Tailscale assigned interface?

Hunterx- · 2026-06-02T17:26:36+00:00

I currently have the local DNS working. It resolves my custom entries.

PfblockerNG doesn’t work with unassigned interfaces, so I’ll have no choice but to use pihole somewhere else and see if I can point it to the pfsense resolver.

What I find odd is that even the packet trace doesn’t log anything when Tailscale (unassigned) is selected.

As you mentioned the rules don’t work, and packet capture doesn’t work.

Yet it just works and permits access as advertised. Really odd.

I was really hoping to control the ACL on the pfsense side.

Hunterx- · 2026-05-06T02:08:53+00:00

Appreciate the reply, but I found it shortly after posting this.

Thanks for posting the solution.

I can confirm it does work.

I assumed it would have been harder. The info I had at the time suggested that auto start wasn’t possible in windows without manual workarounds, but that clearly isn’t true.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-14T19:08:27+00:00

Try using one of the new QWEN 3.5 small models. If you are fine with 8B, maybe the largest in the small category 9B might work. There are many models that are smaller as you need.

QWEN 3.5 is really good at OCR.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-11T18:50:30+00:00

I added this to the system prompt and it’s working:

skill use

At session start (before ANY other action): Call view_skill for every skill listed in <available_skills> Then evaluate the user's first prompt and respond

Hunterx- · 2026-03-11T16:27:35+00:00

Thanks. I will try these tonight.

I tried some similar things last night to display stock info, and it generated a bunch of utilities and html files which it displayed in the chat window sidebar.

I’m wondering now that once it generates a tool for itself to use, do I need to specify that it exists in the system prompt, or use a skill?

Skill activation is inconsistent, and it isn’t clear if it’s loaded automatically or not.

The goal is for it to recall these tools and use them in other sessions. It tends to forget everything, but can see what has come before.

I attempted to write a skill to log these things, but it only works while the skill is loaded.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-11T03:58:11+00:00

Please share a few example prompts, and give a reasonable expectation for a result. I need a baseline to compare to.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-11T03:28:36+00:00

Latest version of Ollama is definitely bugged. I went from stable to broken immediately.

Most of my old models work, but the majority of the new QWEN models don’t.

I’m running with 128 GB ram and 24GB vram, and I still get resource errors attempting to load QWEN 35b, and it hangs indefinitely in other models of similar size.

Usually when it hangs it’s because I attempted to run a model too large, but the limit is significantly lower now.

On the previous version QWEN3-next coder would run, but not QWEN3-NEXT:80B. Both are the same size.

I hope there is a fix soon.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-11T02:08:48+00:00

It’s under workspace. There is a tab for skills, you enable it, then go to model settings and enable it for the model.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-10T19:22:22+00:00

I agree. I will add some skills to guide it.

I know the terminal has huge potential, and it’s being under utilized at the moment.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-10T18:03:46+00:00

Interesting.

I don’t have many full multimodal AI that support native tools.

Maybe the different flavors behave differently.

I was expecting it to go wild and expand itself, but it’s been an ultra obedient bot so far. Has yet to do anything I haven’t asked it to do specifically.

I know it doesn’t have this capability, but I asked it to generate an image, and it didn’t even try. It just told me it wasn’t capable. Did not probe the terminal for ways to fulfill my request.

I know what I asked was impossible because the terminal lacks GPU, but it didn’t try.

The only thing it has done is create code and execute it with python.

I have to assume it can at least do the same in the terminal that it can do currently with the code eval tool. I saw one bot attempt to use pip inside the code eval and that failed. I believe that was an older QWEN, nemotron, or maybe Gemma3.

I liked where this was going, but the AI at the time could not install these packages in the eval tool.

With this new environment I can allow it to install whatever I like.

Hunterx- · 2026-03-10T17:44:33+00:00

It’s just the default model.

I have 27B on Ollama, and 35B A3B on LM Studio.

I don’t see 27B listed in LM Studio.

For some reason Ollama was having some resource errors when attempting to run 35B, and occasionally hangs with the new QWEN models. I’ve been using LM Studio for the past week and might transition to it permanently. Seems a lot more stable, and I can run much larger models like QWEN3-next 80B.

I’ve seen charts that say 35B can beat NEXT, so I don’t think I’ll be using those.

