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Do you run services on your home router, your cellphone, and your microwave just because they have CPUs?

• fragmede 4mo ago
  My microwave, unfortunately, is closed source. However my home router runs a web server, and my cellphone runs a service called Airdrop, when I turn it on.
• ericd 4mo ago
  Your home router is a pretty good place to run some services… Highly recommend running VPN so you can access your home network from anywhere.
  • inigyou 4mo ago
    Notably, that is routing.
    • ericd 3mo ago
      Heh well and encryption/decryption.
• throw2ih020 4mo ago
  Plenty of people run ad-blocking DNS on their router, or mesh VPN software. Handy for devices where you can't install an ad blocker directly, and for working around CGNAT issues due to IPv4 exhaustion. If my microwave had programmable firmware I'd absolutely reprogram it, get rid of the annoying clock and make my own quick buttons for my most common meals...