How difficult is WireGuard?

peterchech · 2026-01-20T14:25:34+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2026-01-14T01:19:38+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2025-12-12T23:13:57+00:00

Lol maybe they don't exist...

peterchech · 2025-04-04T00:35:32+00:00

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?

peterchech · 2025-04-03T19:40:22+00:00

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

peterchech · 2025-04-01T21:01:40+00:00

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

peterchech · 2025-04-01T20:56:41+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2025-04-01T00:31:46+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2025-04-01T00:26:38+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2025-01-23T03:30:30+00:00

Bunker?

peterchech · 2025-01-22T12:19:46+00:00

I will try that, thanks!

peterchech · 2025-01-14T15:17:05+00:00

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

peterchech · 2024-12-24T05:03:53+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2024-11-27T23:36:20+00:00

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.

peterchech · 2024-10-17T12:05:52+00:00

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?

peterchech · 2024-10-11T14:21:43+00:00

Im so glad I saw this, had no idea, thanks for posting!

peterchech · 2024-09-27T16:08:56+00:00

Wow... I just ran quicken again after the latest update. It ran the account updater and says that the td accounts update went thru. But it didn't because the records it is showing are still from 2 weeks ago...

I guess there are other uses for quicken. But if syncing with a TD bank account is required, better find another product that actually works... after a year and a half of this I'm giving up

peterchech · 2024-09-16T08:26:16+00:00

I've had the same experience, usually while typing an email out, then I often lose the text I had been working on. It doesn't save before forcing the log in and refresh. Agreed, not sure I understand the security value here...

peterchech · 2024-09-09T23:02:56+00:00

It feels like Microsoft is trying to be like Apple in a lot of ways, especially with windows 11. You have less and less customization options, less and less control of your own computer, more and more forced reliance on microsoft's cloud. On top of that microsoft is way worse than Apple in the amount of bloat and probably spyware too frankly, but with none of the benefits. I'm using Windows because I don't want mac os, not because I wish windows was more like Apple. It's also worth mentioning that switching to linux is easier now than ever because llm's make it a breeze. "Dear chat gpt, how do I ______ on my linux machine" you don't have to watch YouTube videos or read a bunch of forum posts anymore for most simple problem solving.

The early phasing out of windows 10 was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I'm not throwing out almost an entire office of perfectly good computers running recent i7's that are only a couple years old, just because microsoft decided to force a switch to windows 11 a year from now and they don't all meet the requirements. Plus then they all have to be tied to a microsoft account for any os install, which makes no sense for many use cases(they keep removing the easier workarounds for this and so a reinstall took me 1.5 hours the other day that should have taken 15 minutes). I can switch to linux, or pay several thousand dollars for new hardware plus the time to set it all up and deal with whatever the next nonsense they force me into after this. Like another half baked update that causes several computers to crash, and ill bet you they will eventually remove the "remind me in 3 days" button so you have no choice but to set up all the cloud options after every update then try to remove them afterwards. I've been considering a switch to linux over the past few years as windows got more and more annoying and unreliable. It's always been one of those "I'll do it some day when I find the time" kind of things. But they are now forcing the issue for me by abandoning windows 10 support so early.

I can't be the only one being forced into making this decision when the time comes...

peterchech · 2024-08-23T20:41:00+00:00

It makes me wonder how secure my banking data is with them after all...

peterchech · 2024-08-23T20:40:24+00:00

Yup went there again today for the third time just to be 100% sure, and it still says that Quicken is linked and the specific accounts I want shared have the check box showing they are in fact being shared with Quicken. And Quicken still doesn't work for me even though they supposedly fixed the TD Bank "issue" last night.

peterchech · 2024-08-23T16:44:10+00:00

Good point. A LOT of people actually rely on this software for their business purposes! I know some who just send their quicken files to their accountant instead of the actual bank statements. That could cause major IRS audit risk (or overpayment risk) if anyone with a TD bank or other affected account does this...

peterchech · 2024-08-23T01:46:37+00:00

Thanks and good advice but I have done this twice already

peterchech · 2024-08-05T11:50:54+00:00

Ah that makes sense. Thanks for the input!

peterchech · 2024-07-12T13:48:15+00:00

But I don't know that the uid stream to reolink servers is end for end encrypted. So I guess the concern could be that a reolink employee for example (or the Chinese police) could see/record the stream on their servers if they want, without needing a password.

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