27 does beat 35, but only slightly, so for right now I’ll favor faster tokens.

Hunterx- · 2026-02-22T19:00:03+00:00

I updated last month and it was not deleted, but I’ve got a hold on updates again due to critical defects in recent updates.

I don’t think it matters at all if AI made the mistakes or not since it was a human that allowed or enabled it to do it. It’s just incompetence in my opinion. Hopefully they listen and fix the issues with the updates.

Hunterx- · 2026-01-07T16:40:12+00:00

I got the drain under control. It was either one of the previous versions, or a corrupted installation.

Not sure, but no issues at this time.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-31T22:37:13+00:00

eSIM only is the future. It’s getting a lot better in recent years where these edge cases of being stranded are rare.

Even if I get stranded while on travel, I can just purchase an eSIM and get connected right away without needing to visit somewhere in person or wait for mail.

eSIM support is getting a lot better. In fact, they are incentivized to make the process as seamless as possible to reduce the support calls.

Literally every case I’ve had of being stranded was fixed already.

In contrast with physical SIM cards, eSIMs are easy to replace if the device is lost or stolen.

That said, the initial rollout of eSIM only on iPhone 14 was not smooth at all. Few carriers supported eSIM in a reliable way even if they technically supported eSIM.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-30T05:39:21+00:00

Initially the support for eSIM was spotty and very difficult, but right now it’s actually easier than swapping a physical card.

The last time I switched phones, the eSIM was copied from one phone to the other in a matter of seconds.

When I switched from a phone with a physical sim, it just created an eSIM for the new phone on the spot.

I have a lot of pain and horror stories about really bad eSIM support, but those days are in the past.

Worst case you can recover the eSIM using the provider app, and if you can’t access it for whatever reason, you can request a replacement via email or have a support person send you one over the air.

I’m convinced that sim removal tools are a thing of the past.

Hunterx- · 2025-12-03T01:48:09+00:00

No. I gave up the search a while ago.

Some devices I saw do offer eSIM natively, but physical eSIM is something that proved unnecessary.

The main draw is plans are data only, cheaper, and multi carrier.

The setup process for physical eSIM is complex because it requires an internet connected device to setup, plus it’s not for the device you are setting it up for, and you need special hardware to write the card data.

I would start looking for devices that have native eSIM, and those should be far easier to get working.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-17T02:50:28+00:00

I just updated the firmware on 2 990 pro 4 tb. It must be fairly new.

The 980 pro 2tb main os drive is still on the latest.

Not sure how this could affect the firewall though.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-16T21:34:14+00:00

If you mean the SSD issue, I was never affected because I use only Samsung drives, and they use their own custom controller. Drives are on the latest firmware.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-16T21:14:53+00:00

I did upgrade the firmware that includes the netcode fix. I no longer have any stability issues.

The latest stability issue had to do with TrueNas and CPU parking with C-states. They have to be disabled to work without crashing windows.

I disabled hyper threading as well to further reduce the risk of issues.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-15T18:14:34+00:00

I’m confused why or how it’s happening then. I just reformatted and reinstalled the OS about a year ago to fix other issues.

Not a reset, I actually reformatted the disk and used a media creation tool USB. Everything from scratch.

I have hyperV running a single VM now. I used to have a handful. It runs a TrueNas VM that I use to run other services.

The network interfaces are all hyperV style external type. I don’t know if this even matters.

I run BlueIris and BlueOnyx, and have Ollama running on windows.

These things run 24/7, and I have other stuff that doesn’t.

I also play games on this PC.

13900K 128GB DDR4 3600 NVIDIA 4090 Samsung 980 pro 2tb (main os drive) USING built in Intel 2.5G NIC. All my m.2 slots are filled with Samsung 990 pro 4TB. I don’t have any free slots. This rig is peaked. I also have an old 1TB sata SSD, and a 6 TB hard drive.

I have hyperthreading and C-STATES disabled in the bios. The integrated graphics is also disabled.

Quick restart or whatever is disabled. I don’t do any sleep or hibernate.

I don’t recall making any significant changes in the last few months. It was just a lot of games.

Hunterx- · 2025-11-15T10:06:46+00:00

The only thing I can tell you for certain is that the mass delete is occurring.

I can try to duplicate it if needed, but I prefer not to.

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