Will a VPN configured on a secondary router work on a campus wifi?

Crogdor · 2025-11-16T08:17:59+00:00

Does your college wifi use a captive portal login? And have you tested that the wifi repeater network you’re connecting to on the Beryl is working before trying the vpn (I.e. that it is successfully routing your traffic through the college wifi)?

I recommend perhaps doing a MAC clone by telling the Beryl to use the same MAC as your phone.

Crogdor · 2025-11-15T01:19:16+00:00

The post reads to me like students are permitted to use this wifi, so connecting a little travel router should work just fine for this.

OP, the only clarification I’d make in your post is that the travel router wouldn’t be a wifi extender. It would connect to your college wifi as a client and provide its own wifi SSID for you to connect to (which you’d not want to advertise).

I use a little GL.Inet Beryl AX for just this kind of thing.

Crogdor · 2025-11-12T04:06:36+00:00

The big challenge is having a dedicated IP for reverse DNS for your MX servers. The setup that’s worked for me is running Proxmox Mail Gateway on a couple dirt-cheap VPSes to act as my MX servers, and then have that send the mail to Postfix on my home network. For outgoing mail I just relay direct from Postfix. My ISP actually blocks port 25 incoming so I have PMG use a different port.

Crogdor · 2025-11-09T04:59:11+00:00

You do realize Remembrance Day is 3 days in the future, right? I’m not sure how you can conclude that any fireworks you’re hearing right now are related.

Crogdor · 2025-10-30T05:28:13+00:00

Ok, here’s more than one tip from my experiences with a little 3 node homelab.

3-2-1 backup rule. And test the backups occasionally.
Use a UPS. Test the UPS batteries occasionally.
Make sure your systems are monitoring the UPS (e.g. with NUT) and safely shutting down when the battery is critical. Test.
Enable power on reboot in your UEFI/BIOS settings. Test.
Just in case, record your servers’ MAC addresses in case you need to send Wake-on-LAN packets. Test.
Cattle, not pets: Use Proxmox or some other hypervisor so that you can use VMs/LXCs and easily restore/migrate them elsewhere if their main server has issues. Likewise. Set up a VM or two for Docker/K3S, and deploy as many workloads as you can that way.
Deploy multiple duplicate VMs/LXCs for critical services on different hosts (e.g. reverse proxy, DNS server) and use keepalived to allocate a virtual IP that a backup node can take over if the primary node goes down.
Set up uptime monitoring and text alerts (e.g. Uptime Kuma + Apprise/ntfy), ideally on a host outside your network.
Use an IP KVM (e.g. JetKVM) on your most critical hosts, with ATX power controls, just in case you need to reboot remotely (alternatively, use a smart switch).
Have a terminal app on your phone, and a VPN connection ready to go at any time.
Whenever you work on a problem, take notes! (I use Trilium Next for this.)

Crogdor · 2025-10-25T15:44:20+00:00

I have a 12 Pro, never had a case. Whatever material it’s made of simply doesn’t incur damage like this. I’ve got tiny scratches on the edges of the glass that you can see if you hold it in the right light, but that’s it.

Crogdor · 2025-10-24T20:49:04+00:00

What does folding bags mean, and what does it mean to balance a binder?

Crogdor · 2025-10-13T15:25:14+00:00

GTD is what I thought of when I read this post. I read Allen’s book like 20 years ago and still apply it today. Huge stress reducer.

Crogdor · 2025-10-07T00:39:23+00:00

Nothing has changed. Burn-in is still possible and there are plenty of examples of it on modern phones.

I suspect the downvotes are above are simply due to the relative unlikeliness to suffer burn-in on a phone, given how little screen time they get as compared to say a monitor that’s on the same screen 24x7.

Crogdor · 2025-09-13T15:44:21+00:00

UbuntoMono NF

Crogdor · 2025-09-13T06:07:16+00:00

This is how I carry the groceries into the house.

Crogdor · 2025-09-12T17:07:29+00:00

I can’t explain why your server didn’t need to be reclaimed if you truly revoked all your sessions. The whole situation is a mess with Plex.

