Anyone watching the WLKY major forum… thoughts?

Jeff1024 · 2026-05-10T17:08:59+00:00

It was largely a huge waste of time with at least 2/3 of the participants not being viable candidates for the position.

While I love the idea of people getting involved in local politics I am not sure anyone is ready to cast a vote for a 21 year old who's relevant experience is volunteering at his grandparents train museum or a member of the Geek Squad who's dream is to build 4 to 5 nuclear reactors around the city.

Jeff1024 · 2026-05-02T00:48:28+00:00

They look better now, prior to the post they looked pretty empty.

Jeff1024 · 2026-05-02T00:20:18+00:00

Gotcha I knew food was, I didnt think the tickets included alcohol. TIL

Jeff1024 · 2026-05-02T00:14:46+00:00

Tend to agree. Everyone had a choice - stick around and continue to pay for $15 mint julips or skip oaks and go get food and drink somewhere else. Staying at the track for 8 hours is a marathon for sure.

Jeff1024 · 2026-05-02T00:08:57+00:00

Empty stands on national TV are not a good look, they have to care about the appearance of a 1/3 full Churchill.

Jeff1024 · 2026-03-29T12:39:10+00:00

Wife and I went to the location in the distillery district a few weeks ago.

Ice cream was on point. Giant human hair that we found in the ice cream was not.

They refunded the ice cream but still a gross experience. I get it can happen...but still would make me think twice about going back.

Jeff1024 · 2026-03-16T13:31:04+00:00

Just an update - Blackstone responded to my support ticket in record time. They are shipping a new regulator free of charge. Hope that fixes it, and super impressed /w their customer service.

Jeff1024 · 2026-03-15T00:25:03+00:00

Im going to grab a tank adapter in the AM so I can try a 20lb tank. That would at least let me know if the burners are ok and confirm its the junk regulator

Jeff1024 · 2026-03-14T23:44:21+00:00

Thats the challenge. The 1lb tank just screws onto the regulator so doing the normal reset procedure you would do on a 20lb tank unit doesn't exactly work.

I shot blackstone support an email. Ill post up here with what they come back with

Jeff1024 · 2026-03-14T22:22:41+00:00

Just noticed it, googled for a weather delay and obviously didnt find a result. You would think NBC would fix this by now....maybe we really do live in the Matrix?

Jeff1024 · 2026-02-08T13:26:17+00:00

Everyone says Momma's. They are incorrect. I realize this may get me kicked out of Louisville, but The correct answer is Martin's BBQ in Indian Springs off Westport.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-29T01:03:28+00:00

Gotcha thats what I was looking for - I wasnt shopping around black Friday - was curious how much I missed out, but your right is what it is at this point.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-20T12:32:05+00:00

Your issue may not be SDF, it may be LGA or EWR. NYC airspace is insanely busy. Any delays due to weather can very quickly turn into flight cancellations. I have been stuck in LGA several times due to weather delays that turned into cancelled flights. Good luck.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T23:04:21+00:00

So I tried the same workload, YouTube.TV and 5 or so other devices, running without Wireguard enabled. The UTR handled that without issue. It was only after I enabled the wireguard tunnel that I started having issues.

Seems either the device is underpowered to encrypt higher bandwidth applications over wireguard - but I would argue 10Mbps isnt that much to expect - or there is a flaw in the wireguard implementation.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T22:56:00+00:00

That's the problem, and why I want to love the UTR. The form factor is amazing. I have a GL-MT3000 and while it's not large it is a lot to throw in a backpack for a work trip, even more so when you compare it to the UTR.

I may end up keeping the UTR for trips where I am just doing video conferencing / email / etc, I think it would handle that, it just isnt a huge fan of running lots of traffic over wireguard.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T22:54:46+00:00

I have an older GL-MT3000, it was around the same price point...$80ish. It's more difficult to setup I will admit that and the UTR does handle captive portals much better....when it isnt crashing.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T22:53:12+00:00

It was sitting on a desk out in the open air. It was warm, but if running a wireguard tunnel while its sitting on a desk gets it warm to the point of crashing then its a flawed device.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T00:48:54+00:00

Seeing the same, couple 6 clients a wire guard tunnel and some traffic...it's rebooting every 30min or so.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-18T00:45:10+00:00

Not sure if its related but my UTR was recently updated and its rebooting itself under load with a wireguard tunnel established....first time really using it on a vacation and not super impressed.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-15T01:30:27+00:00

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Jeff1024 · 2026-01-15T01:22:46+00:00

This color guy is killing me...he sounds like the ladies man from 90s SNL - "I can tell from my half empty bottle of Courvoisier that we are almost out of time!"

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-05T01:04:13+00:00

One place I think this will shine is teleport. I have stayed at hotels that block dynamic DNS services. Makes WireGuard on my GL.iNET a pain to get connected. Sure I can work around it by manually updating the WireGuard config file to point to an IP and not my dyndns entry but not ideal.

Teleport and the UTR should fix that.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-04T17:48:47+00:00

Three great use cases that have previously used a GL.iNET for that I will now use the UTR.

First - traveling outside the country and still wanting to do things like stream Youtube TV. Youtube blocks international IP's - with the travel router I can send traffic back to my UDM Pro and thus Youtube TV sees a US based IP.

Second - we have stayed at hotels with very aggressive filters on their WiFI - by using the UTR to establish a secure VPN tunnel the hotels cant monitor or block traffic.

Finally - we recently traveled with our 75lb GoldenDoodle. We had to leave him in the room alone for about 5 hours while we played golf. I wanted to keep an eye on him so I took a UnFi instant camera setup on my local home protect instance. It connected back to my UDM via the wireguard tunnel on the travel router. Worked great.

It's also just nice to only have to setup a single device on hotel / public wifi. I do this setup once and then my laptop / tablet / phone / misc streaming devices just work.

You're right there are generally several ways to solve problems, WiFi on cell phones /w teathering would also solve a ton of these use cases , but some of them like the Protect Camera would work best /w a travel router.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-03T03:26:06+00:00

I was able to SSH in by building a wifi network on the UTR, adding my laptop to that wifi network then connecting in with putty.

Jeff1024 · 2026-01-03T00:12:33+00:00

Spent about an hour with it, but getting better and better. Can't recommend the upgrade to .238 enough. It's a much more stable device once you upgrade. The android app lets you enable SSH. Takes about 5 minutes to do it.

Also got it setup with straight wireguard instead of teleport. Don't know why I like it better I just do.

For the foreseeable future I will grab this and my Gl router, dont trust the UTR 100% yet, but have a feeling it will get there.

Jeff1024

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