Well, I have a homeserver for that, which runs all my services, so an openwrt router wouldn’t be an upgrade.

      But probably without a homeserver, an openwrt router would make sense and use less energy.

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