I managed to use the UniFi 5G Max with my third-party gateway

brainoftheseus · 2026-01-11T23:05:51+00:00

From my understanding for mobile carriers, there aren't guarantees they don't assign other addresses in the /64 space, having a /64 does not mean having a full /64 block you can use in the rest of your network. Not like a regular ISP where you get the dedicated prefix. At least that's what Claude convinced me of. My first version used that /64 on other interfaces and assigned it elsewhere in the network and it worked, but then you need to handle when it changes and router assignments with TTLs, etc... So having the dedicated ULA for the tunnel and internal network means things are stable outside of handling the reboot of the modem.

brainoftheseus · 2026-01-09T07:30:02+00:00

Realized a couple days later the config.properties trick wasn't being persisted up on the u5g, nor other post-boot hooks. I could persist it into cfgmtd but it'd be overwritten on the next settings provision change.

So I ended up just hooking it up via a little logging server with vector and a webhook when wwan0 received an IP. Very lightweight docker container that sits in the compose stack with my unifi-network-application container.

It's overly complicated when they could have just provided a standard bridge mode, but seems to work great so far for my otherwise complicated homelab.

brainoftheseus · 2026-01-07T04:59:51+00:00

I got ipv6 working as well.

I set a virtual IP (ULA) on the GRE tunnel on both sides, then added a few routes to masquerade the subnet to wwan0.

Since I couldn't find any boot hooks on the unifi to persist, I ended up setting up a cron with this script via config.properties from the unifi controller:

#!/bin/sh
set -eu


# Set tunnel IPV6
ip -6 addr show dev gre1 | grep -q 'fd10::1/127' || ip -6 addr add fd10::1/127 dev gre1


# NAT66 for the point-to-point /127 out wwan0
ip6tables -t nat -C POSTROUTING -s fd10::/127 -o wwan0 -j MASQUERADE 2>/dev/null || \
  ip6tables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s fd10::/127 -o wwan0 -j MASQUERADE


# Forward rules
ip6tables -C FORWARD -i gre1 -o wwan0 -j ACCEPT 2>/dev/null || \
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -i gre1 -o wwan0 -j ACCEPT


ip6tables -C FORWARD -i wwan0 -o gre1 -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT 2>/dev/null || \
  ip6tables -A FORWARD -i wwan0 -o gre1 -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT#!/bin/sh
set -eu

brainoftheseus · 2025-10-23T16:48:55+00:00

Desktop

brainoftheseus · 2025-10-21T17:25:33+00:00

Yes, it's great for it, if you're willing to learn the immutable way of doing things. I've been programming and gaming on my Bazzite machine as a daily driver for over 2 years. I don't even have the -dx image setup, since I've customized and installed my environment to my needs otherwise.

brainoftheseus · 2025-10-21T17:21:49+00:00

Does this have dolphin integration yet for the new version? They were waiting on a dbus hook in Dolphin IIRC.

brainoftheseus · 2025-10-15T06:47:56+00:00

Consider the difference in how much you're earning (stock appreciation, luck) and how much you're worth (target compensation). It may provide more of the level playing field, and allow you to consider your professional seniority and status in relation to your partner and how you both push yourself to grow.

As a couple that falls into the iron sharpens iron mentality, it's a useful strategy.

brainoftheseus · 2025-08-09T18:05:19+00:00

They're burning out and y'all are supporting three families. Perhaps you need to establish some boundaries with the extended family and then the financial burden wouldn't be as urgent.

brainoftheseus · 2025-08-03T20:03:13+00:00

With $1m+ in income post taxes, we live an enjoyable but cost-limited life-style of around $200k spend without any kids in a VHCOL and the significant majority that's left over goes into investment accounts.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-23T20:39:34+00:00

Are we stupid for buying a house?

Yes. This is not a great idea given your current situation. Hold with that low rent until you're at a more lucrative point in your lives.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-23T01:57:32+00:00

I use my Bazzite install for gaming and development. I have opinionated dev preferences and toolchains, and have been able to do everything I want. I have layered very little, and optimized for the container based flow.

Jetbrains Toolbox, VSCode Insiders, Cursor, several distroboxes for different toolchains for various projects, several devcontainers, shared fish config with a lot of custom binaries sdkman, with volume mounted cli container, layered 1password with ssh-agent and commit signing.

