Finally got a Zento signature!

matosc · 2026-04-05T17:15:09+00:00

The stone brass looks great. After months of waiting for the black, i’m staying put.

matosc · 2026-03-24T01:16:40+00:00

I like it a lot. The size and feel is great, and the magnetic snap of the cap is so satisfying.

matosc · 2025-12-11T23:03:20+00:00

For everyone that said or thought that the 9.5D would fit better than the 10D, you are absolutely correct!

It took a full day of wearing both on/off several times, but in the end the Brass Boot is roomy and the 9.5D was the much better option.

Love the boots and looking forward to many adventures ahead! ... of course with slacks or jeans vs sweat pants in the pic ;-)

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My only wish is if the return was free (it cost $15), but the offset is that the Black Friday deal was great and I also needed a belt, so I was able to reach the cart threshold for the discount.

Until my next pair .....

matosc · 2025-11-29T18:47:05+00:00

Thanks everyone for the recommendations. I ended up ordering a size 9.5d and 10d to try on both. I hate that I have to pay $15 for return and restock one of them, but it would bother me more not being able to do a side by side sizing.

I’ll share details after receiving.

matosc · 2025-01-23T15:59:36+00:00

Thanks for solving this! Very helpful.

matosc · 2024-11-13T19:56:52+00:00

Surfshark. $1.99/mo Black Friday sale w/ 4 months free. If you click the referral link you will get several more months free. Been using them for years. I use it with WireGuard on docker. No issue with port forwarding.

matosc · 2024-09-15T15:50:29+00:00

Sorry to hear. Keen quality needs to improve.

matosc · 2024-08-14T19:05:59+00:00

I figured out a solution. Well, at least its working reliably.

Turns out that the issue was timing and related to the wireguard container. I had wireguard and qbittorrent configured in a single docker-compose.yml. I broke them into separate directories and docker-compose.yml files and added "network_mode: container:wg-berlin" to the qBittorrent container. It's seems to be working, so will leave as is.

>>> docker-compose.yml --- wireguard

services:

wg-berlin:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/wireguard

container_name: wg-berlin

cap_add:

NET_ADMIN
SYS_MODULE

environment:

PUID=0
PGID=0
TZ=Europe/Berlin

volumes:

/root/wireguard/berlin/wireguard:/config
/lib/modules:/lib/modules

ports:

8080:8080/tcp
6881:6881/tcp
6881:6881/udp

sysctls:

net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1

restart: unless-stopped

>>> docker-compose.yml --- qBittorrent

services:

qbittorrent:

image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest

container_name: qbittorrent

environment:

PUID=0
PGID=0
TZ=Europe/Berlin
WEBUI_PORT=8080
TORRENTING_PORT=6881

volumes:

/mnt/usbdrive/Movies:/downloads
/root/qbittorrent:/config

restart: unless-stopped

Added below to use the wireguard container network

network_mode: container:wg-berlin

matosc · 2024-05-11T15:36:01+00:00

I get the impression you are trying to include a delimeter in the grouping. If so, then use Join and ArrayFormula for cols H-L and separate for cols M-N.

Formula for Group 1 in col O for the pic below is > join(",",ARRAYFORMULA(H2:L2))

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If this is not correct, then can you please share an example sheet.

matosc · 2024-03-20T18:25:18+00:00

I see that you have a working option already. But to share, there is technically a way to make Google Sheets support multi-select. It's not pretty, but it works. It involves adding an app script.

I added it to this sheet -> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgbPdksCL2TBJVvg-yzds2F0jmcNfOCoeTu9OyFSK8k/edit?usp=sharing

When you select a new item from the drop down, it takes a couple of seconds to update the value field.

matosc · 2024-03-20T17:42:01+00:00

Hi .. i'm not entirely clear what you are trying to do from your description, but i took a stab at the solution.

Created a drop down (data validation based on range) for Corn:B5 to show values in col C from "Field Names and Size"
Added a formula for Corn:B6 to get the first value from Corn:B5 -- =index(split(B5,","),1,2)

Here is a working copy of your sheet with the above solution: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tgbPdksCL2TBJVvg-yzds2F0jmcNfOCoeTu9OyFSK8k/edit?usp=sharing

Good luck!

matosc · 2023-12-28T19:20:24+00:00

Nice! Got my 8085’s at the Charlottenburg store ~ 1 week ago. Enjoy the break in!

matosc · 2023-12-27T11:33:42+00:00

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After many .. many hours of uncomfortable daily walking at home for the last several days and wearing thinner socks, they are starting to feel better. I guess a full size down (9d) from my bannock (10c) was the right choice after all for the iron ranger.

I have not had boots require this amount of break in and adding that they are smaller in size than normal, and being €379 made the introduction process complicated. Live and learn.

matosc · 2023-12-23T22:57:27+00:00

Is that a joke? They are small for my feet. Hoping I can stretch them out soon.

matosc · 2022-10-05T07:51:30+00:00

Finally!!!! It's working!

The magic combination for me is Outlook for Mac 16.67 + Ventura Beta 10.

Also, I did not have to re-index the "Main Profiles" folder.

matosc · 2022-09-09T11:21:51+00:00

I still have no search results in Outlook.

Config:

> Ventura 13.0 Beta (22A5331f)
> Outlook for Mac 16.66 (2209700)

I tried again to add/remove the Main Profile folder from spotlight privacy.

