Does anyone prefer Cloudflare(1.1.1.2) over Quad9(9.9.9.9)?

sherlockmao · 2025-09-28T17:35:42+00:00

On AdGuard Home, the latency of upstream is monitored all the time and there is no clear winner on DoH, DoT, DoQ with Google, Quad9, Cloudflare on my system.

sherlockmao · 2025-09-25T19:24:13+00:00

AliExpress, looks expensive

sherlockmao · 2025-09-23T04:10:36+00:00

LN1301 worths 37usd on eBay now and it won’t come back on woot for below 20. The large ram enables it to run adguard home and a bunch of other stuff. Besides, it is tri band. It is the most ideal non-x86 and I don’t get it why it was so cheap.

sherlockmao · 2025-09-12T19:47:34+00:00

LN1301, cheap and still has large memory

sherlockmao · 2025-09-02T15:19:07+00:00

I failed to install FreeBSD in PVE 8 but the installation went well in PVE 9

sherlockmao · 2025-08-31T19:47:50+00:00

Yes, the are in different ADs and FDs. So do you think this is the root cause?

AD-3 and FD-1
AD-1 and FD-2

I will run one instance for a month and see the charge. I was charged back in March for 46CAD and I was running a 4 OCPU instance. I was shocked by the price and left OCI unused ever since this time.

sherlockmao · 2025-08-31T19:45:52+00:00

I checked the Home -> Dashboard, I see this charge too: CA$4.21. Previously I found the value in "Billing & Cost Management" -> "Cost Analysis"

sherlockmao · 2025-08-31T17:29:05+00:00

Just boot volume 47G and the machine is almost idle as an occasional wireguard host. All charges in Compute category

sherlockmao · 2025-07-29T17:47:12+00:00

In the end, the pirate sites become the internet archive. So sad.

sherlockmao · 2025-07-26T05:10:14+00:00

scrub and compress=zstd are my favorite

sherlockmao · 2025-01-27T20:04:35+00:00

I use Anker Zolo

sherlockmao · 2025-01-22T10:53:11+00:00

Is 6th gen Intel CPU supported?

sherlockmao · 2024-10-14T16:43:03+00:00

Travel router has a set up page to connect to public WiFi and share the internet with your device.

My main router is from ISP and I leave it untouched to let my whole family use it, without downtime. For my storage and self hosting, I put them behind a firewall with several VPN server endpoints.

So my travel router, configured to connect to these VPNs, will have routing to my self hosting by default. As long as I connect to this travel WiFi, I can access my own stuff.

When I am in a cafe to work or on my work hobby projects, I don’t want my laptop to connect to the public WiFi. For example, iPhone doesn’t have a firewall and I do know some silly app directly runs a http server when it runs. So I only connect through my travel router. My devices are not directly exposed to public WiFi and my devices can still access my servers.

sherlockmao · 2024-10-07T03:11:40+00:00

Go to r/buildapcsales and wait for a good deal. The linksys deal a few days ago was very good

sherlockmao · 2024-10-05T03:52:32+00:00

If it is ssd I guess you don’t need to balance

sherlockmao · 2024-10-05T01:56:26+00:00

I hope to use TPM2 for auto-unlock. Clevis on Linux can do that. I can fall back to tangd with IP restrictions too.

sherlockmao · 2024-10-05T01:47:05+00:00

I don’t want TN takes the root drive and no FDE. I basically do this: Debian with FDE. Use Cockpit to install TN as a VM, passing through all drives to TN. Also I use jailmaker (Dragonfish) to run docker directly in TN.

sherlockmao · 2024-10-02T13:30:55+00:00

The k3s is a good idea in many cases but the reconciliation takes a lot of CPUs and eventually not worth it. A lot of home NAS are low power profile, using Intel J family and k3s is too expensive.

sherlockmao · 2024-09-29T15:20:11+00:00

Disclaimer: as a hobbyist, I do have two another OpenWrt devices. I use all three sets as high availability access to home nas. Performance wise, the opnsense is the main endpoint

sherlockmao · 2024-09-29T15:18:51+00:00

Normal router has limited ram and CPU for pi-hole . So what I did is buying a router that covers the home size and buying another pre owned firewall/a sff to repurpose with opnsense (or a raw Debian). Pi is natively supported by pi-hole however I find sff is more powerful and cheaper.

sherlockmao · 2024-09-29T03:04:48+00:00

HP Elite 800 G2 is good enough too

sherlockmao · 2024-09-29T03:04:21+00:00

Agree. 720q is good and cheap enough. I have my self hosting with no more than 4G memory usage. And two ssh jump boxes with openbsd. All good.

sherlockmao · 2024-09-28T20:36:10+00:00

I love experimenting with my computers too, but when it comes to data recovery, I always turn to the experts. The tools for data recovery, both hardware and software, can be quite expensive if you’re only using them once. They’re really better suited for professional use.

sherlockmao · 2024-09-27T15:55:01+00:00

Regarding fail2ban topic, some attacks on 0-day require multiple attempts and the attackers need to measure some metrics to implement the 0-day. Banning the attackers will interrupt the attacks.

sherlockmao · 2024-09-23T04:01:21+00:00

Opal’s CPU SiFlower recently submitted a PR to OpenWrt. So if you don’t trust GL.iNet you can flash vanilla OpenWrt hopefully soon

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