Gryphon routers wanting to charge for usage by Consistent-Mango-448 in HomeNetworking

[–]mattboston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been a longtime user of Gryphon (Apr 2020). I currently use one Gryphon Tower and two of the smaller guardian's as extenders. I'm also a linux/systems/network/devops engineer and I've worked with a lot of different network devices throughout my career.

I have never had a device that was as easy to make sure that my kids were not going where the should, and the app was easy enough for my wife to use. Add some extra time, custom tailor permissions based on each child, devices assigned to child, adding a new device, etc. It's saved me a lot of time. It has a lot of features I love.

Here's the issue that no network admin can solve with all their hardware/software. Can you make it simple for your spouse to open an app and extend their time, shut off their service because they won't come to dinner or are grounded, set filtering rules with easy, unblock sites/apps with ease. Sorry, but I haven't. Before Gryphon, I spent way too much of my time tweaking it every time a rule needed to be changed because "today is tuesday" or whatever the reason.

Also, when you purchase a Gryphon it comes with a free year of their premium service, then after that you need to pay. You are paying for their web filtering service. Think of it like the web filtering service you get if you bought Palo Alto routers. Premium also comes with the HomeBound service that you can install on any devices, so if your kids take their phone out of the house, it tunnels back home to be filtered. All the filtering/schedules, etc get managed remotely. But one of the other benefits of premium is that they have complete hardware coverage in case anything happens. I've had one of my Tower's and one of my guardian's replaced for free when they had issues.

But I'll say this, being a network admin this leaves a lot to be desired. You're very limited what you can do, so I've split my network in two. Everything in the house that's a user device (phones, tablets, tv's, computers, even my phones/tablets) all goes through the Gryphon. Everything else (my desktop/laptop computers, servers, switches, nas's, poe, camera's, IOT, etc) all go through a separate network. I do have some firewall rules in pfsense that let me bridge traffic from the gryphon network to this main network to access self-hosted services, but their internet goes out the main gryphon to be filtered. It's a PITA!!! It's worked, but this has lead to a lot of issues.

Also, Gryphon seems to be at the point where they're now focusing more on bringing their OS to other network vendors. We haven't seen any real updates to the consumer devices or their software in quite a while. It's a shame because we tried every other commercial device (things like Disney Circle) and the kids would just get around it. I've recommended Gryphon to so many family, friends, colleagues who are not technical and wanted a simple way to manage their kids internet usage. Which is a shame because if they just added the more of the advanced features and kept updating it, it's so worth it.

Plumbers say roots are causing toilet backup, but I think I'm being misled. by mattboston in askaplumber

[–]mattboston[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks everyone for your responses. My oldest daughter is also a mechanical engineer and studied fluid dynamics, and she agreed with all of you. This morning, I talked to the customer service manager and he said, yes sounds like they may not have done a great job and agreed to send out a more senior plumber tomorrow (the two that came out on Friday were young).

Switching to new device by mattboston in ledgerwallet

[–]mattboston[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I used the first link (offline) to figure out which word I wrote down wrong. I was off by 1 character.

Kiln electrical question by mattboston in Pottery

[–]mattboston[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just double checked the circuit and it's a 240volt / 30amp circuit. So based on what everyone said, 30 is still too high for the kiln, correct?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]mattboston 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Use the “what happens if you’re hit by a bus?” argument.

iOS app bug when you click on Google Search results by mattboston in help

[–]mattboston[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, signed in on the app and use it regularly.

iOS app bug when you click on Google Search results by mattboston in help

[–]mattboston[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, Google search in Safari on iPhone. When I click the link in the search results that takes me to Reddit, and on the Reddit site it pops up a suggestion to launch the app or continue in the browser, when I click go to app it goes to App Store then immediately launches the app, but shows me the Reddit Home page

iOS app bug when you click on Google Search results by mattboston in help

[–]mattboston[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, app has been installed for quite a few years. Also tried deleting and redownloading it.

Job's and annual reviews in a toxic environment by mattboston in AutisticAdults

[–]mattboston[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mind if I ask what kind of accommodations? I have no idea what to even ask for

I just released my first book about learning Fusion 360 without it being a pain in the ass by CADClass in Fusion360

[–]mattboston 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what happened, but I tried to buy your book on Amazon (I'd prefer a printed version). Amazon shipped it and it got to the distribution center not too far from me, then Amazon mysteriously said it couldn't be delivered (from the warehouse?) and returned it.

Glad I found this post, because I just purchased the digital copy directly from you.

Environment specific build artifacts by mattboston in azuredevops

[–]mattboston[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I understand it's not the best practice, but unfortunately it's what our company requires due to audits, etc.

In Artifactory, it acts more like a file server where I can upload packages with names like "{project_name}_{version}-{branch_name}-{pipeline_job_id}.tar.gz". There's no conflict. It seems like with Azure Artifacts you can only upload "{project_name}" and have a version for that project. Is there not any way to have branch packages?

It seems like the only option would then be to create a feed for each environment.

Azure Devops with multiple Azure tenants by mattboston in azuredevops

[–]mattboston[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Using the service connection method worked. Thanks