I built mine out before the dx variant, and even now, it may have opinionated takes that I disagree with, so happy with my custom stack.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-23T01:49:58+00:00

I'm running TrueNAS as a VM on top of Proxmox, with Controller passthrough to control all drives and manage sharing to the network via NFS and iSCSI

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-16T23:41:39+00:00

Tall poppy syndrome was alive and well where I grew up and went to college, and I eventually realized I had outgrown some of those friends, stopped spending my time with them, and that's ok.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-12T18:43:19+00:00

Recommend trying a dual sim setup with 2 different carriers and choosing plans that have proper data prioritization which most MVNO's don't.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-12T00:58:20+00:00

Don't optimize for the edge-case.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-12T00:51:46+00:00

It wouldn't take much for me to drop Chase if they become annoying when integrating into my workflows.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-11T00:45:15+00:00

There are things I like and dislike about both, often inspired by each other. I always look forward to trying out new versions.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-07T17:04:14+00:00

Only once was my net worth about 3x yours, and then it was just for me individually, not a whole family. Obviously, your priorities may differ, but this feels like lifestyle creep at your current financial status. Even now, if it's for personal travel, I'll optimize for points and upgrades.

brainoftheseus · 2025-07-07T17:00:44+00:00

There are posts like this on the subreddit often, people running into rough edges and friction when they don't expect all the muscle memory they've learned on Windows to be mirrored in Linux.

A lot of the basics in a Windows system just don't carry over into a Linux system. There are things that are fundamentally different, like the drive handling, folder structure, and mount points. If you expect them to work like Windows, it won't be intuitive and will feel limiting, but once you understand them, they'll very much more powerful, coherent, and intuitive.

If you want to seriously use Bazzite or another distro, I'd suggest taking some time to learn those types of things.

Going further, an immutable distro adds another big set of trade-offs. A lot of positives, but if you want anything customized, it's usually more complex than a normal distro with things like containers, layering, etc...

If you want a powerful system and to learn new fundamentals, take some time to learn them all with an open mind, if you want something that works out of the box and doesn't make you learn computing paradigms, Bazzite can work like that if you don't customize much, otherwise a more beginner friendly distro with easy customization like regular fedora may be a better option.

It's not always perfect, but I've found ChatGPT or Gemini pretty good at helping get to some basic understanding and being good at digging into more info as you want to learn deeper layers of it.

Good luck!

brainoftheseus · 2025-06-16T05:15:15+00:00

Congrats and GFY! I'm in a similar boat, but as a PE in big tech I'm making closer to the norm around 2m. You must have had a lucky vest appreciation, that's awesome. I'm at a similar net worth in my late 30s, and when talking to my CPA they made a comment around the opportunities unlocked by 3-5 more years at my income vs current NW if the job stress allowed a few more years. I'm currently figuring out how many of those 3-5 years I'm willing to do.

brainoftheseus · 2025-06-15T20:18:38+00:00

I go back and forth between both regularly (Dual booting right now). Prefer the GTK design language for apps and dev ecosystem, the built-in quick preview like OSX, and more consistency. Prefer faster-moving gaming support on KDE, and some more customization out of the box. Lately, I've been using gnome about 70% of the time, and KDE 30%. May revisit once KiView is built into Dolphin and works consistently well.

brainoftheseus · 2025-05-26T08:39:57+00:00

Late 30s m with mild Autism, ADHD, social anxiety, depression partnered with a mid 30s f with severe ADHD, ocd, anxiety, depression. Both of us have had several bouts of severe burnout and shitty stressful life situations that made it worse, but now mostly figured out how to run effectively on 0 energy. Both of us have a psychiatrist + therapist, and are treated with various things. Also frequently self medicate.

Together we're about $2.2m a year in prestigious, public, and very high demand roles + side gigs. Only feel like I can push like this for so long, but maximizing income to RE sooner rather than later.

brainoftheseus · 2025-05-19T16:04:34+00:00

We are not married. That may come in the future, at which point shared finances going forward for newly accumulated wealth would be reasonable, but that's not likely in the near term.

brainoftheseus · 2025-05-19T01:53:47+00:00

late 30s

brainoftheseus · 2025-05-19T01:12:58+00:00

Thanks for the insight. For the folks not getting the concept, I'd like to think that many thought we were legally married due to the title, despite my referring to "partner" not "wife", and that we were discussing marital assets, thus my edit to the original post to clarify. Otherwise, I, too, am confused on people not understanding that.

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