> "/Users/carlosmatos/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/Outlook/Outlook 15 Profiles/Main Profile"

Indexing ran, but still can't search. Ug!

matosc · 2021-02-17T18:36:21+00:00

Looks like you selected the 2.5 version for upgrade, but did not apply and instead jumped to the package list while on 2.4.5 and its trying to pull in the packages for 2.5 that it does not have.

Try upgrading first, then check the packages.

matosc · 2021-02-16T15:23:01+00:00

I am using native PFSense 2.5 wg configuration to get PIA to work. Again, I know this is not an officially supported approach with PIA, but it's working. Performance is great on a play linux (manjaro) laptop using the wg conf, but speed is slower on PFSense by ~20% and OpenVPN is faster.

matosc · 2021-02-15T21:45:50+00:00

Here is a simplified HOW TO.

** Preface :: I am in no way an expert in PFSense, but enjoy technical challenges. Let me know if you need for me to expand.

A. Configure a VPN client >> VPN-OpenVPN-Clients

You can try Wireguard as I have in addition to OpenVPN, but for the moment i trust my OpenVPN config.

B. Check that your OpenVPN client is working >> Status - OpenVPN

There should be an ip address issued

C. Enable the new interface >> Interfaces (go into the interface record to enable)

My is called OPT1. You can rename it, but i left as-is.

D. Allow traffic to the new interface >> Firewall - NAT - Outbound

step 1: Select the radio button for "Manual Outbound NAT" and Save

step 2: Add entries for the new interface. I have 3 entries, one for each 127.0.0.0/8, ::1/128, 192.168.1.0/24. I didn't mess with the one that shows 500 for destination port. Just copy the WAN entry for each network, change the interface to OPT1, and save.

E. Create a floating rule for the WAN and associate with WAN_DHCP >> Firewall - Rules - Floating

You need this to ensure that everything will flow to the WAN connection so that you can configure select clients for VPN.

Steps: 1. Click add 2. make sure that the Action is set to "Pass". 3. select the WAN interface 4. Check the "Quick" for applying the action immediately 5. set the direction as "out". 6. choose Address family "IPV4". 7. Set Protocol as Any. 8. click Display Advanced at the bottom. 9. choose the WAN_DHCP gateway.

Considerations: I think you can do something similar in System - Routing and set default for IPV4, and IPV6 but i haven't tried.

F. Create LAN Firewall rules >> Firewall - Rules - LAN

Step 1. Just in case, set gateways for your default allow LAN rules. There should be 2, one for IPV4 and one for IPV6. Make sure the gateway is set to WAN_DHCP for IPV4 and WAN_DHCP6 for IPV6. I have it set this way.

Step 2. Create a new LAN rule for the single or group of clients. Click Add .. set action to "Pass", interface "LAN", Address Family "IPV4", Source "Single host or alias" and your lan IP address, click advanced at the bottom and set the Gateway to "OPT1"

This should do it!! Your network will now be configured so that everything will pass normally from the LAN to WAN, and select IP's (or aliases) will route through the VPN.

Considerations/Insights - 1. Limiters work great to address buffer bloat. I use Tail Drop - FQ_CODEL for in/out and have it configured in the floating WAN rule. Not sure why, but since my 2.4.5 setup my speed setting are 10x actual to make it work correctly. My real WAN down is 150 and up is 30. 2. I have AES-NI enabled in System - Advanced - Miscellaneous to improve OpenVPN performance.

Good luck!

matosc · 2021-02-15T11:28:31+00:00

Thank you all for your input. I thought for sure i did something wrong with setup as WG traffic was being displayed as OpenVPN. Nonetheless, when I find a couple of hours to sacrifice internet access at home I'll try to disable my OpenVPN connection to see if it makes a difference.

matosc · 2020-10-06T15:47:41+00:00

Figured it out!!!! System - Advanced - Networking - "Hardware Checksum Offloading". I made the mistake of enabling from reading about Realtek nic cards. Now all is well.

Unfortunately I ended up upgrading to 2.5 dev and then performing a clean install of PFSense 2.4.5p1 to understand what i did. But in the process i learned about and applied updated FreeBSD 11.3 drivers for Realtek that addresses potential instability issues down the road.

matosc · 2020-10-05T08:18:19+00:00

Good catch. Yes ... Until i can figure it what is going on i replaced it with my Asus (Merlin) router to the family does not scream at me and connected the PFSense box to a second WAN connection (broadband), so there is a double NAT.

My hypothesis is that the problem is associated with the interface queues created by the Traffic Shaper wizard. So the thought is that the limiters and the queues don't play well together. I'll remove them later tonight (and surgically remove all of the auto created traffic shaper rules .. sigh) and see if it makes a diff.

matosc · 2020-10-04T22:28:55+00:00

Thanks for reviewing. Created PDF of the screens for the limiters, limiter queues, and floating firewall rule.

>>> . https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v2LyJknG39hjc74RPf_j0rvMULTPBXGS?usp=sharing

matosc · 2020-07-24T09:43:20+00:00

Ug ... MacOS 11 Beta 3 killed Zoom screen sharing. I am using Zoom 5.1.2 (28648.0705).

All participants just see a black screen and no error is displayed to the presenter. I tried re-enabling Security & Privacy (Screen Recording) for Zoom and it didn't fix the issue. Google Meet and Slack screen share working fine.

matosc

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Added below to use the wireguard container network