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I just like wardriving, honestly. I like to find radios and see who's doing what. I like other radios too, I have a GMRS license and Technician license. I did a small stint 25 years ago in a mountain community working with directional wifi, we were using 802.11 and pushing it through line of sight antennas, allegedly at a higher power than 802.11 is supposed to be used. Allegedly. Before I got my mast up I was actually using two 56K modems bonded together using a Sun SPARC lunchbox. Having broadband in that situation at that time was magical.
So yeah, a whole big bunch of "because I can" and I don't like the current surveillance state so I do what I can to push back.
I've always been a software guy, but man does building and doing something more physical sound fun. And the community around it all. I plan to get started (at some point) with a homeserver. Networking always felt more high stakes with security and privacy than the application side. Indie web has been calling my name though.
selfhosted on lemmy.world is pretty active. /r/selfhosted is very active.
Well, if it's any consolation all of the holes in a network come from the software.
quick edit: I recently got a Microtik router and it's really cool. I've run various open source router/firewall software for decades and I really like the Microtik. I got one that mounted in my wall network rack because that's fun and it was cheap (old model). It's only got the 1gbit SFP port but that's OK, I'm learning the interface they call WinBox and to be honest? I like it better than the command line.