a little bit about everything.
what I learn, where I struggle, and the lessons that stick.
24.03.2026
I bought a Meraki MX64 for the same reason many people do: it was cheap, overbuilt, and looked like a piece of serious network gear that deserved a second life. What I did not buy was a clean, modern, well-documented OpenWrt experience. This post is about taking a used MX64, getting OpenWrt onto it,...
20.03.2026
I spent way too much time making a Netgear Stora boot a usable Linux system in 2026. It now works. That is not the same as saying it was worth it. This post is for the next poor soul who finds one of these things, thinks “nice, old NAS, maybe I can reuse it”, and then accidentally loses several even...