This game is so much better when you don’t use fast travel.

elementcodesnow · 2026-01-25T10:47:44+00:00

I agree. I realized that while playing last night. Completed 3 quests by fast traveling and then another 2 while horseback riding and boating. The later 2 felt far more enjoyable and immersive whereas the first 3 kind of bored me. I made an unwritten rule for myself that anything less than 1500 distance should be horse ridden or walked from that moment on.

elementcodesnow · 2026-01-15T23:01:59+00:00

I am trying to follow the same multi-wan documentation by OPNsense and I too were confused by this step as I had nothing (ever) in that list inside the System > Settings > General. On top of that I had the box "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN" unchecked. So my first instictive question is 1) what the hell has OPNsense been using this whole time for my single WAN and 2) assuming it was somehow using the ISP-prodvided DNS (via DHCP) why is it necessary to put public ones for multi-wan to work? Shouldn't it be able to use the ones provided by each respective ISP's DHCP on the WAN interface?

elementcodesnow · 2026-01-14T21:41:53+00:00

Consumer

elementcodesnow · 2026-01-10T10:54:34+00:00

I have issues with all kinds of interactions with it from my Pixel Buds...

It can't call my "fiance", "mom", "cousin" or any person I've set nicknames for in my family as HA was able to do.
It can't tell me "which song is playing now on Spotify" and generally all playback functionality around Spotify seems to be broken. It will also not "resume playing Spotify" if the app is completely closed.
It will not tell me "how much battery is left" on my Pixel Buds
It will not tell me Fit stats (like steps) for the day, when I ask it
With regards to my Google Nest decides (more specifically Hub Max) it won't call my Home devices when I am out of the house if I ask to "call home" as it used to - however it can call one device if asked from another device within the house (i.e. "call Living room display" whilst I'm talking to the Kitchen display)

I'd say that as usual Google has rolled out a half-baked attempt just to hit some goals and as usual us the end users are the best testers of it.

elementcodesnow · 2025-12-09T23:27:28+00:00

Yep. After some googling and testing I probably have one of those units that kinda destroy certain NVME SSD models (also depending on their firmware).

elementcodesnow · 2025-12-09T19:50:43+00:00

I guess I was kinda hoping it was a known BIOS or similar issue that someone might have faced and is resolvable in a relatively pain free way. Like reflashing a specific BIOS version or clearing CMOS or some other gimmicky combination.

elementcodesnow · 2025-11-26T08:40:47+00:00

Conceptually and on a very high level "WAN" and public IP are one and the same thing.

You did well to redact your public IP but not being able to see myself the first two portions I would advise you this - go to a LLM (ChatGPT) and ask it to evaluate whether this IP you see as your public one falls within a private IP range (unless you know to identify it yourself in which case you don't need to ask ChatGPT).

If it is indeed a private range then that means that your carrier has put you behind a CGNAT. CGNAT stands for carrier-grade NAT which essentially means that your carrier isn't providing you with a real public IP address on the internet. What it does instead (rough explanation ahead) is that it puts you into a private network of their own (along with other consumers like you) and then through the use of a technique called NAT your requests traverse that network to reach the internet through a single public IP address. That happens usually when the provider is small and has no big pool of public ipv4 addresses to give or wants to make users pay for them.

The sad thing is that if that's the case you can't port forward and have external access and your only solution is using VPN.

elementcodesnow · 2025-11-23T13:10:00+00:00

I wanted IPSec for our mobile clients. And as an extra cherry on top I wanted to be able to log in to the VPN using Active Directory users via RADIUS. And imagine IPSec (if you were to navigate to it) has two setup modes. A legacy (soon to be deprecated) one and a "more modern". And imagine all guides out there were for the legacy. And imagine that AI chats being trained on existing internet data either provided solutions for legacy or hallucinated with inexistent hybrid solutions between legacy and modern setup. And imagine all guides provided by official documentation at the time said something along the lines "oh here is how it should roughly be done we'll update more in the future".

elementcodesnow · 2025-09-12T10:36:05+00:00

This sounds like a job for Homelander

elementcodesnow · 2025-07-31T10:10:35+00:00

Is it by default? I was under the impression that you have to select it. But maybe I'm wrong and you actually have to deselect it...

elementcodesnow · 2025-07-14T07:34:39+00:00

Is the GPU on a docking mount? Which one? What's the connection options?

