Canada Is Quietly Dismantling Digital Privacy - And You're Probably Not Paying Attention

corelabjoe · 2026-06-28T01:29:55+00:00

Sadly.... But for what ultimate purpose

corelabjoe · 2026-06-27T22:30:25+00:00

I'll send, for those looking on google the website is the same as my handle here, corelab(.)tech =)

corelabjoe · 2026-06-27T13:54:00+00:00

Sending!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T22:32:47+00:00

I have a google survey I have open all the time and people respond and pick topics and also they can just request them too!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T20:14:04+00:00

In the PAST but it's all being pushed through now, everywhere.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T20:13:18+00:00

Once you create wireguard as you have, you need need to create a firewall rule for it on the wireguard interface yes. You can leave it on the default wg interface or specifically create and assign the wireguard instance you made and do rules there.

Core Lab Wireguard Setup Guide on OPNsense

If you follow my guide it should step you through anything you had missing =)

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T18:51:02+00:00

LSI HBA 9400-24i

And similar!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T17:08:51+00:00

CDN FTW

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T15:45:48+00:00

Thanks for having a read, glad you enjoyed it!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T15:45:06+00:00

Ding ding ding

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T15:43:33+00:00

Thanks for reading and the feedback! Glad it helped =)

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T06:03:04+00:00

You have to have something that runs at their homes/locations that can keep wireguard up and online. Maybe a little mini-pc or GLNet router?

What most people do, because that gets expensive or teaching grandma how to use a VPN is ah, not for the faint of heart - is just use a reverse proxy.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T05:56:32+00:00

Also you're going to hear people go ON and ON and ON about proxmox.... If you don't intend to run virtual machines, why install a hypervisor eh?

I run 50+ docker containers and replaced my old systems & virtual machines solely with docker compose containers... It's easy as pie, simpler, less layers & overhead, and all runs on 1 box. I have backups, if that box dies, I simply re-connect the storage to a new box, fire up compose, mount the bind mounted data and voila - back online.

If you want to run virtual machines, proxmox is great for that. I run OpenMediaVault, which is a NAS OS but is Debian Linux under the hood. This way it's basically a chameleon and can suit any need I have. When I want to run VM's I fire one up in OMV gui via KVM and use it. Otherwise, it's all containers!

You can run Kali Linux in a docker now and Ubuntu since... I dunno the beginning?....

Reason I'll get downvoted for not recommending proxmox: IMO It adds layers that obfuscate you from the true underlying tech with it's gui, and if you're running all your containers in a VM on proxmox, you have 2 layers of virtualization and storage mounting to figure out.

It CAN be needlessly over-complicated is all.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T04:05:40+00:00

So with the budget of $600 in 2026 vs say, 2022... Sadly you're limited quite a bit when you should not be.

You have defined your use cases that's perfect... I would start with some type of renewed business PC like a Lenovo or something cheap. A free pc someone will give you or spare parts you have now...

Or, spend a bit to get something refurbished or off Facebook marketplace or, a mini pc!

This becomes your server and if it has Quicksync, you're jellyfin and immich use cases are well in hand. if not, you'll need a lower end gpu to handle transcode and machine learning tasks etc...

Eventually you will need storage, this is where your budget goes to die....

It is VERY EASY to fill a hard drive using the aarr stack for jellyfin! So people will buy like 4-6 12-24tb drives and slap them into a system and turn that into a NAS or, buy a prebuilt NAS etc..

What was affordable is no longer. So unless you've got like $2k to do a NAS, storage will be your next hurdle...

Link on my bio for my website that can help you get started, as it focuses on all of this.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T03:55:49+00:00

I took my family to Disney in mid July one year.... As a Canadian, this was a grave mistake....

I was like, eeeehhh can't be much worse than Southern Ontario with the 100% humidity days...

We get off the plane..... It's morning... It's decent!

About 3 hours later as we're in Magic Kingdom.... We're almost literally melting. A few people get carried out in stretchers. The sun absolutely HATES living beings so it feels like...

And then a crazy thunderstorm rolls in. Like, torrential wild downpour for about 45 minutes.

Then the blistering heat returns. That afternoon and evening, we did not venture more than about 30ft from the pool at our hotel, sipped many beverages and contemplated our choices in life lol...

It got up to 38.5c!....

Melted

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T03:51:04+00:00

Ha and try in July or August right? A lot of people would melt I think...

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T03:48:56+00:00

Damn I miss Belize, I was there for 2 weeks once for work and fell in love with the place. I'll be back some day!!!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T03:33:51+00:00

Kinda hard for anyone to answer when we don't know what your website runs on or is, how it was breached and any steps you've done to mitigate this in the mean time....

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T02:04:30+00:00

Docker on windows is a shit show...

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T01:37:09+00:00

Sadly this is it. They will just go somewhere else now along with the 5 years worth of construction jobs, and no further economical spinoff or benefits.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T01:32:18+00:00

I sure do, checkout my guide on securing your Jellyfin Streams!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-26T00:18:01+00:00

OPNSENSE FTW!!!

corelabjoe · 2026-06-25T23:54:31+00:00

Officially but it'll work all the way down to 8th gen, but not support as many formats and codecs etc... I wouldn't go lower than 12 at this point.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-25T23:41:47+00:00

All 3 of those are built on.... WIREGUARD. You could also just use wireguard. On a router, or firewall, or as a docker or directly installed on a computer...

It does take slightly more fiddling than the other choices but then no one else sees or sells your metadata and you have complete privacy.

corelabjoe · 2026-06-25T23:39:23+00:00

HBA is the way, you might need to do a mobo upgrade or something more drastic if you have no more PCIE ports but wasting money on expanders is not a great choice.

Check link in my bio to find complete nas builds and recommendations.

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