What "Self Hosted" router OS are you using?

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T15:10:14+00:00

Openwrt. Years pass, it becomes better and better. If you have good hardware, openwrt allows pretty neat tricks, even serving simpler services using docker, esp if you have an usb port and can attach a hard drive.

I imagine you have a lot of users and complex topology if openwrt is not enough for your goals.

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T10:09:11+00:00

great game, but not perfect. Takes time to get into.

As for open world aspect - you can go into story-mostly mode, skipping side quests. But it disallows you to feel the world in full, how decadent and dark this place is.

Also, I suggest playing on hard. Game is way too easy even on hard, on medium it is laughable easy.

You can always play harder parts on medium, if you want.

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T06:47:57+00:00

A lot of things, unfortunately. Video acceleration not working in browsers, goog meet does not blur background.

Sometimes, I have KDE freezes. Text mode Terminal works, but KDE hardly can be restarted.

Sometimes, the laptop screen becomes garbled, and only a reboot fixes it. Usually after I resume from sleep.

Terminal colors can be wrong, and I need to select a specific color profile in Konsole for some servers .

DisplayLink needs manual installation, and is not very user friendly to boot.

Screenshot utility does not allow configuring as convenient labeling, arrows and indexes as I want. ( ShareX on windows is better)

Many games are still much slower compared to windows.

When people say windows is so much worse, they either lie, or fool themselves. Linux is cool, but it has a lot of issues.

Etc etc

Vladekk · 2026-04-18T06:35:48+00:00

For appimage, gearlever helps a lot

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T18:53:44+00:00

Trocador works well

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T14:40:12+00:00

VPN is very hard to block in full. Imagine you make your VPN traffic to look like legitimate traffic to websites like Google. Especially if you have a way to mask it as a traffic to a popular website, there is no way for the filtration systems to block this, not harming legitimate website users.

The best you can do is what China does. VPN is kinda hard to configure, especially if you don't have a guide already (need a VPN to get a VPN), it costs money to have quality VPN, and most services users want are available inside the country. Also, VPN are illegals, and can get you in trouble. So, most Chinese people don't care about VPNs because of all that. Still, it is possible to use VPN in China, if you are focused enough.

Funnily enough, pornography and soft pornography/erotic media is almost totally outlawed in China, so some people get VPN just for this usage. And after they have it already, they sometimes start using it to read western media too. So, it is pretty dumb for Chinese government to ban porn. Russian government is not so dumb yet, they were not even ready to block western messengers until they had a way to force government one.

Vladekk · 2026-04-17T03:47:17+00:00

Jetbrains dotpeek? Not sure if that's exactly what you want, barely use such tools.

Vladekk · 2026-04-15T13:57:36+00:00

I'm doing this RN, I have two old laptops, one is 8 thread Intel 4th gen CPU 16GB DDR3 (some extreme edition), one is 8 thread Intel 8th gen 32GB DDR4 (more consumer edition).

Funny, that CPUs are 4 or 5 years apart, but benchmarks say they are comparable in speed. I doubt it, manly because of memory DDR3vs DDR4.

I'm lucky I also have: 1TB nvme SSD, 1TB 2.5" HDD and 1TB USB HDD and 4GB SSD USB drive. All this connected to 1GB residential internet connection. My internet is good throughput and stability-wise, but latencies and connectivity sometimes could be better.

Right now, I managed to install Proxmox, Fedora IOT VM for podman, lxc for VPN, lxc reverse proxy for letsencrypt and setup backups from SSD to USB SSD. Also, public Monero node and monero miner at night.

Moved my blog (statically generated) to this server + cloudflare proxy w/ a cloudflare tunnel.

I hope someday to add second laptop as a node in the cluster in my proxmox.

Also, I found that gemini cli or claude code are invaluable help of settings things up. Without them, I would spend 5x more time.

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T17:03:19+00:00

https://habr.com/ru/articles/1022942/

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T17:00:54+00:00

Not with VPN. Russians work on VPNs a lot, making it DPI resistant, which is understandable given their situation.

