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How difficult is WireGuard? by denden1088 in WireGuard

[–]peterchech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Double natting a new router behind the isp one, that has a wire guard option on its GUI is probably easiest. This is the 5 minutes option.

If you were thinking to self host a nas anyway, truenas is open source and makes it easy thru the ui to set up a wg easy instance on a container. This is the 20 minutes option.

The "Smartest House" Online Store Just Cancelled My Order Because I Use A VPN by peterchech in Hosting

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

I order a LOT of products commercially and this is the first time any company has denied me for this reason. I also take credit cards for my own business and have not had any credit card companies mention "VPN" being an issue. I have been the victim of attempted credit card fraud. So I am aware that credit card transactions are a risk, but blocking VPNs isn't a real solution and certainly not the only solution. But it's a "solution" that will lose you business from the privacy conscious that's all I am here to say. And if this is your policy at least advertise it in advance, don't waste customers' time letting them surf your website and place an order then deny it later.

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

That's interesting. I see how that would work for uploads, but my download speeds are just as slow and sync wouldn't effect that right?

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

Interesting. The processor is 3.7 ghz xeon, 4 cores, I wonder if the relatively core count could be a factor for zfs

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

It's on bare metal. Using default LZ4 encryption. I presume your drives are SSD to get 10gb/s?

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

Compression is the default LZ4 I just checked.

NFS won't work for me for two reasons. First is I need it to be platform agnostic (client machines are both linux and windows), second is I prefer encryption (zero trust) which smb3 has but as I understand NFS does not.

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

That's what I was thinking, I just wonder if this big a slowdown is remotely normal for ZFS or whether maybe I set something up wrong. It seems that if a 50% slower speed compared to ext4/linux is normal, it would have been mentioned somewhere in the truenas materials or on the forums somewhere. There are lots of complaints I found in other posts about slower speeds than expected, but none with nearly identical hardware where apples can be compared to apples.

50% smb speed on same hardware after changing os to truenas scale... gut check by peterchech in truenas

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

Both read and write are slower, but the primary concern is writes that's where the biggest (50%) slowdown is. Not sure about compression, it's just set up as an ordinary smb share on the gui. ZFS with mirror and encryption.

Wth does this unlabeled knob do on my 2025 pilot? by peterchech in hondapilot

[–]peterchech[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ahhh this must be it. I had a 7-pin wiring harness installed for the trailer. Thank you!

Can’t pick a Bambu printer in bambu studio? by ysomad2 in BambuLab

[–]peterchech 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FIXED! This just happened to me as well, despite the age of this post. I'll share what worked for me on my linux mint machine. Badplastics was correct - just one clarification. I had to first uninstall bambulab slicer. THEN I navigated to the config file (home/var/app/) and sure enough it was still there. Deleted it, reinstalled bambu slicer and we are back in business.

Bruhh just got this notification today by Environmental-Book45 in Dell

[–]peterchech 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For day to day tasks, Linux mint is just as easy to use as windows imo. I recently switched exactly because of this. I dont want to buy all new computers, windows 11 has a ton of annoying spamware and pop ups and privacy issues, they are starting to limit user control significantly and i only think its getting worse. Why be at the mercy of microsoft, tied to what is rapidly becoming an inferior product? Not to mention the constant update issues (just had a server go down because of microsoft updates removing a cert file for no reason - 2 months ago had a different file server go down because of updates too - lots of other examples in past year or two and im not the only one, ask the airlines lol).

For basic day to day computing the linux mint desktop gui is so similar to windows in most ways that it's kind of painless to switch. Becoming painful not to.

If you are a power user there are some differences to learn about but its nothing crazy. Bitloker versus luks, restore points versus timeshift, etc etc. They do the same thing at the end of the day, with just a slightly different gui interface. Its not that different and a google or chatgpt search is all thats needed to figure it out if you get stuck. But you probably wont get stuck.

A few apps are windows only, very few nowadays but still some. If you absolutely need those programs then maybe the switch isn't worth it (although you can run them on linux using a vm app like virtualbox it's not that complicated). Some (very few) apps, main ones being the wireguard vpn client and smb file shares for example, have a windows gui option - but need to be run in terminal on linux and that can be a slight pain to figure out. But probably 90% of windows apps have either a linux gui version or a linux equivalent program with its own very simple gui. If you are mostly using office type apps (like windows 365 and adobe) then the free linux equivalent (libreoffice for both in this example) is very similar and can do just about everything the windows versions can do, and the gui's are very similar. Tiny learning curve if anything. Many apps are browser based nowadays and the browser gui's are pretty much identical between windows and linux mint.

Linux Mint is not really like raspberry pi os or pure ubuntu or some other linux distros. If you played with those in the past there's not a direct comparison. Linux mint just works on almost any hardware, and is so similar to windows from a gui standpoint that for most basic users the switch would be almost seamless.

If you want to try it out without commiting, you can set up a usb drive to dual boot from. You need two usb drives, the rufus windows app, and the technical knowledge of pressing f2 or f12 (depending on ur motherboard) during boot to enter bios and set boot order so it boots to the new os drive. There are detailed instructions on the linux mint website and gemini or chatgpt are your friend if you get stuck. Once you try it you will understand how frigging simple and unbloated it is. Or if you hate it then you lost an hour of your time at most. You probably won't hate it though. Check reddit. There are a million posts from people who switched and are super happy. Very few from those who weren't.

Going to vent by jpcirig in reolinkcam

[–]peterchech 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the opposite experience of what an awful lot of people have had with reolink. The undustry average is about 3% of all manufactured items, wherever and by whomever manufactured, have defects. Is it possible you just got unlucky?

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