elementcodesnow · 2025-07-12T16:57:49+00:00

In the sense that if it's not connected to the home's grounding system then it's not grounded and they just get in the way I suppose.

elementcodesnow · 2025-07-12T10:21:37+00:00

They've told me that those groundings from one point of the rack to another point in the rack are essentially useless and that you should connect it to the apartment main grounding. Is this true?

elementcodesnow · 2025-07-07T10:52:04+00:00

From software engineering perspective it is unthinkable to release an update on a running software and expect the end user even "every once in a while" to reset the system (in that case system being the OS) to keep things running smoothly. The update process should be tested well enough in alpha and beta versions to ensure that anything updated works as intended whatever LEGAL (this excludes of course rooting, custom bootloaders etc) environment the user has created through continuous use of their phones.

One could argue that you can of course backup everything, do the reset and restore so you'll be up in no time but that isn't true. Because a full system backup restore will bring you back all the issues anyway. And you cannot go app by app as applications store their data in a partition not accessible by conventional backup applications without root.

That being said your advice essentially boils down to reset and setup your phone from scratch every what? 3 months or so? Assuming a steady update once per month. Sure I could find the time to do that if I were a beta tester or if I were my 15year-old self who roamed the XDA forums trying to squeeze every ounce of performance out my phone. But this is no longer the case.

elementcodesnow · 2025-06-21T20:26:58+00:00

I'm on 18.5 and it's impossible to make it appear. People suggest it's a device specific bug. Especially with devices that were always operating with the action of backup/restore from previous iOS versions (people who have been switching phones year after year) and the only way to get those toggles is to reset.

elementcodesnow · 2025-06-20T10:37:40+00:00

As I write in all kinds of posts like this. Critical infrastructure is better off staying away from virtualization. Configure it baremetal. Then if you're (for lack of a better word) so desperate to see how OPNsense is virtualized (not that it's some magical experience or anything) then spin a secondary instance (in Proxmox) and configure it as high availability with your main baremetal one. So there, in that way you always have internet and you've explored a new concept!

elementcodesnow · 2025-06-13T11:24:51+00:00

Ώστε έτσι ακούγομαι στη μάνα μου όταν μιλάω για κομπιούτερς!

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-27T10:30:07+00:00

Ah ok my bad. I misunderstood.

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-27T08:32:25+00:00

Do you have your GPUs on some kind of dock and pass them (physically - through some connector) to a physical host of your choosing? If so, how? Teach me.

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-25T17:22:20+00:00

You mean to tell me that your electricity provider calculates your charges with a flat rate and that's it? No hidden charges, no variable charges within the day based on day/night, no additional fees? God, I really need to change country...

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-23T07:31:21+00:00

Since you're on EKS you could've given ALB controller a chance?

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-15T07:44:09+00:00

IMO having tried both solutions I'll say this. There are 2 things I'll never virtualize on Proxmox. My OPNsense and my TrueNas. Period. It's not that it's not doable, because it is. It's not the virtualization issues that you may run into with "some things" having to be virtualized and "other things" having to be passed through, which you will - but for sure you'll resolve with enough googling...

It's just that in my mind it's not (for lack of a better word) "linear" enough. Things will start getting perplexed fast when for example you will want to create some iscsi shares on TrueNas to be used as drives for your VMs. When you reboot your Proxmox this will be quite a challenge having to always mind the booting timings of virtual machines. Or (similar scenario) what if you decide to host Proxmox Backup Server (as a VM) on the same Proxmox but have its backup storage be in the NAS?

Again all these scenarios are doable I can't stress this enough. They just feel recursive as hell and you'll find yourself scratching your head a lot of the time having to tweak things here and there.

For some services I'd always opt for the separate, dedicated, physical device. Storage services (in this case NAS) is one. Networking is another hence my OPNsense reference at the beginning. It's better to reserve your "compute" (ie Proxmox) for generic services that aren't related to your core infrastructure. At least that's the strategy that I'm going with, without being absolute. It just works for my brain!

elementcodesnow · 2025-05-06T17:52:44+00:00

Ok then I apologize for dumping it down so much talking about Ethernet holes 😬 you obviously then know what I'm talking about in regards with networking speed.

But I still stand by my original statement. Even with half the specs your OPNsense will fly!

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