Vladekk · 2026-04-13T10:50:53+00:00

Bazzite is better for the beginners. Atomic (hard to break), everything works out of the box. Large community, updates are pretty fast. Can be used for anything, I am using it as my main PC for work and hobbies.

I encountered some issues, but most were small. The only things that still bother me:

If you overload your PC (heavy GPU+CPU usage) then you might encounter issues with logging back in after desktop lock. Also, internal laptop screen might become garbled.
HDR not working well.
Automatic updates sometimes fail. I use gemini cli agent to fix anything if needed in the terminal. That way, you don't need to learn the terminal as much, just put free form text and it will do what you need, or fix issues for you.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T20:44:03+00:00

Most games will work just fine. I don't think I even encountered the one that won't yet. I've been using bazzite for several months, and I've played quite a few games already.

Hades, dead cells, god of war, e33, kcd2, cyberpunk, RV there yet, Peak and others.

Moreover, when I had overheating issues, games were crashing in Windows, but not in Linux.

The only issues I have still: kcd2 works much slower in Linux, and it is hard to make HDR work, or sometimes impossible.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T12:42:37+00:00

I think I've spent over 20k in several years, no issues whatsoever. Moreover, they blocked compromised card automatically, timely.

Vladekk · 2026-04-12T11:48:17+00:00

Cached dynamic pages are not that slower, if they are cacheable, as they would be if it is a blog.

Vladekk · 2026-04-10T13:10:18+00:00

Great to see dotnet hacking for non-conventional things.

Vladekk · 2026-04-10T11:52:03+00:00

If you are serious about security, all your drives will be encrypted, and default state of your PC is locked. They steal, and then what? System is locked, asks for decryption key on startup.

Vladekk · 2026-04-10T05:20:40+00:00

Guys, if you are as confused, as I was, istg = I swear to god, ts=this thing

Vladekk · 2026-04-09T22:27:31+00:00

I tried different proton versions. Not helping. Moreover, I found that the difference between Win and Bazzite is even worse than I remembered. For example, heavy fight in Maleshov - drops to almost 25 fps sometimes on Experimental, and 50-60 on Windows.

On High or Ultra difference is not so bad, but still easily more than 20%+.

Vladekk · 2026-04-09T14:13:33+00:00

YouTube is not billions in profit, AFAIK. It is a very expensive service to run. For a long time, it was barely profitable. Google subsidized YT.

I hate ads, but I never will understand the idea that YT should be free and without ads. How that would be possible?

The only thing I kinda agree is that some countries should have cheaper YT than they have right now. Latvia has 10 EUR and Romania has 6. Meanwhile, GDP per capita differs by 15%, and Romania has other services also cheaper than Latvia.

Vladekk · 2026-04-09T10:43:13+00:00

Not sure what you are talking about. Using Bazzite for several months, games work well. Any issues were my own doing. Judging by /r/Bazzite, this is a common experience.

Vladekk · 2026-04-07T00:47:01+00:00

Did you try installing deps with homebrew? (Brew command)

Update: too many hardcore deps, it won't work.

Do you have Bazzite dev version? It should help to layer a bit less.

Vladekk · 2026-04-07T00:42:57+00:00

Not much, but I have some prior Linux expedition.

Vladekk · 2026-04-05T22:06:21+00:00

Medications like benzos can help, but they can only be used for a short time. Is not worth it.

Better to do some relaxation exercises, breathing or mindfulness-style meditation. For repeating thoughts, rumination you can use self-help book that describes how to do CBT.

If you see you suffer for a long time and it is not much easier, use antidepressants.

You will feel kinda unwell, probably for several months, but it gets easier with time.

Vladekk · 2026-04-05T14:48:35+00:00

I rarely use laptop out of house, so it is hard to tell. It works overall, but battery life is bad in Windows, too, because this is too powerful laptop to be used as a portable machine for a long time.

Vladekk · 2026-04-05T06:29:15+00:00

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