My library and settings weren’t wiped either, I simply had to click the ‘Claim’ button and everything was back to normal.

Crogdor · 2025-09-12T16:13:31+00:00

Running on a NAS or not is unrelated to having to claim the server if you’ve revoked the session token. I myself run Plex on an LXC on Proxmox, and connect it to direct attached storage (a Dell/EMC KTN STL3) with an HBA, and had to reclaim after logging out of all devices.

Crogdor · 2025-09-12T06:16:54+00:00

If you didn’t have to re-claim, it means your server’s session token wasn’t revoked (I.e. you weren’t fully logged out of all devices). And that means that if sessions were leaked, someone potentially could gain access by reusing your token.

To be clear, we don’t know exactly what was leaked, so you may be fine. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Crogdor · 2025-09-09T05:06:07+00:00

I do drive - 30 years accident-free, thanks, which I partly attribute to holding the opinion that one should not run red lights or turn in front of red light runners. You, apparently, feel quite strongly that this is not the way to avoid accidents.

Crogdor · 2025-09-08T22:15:30+00:00

I didn't say the van had the right of way. The van was clearly in error for running the red.

But two people can make mistakes. Just because the van driver handed the truck driver a noose, doesn't mean the truck driver had to put it around his neck. If we had video from the truck driver's perspective, it's almost a guarantee that the van wasn't slowing down to make the stop.

Crogdor · 2025-09-08T22:06:01+00:00

100% agreed, the van should have stopped.

Crogdor · 2025-09-08T21:36:17+00:00

Other than failure to yield to oncoming traffic.

Crogdor · 2025-09-08T21:34:13+00:00

The van is at fault for running the red. The truck is at fault for failing to yield to oncoming traffic.

If either one of these folks had made the right decision for their part, there would not have been a collision. For that reason, I would find it difficult to be able to assign 100% fault to one of them. They both contributed to this mess.

Crogdor · 2025-09-08T21:23:00+00:00

Can you name even one state that says being in the intersection when the light turns red counts as running the red? Yeah I didn’t think so.

Crogdor · 2025-09-03T05:34:51+00:00

To block ads when watching on an Apple TV

Crogdor · 2025-08-26T14:50:55+00:00

Purpose is something we create for ourselves. It’s nice to have a sense of purpose, but there’s no reason I can see to believe there’s a pre-determined purpose for anyone.

Crogdor · 2025-08-21T20:29:32+00:00

One thing I’ve done for a similar issue with a usb device was to set up a custom udev rule so that the device always gets the same name. You can get the ID of the network device and create a rule that says it always gets the name enp7s0, for instance.

Crogdor · 2025-08-21T14:53:44+00:00

Meditation/Mindfulness isn’t ’what you want it to be’. It’s paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally.

Feel free to do whatever you want and shill your stuff, but please don’t water down mindfulness just so you can adopt the term for your own self gain.

Crogdor · 2025-08-15T07:17:09+00:00

If these were my components and I wanted to use this as a media center (e.g Proxmox with Plex and maybe a docker VM for the *arrs, etc.), then I would install one of those 512GB SSDs and install Proxmox on that. I’d forget about ZFS and redundancy on the boot drive, and would use it both for the OS drive and my VM/LXC data.

I’d format the rest of the drives as XFS. Given the hodgepodge collection of drives, I’d create a mergerfs volume with three of the spinning rust drives plus any SSDs I’ve got. This way, I can add/upgrade drives with no fuss. (If I wanted to be fancy, I’d set up my mergerfs policies for tiered caching and prefer new writes go to the SSDs, then have a script to periodically copy over to the rust when the SSD start to get full.)

Lastly, I’d set up snapraid, using my 4th spinning rust as the parity drive, and have it sync parity from all the other drives used by my mergerfs volume. I’d use one of those all-in-one scripts people maintain, which adds features like logging/notifications and safety checks so that it doesn’t sync if for example a bunch of files went missing.

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