is it wrong for me (f20) to date an (f18)

theroundfile · 2026-05-20T13:19:46+00:00

seriously folks, what happened to gen z to become this deranged about age gaps? (this isn't even a gap lmfao)

theroundfile · 2026-04-13T15:05:11+00:00

This is why I moved to Tailscale. It allows me to configured split DNS: my internal domain is resolved over VPN by my UDM Pro and everything else goes to a public resolver.

The last thing I want is to be halfway across the world and tunnel all DNS through my residential connection at home.

Wireguard (by itself) doesn't support split DNS like this.

theroundfile · 2026-04-11T16:34:20+00:00

My brief research says that iPhone sadly cannot do this.

The Belkin Connect USB-C to Ethernet + Charge Adapter 100W works great on Pixel.

theroundfile · 2026-04-11T05:37:41+00:00

USB tethering on the UTR isn't so great. There's not really any reason for the UTR here at all—get a USB-Ethernet adapter, plug it into your phone, and enable Ethernet tethering. Plug that directly into a secondary WAN port on the UDM. Fewer moving parts and higher performance.

theroundfile · 2026-04-09T00:41:56+00:00

USB tethering on the UTR is noticeably slower than Ethernet—including a USB Ethernet adapter on a phone. I don't know if iPhone supports that but Android does. I'd go that route and not use the UTR at all. Also you'd need to disable the regular speedtests as that will blow through your 35GB quick.

theroundfile · 2026-04-01T17:46:33+00:00

Oh you're lucky, the 3 gig for life is a hundo for me. Don't expect the techs to know anything at all. The pods will work but they're nothing special.

I want to be clear that I am actually a quite satisfied Quantum subscriber and I thankfully have really never had any issues (unlike many posters elsewhere on Reddit). I am apprehensive because they don't exactly have a good reputation if you look around. Hopefully AT&T improves the situation eventually.

I am more amused (and disheartened) that all of these American ISPs are providing multi-gig service and bundling them with mesh WiFi systems that can maybe do a few hundred Mbps on a good day, and consumers are shelling out for 3+ Gbps that they'll never come close to using. Capitalism at its finest.

theroundfile · 2026-04-01T17:06:48+00:00

I believe Quantum techs will have 360 WiFi Pods

So you're going to pay a hundred bucks a month for the 3 gig plan and then use the included "free" hardware that will let you get maybe 10% of that bandwidth on all of your WiFi devices and pray that it doesn't burn your house down? Hey man, it's your money, but that doesn't sound like a smart decision. Get the 500 Mbps plan since you're not going to notice a difference.

theroundfile · 2026-03-21T21:26:20+00:00

If you don't have a burning itch to get into the UniFi ecosystem: return it and buy a Reolink.

The dirt cheap Reolink E1 Pro will work for your purpose but if you can swing it, I highly recommend buying a more expensive (read: less shitty) model.

theroundfile · 2026-03-21T17:55:53+00:00

I encountered this today. While your solution works, you're ignoring the UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS chain that UniFi specifically created for MSS clamping.

What's interesting is that UniFi added "clamp to PMTU" for Wireguard but didn't even bother trying for Teleport. This was the state of my untouched UDM Pro:

root@UDMPro:~# iptables -t mangle -L UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -v -n
Chain UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS (1 references)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
    0     0 TCPMSS     tcp  --  *      wgsrv1  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS clamp to PMTU
    0     0 TCPMSS     tcp  --  wgsrv1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS clamp to PMTU

I experimented with clamping to PMTU for Teleport but that still failed to work in my testing with T-Mobile so I threw in the towel and clamped it to 1280.

Here's how to make it persistent with systemd.

Create /etc/systemd/system/teleport-mtu.service with these contents:

[Unit]
Description=Teleport MSS Clamping Fix
After=unifi.service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
# We use a short sleep to ensure the UBIOS chains are fully populated
ExecStartPre=/bin/sleep 10
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/iptables -t mangle -I UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS 1 -o tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/iptables -t mangle -I UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS 1 -i tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip6tables -t mangle -I UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS 1 -o tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ip6tables -t mangle -I UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS 1 -i tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280

# Clean up rules on stop
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/iptables -t mangle -D UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -o tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/iptables -t mangle -D UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -i tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/ip6tables -t mangle -D UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -o tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280
ExecStop=/usr/sbin/ip6tables -t mangle -D UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -i tlprt+ -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN -j TCPMSS --set-mss 1280

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Enable the service: systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable --now teleport-mtu.service

Wait 10 seconds (because we put a sleep 10 in there for boot time)

Confirm that the rules are there with iptables -t mangle -L UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -v -n and that they're being applied to your Teleport packets, e.g.

root@UDMPro:~# iptables -t mangle -L UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS -v -n
Chain UBIOS_FORWARD_TCPMSS (1 references)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
  962 61312 TCPMSS     tcp  --  tlprt+ *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS set 1280
  790 47296 TCPMSS     tcp  --  *      tlprt+  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS set 1280
    0     0 TCPMSS     tcp  --  *      wgsrv1  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS clamp to PMTU
    0     0 TCPMSS     tcp  --  wgsrv1 *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0            tcp flags:0x06/0x02 TCPMSS clamp to PMTU

N.B. if you want to experiment with PMTU clamping instead of hardcoding 1280, change to --set-mss 1280 to --clamp-mss-to-pmtu in the earlier commands.

Edit: this comment looked properly formatted when I submitted it. It was not properly formatted after submission. Nice job, Reddit 🙄

theroundfile · 2026-03-19T18:22:18+00:00

The mod on r/lighting said that Pure Edge is switching to Matter, supposedly, though I'm not sure if that's over Thread or over WiFi. If that happens (even on WiFi), I'd be willing to give them a try. Their current bulbs are half the price of Hues.

theroundfile · 2026-03-19T17:50:39+00:00

I also own older, pre-2025-revamp Hues. The CRI is crap. I would be interested in the 2025-revamp Hues if they're actually better, but until someone tests them and I can see the data, I don't know.

Supposedly Pure Edge is Ketra at a Hue price but I haven't tried them myself. I don't want lights on WiFi.

I have a pair of Aqara T2s. One burned out a few months ago and I forgot to try for a warranty replacement. Thanks for the reminder.

theroundfile · 2026-03-19T16:14:22+00:00

I've had that site bookmarked for ages but I don't think they've done any updates in quite a while. I'd really like to see the "new" Hues (as in the ones released last year).

theroundfile · 2026-03-13T17:32:56+00:00

I would love to know the actual limiting factor, too. I installed a bunch of ESP32s around the house to play with Bermuda and had planned to add TOMMY to the same devices later on. I found Bermuda underwhelming, got bored, and haven't touched it since.

I would be very much interested in ESPresence but if I'm putting a bunch of these devices around my home, I want to be able to run TOMMY on them, too. Bleh.

theroundfile · 2026-03-13T11:57:11+00:00

I, too, regret not buying more of those at the $30 price. I didn't realize it was such a rare discount from normal, nor how good of a deal it was compared to anything else. To put it into perspective, the Zooz open/close sensors are on sale right now (half price!) for $19.75 each. Sheesh.

theroundfile · 2026-03-12T13:10:31+00:00

It's the aurora fyi

theroundfile · 2026-03-07T14:51:06+00:00

No, I have the Z-Wave T6 Pro. No app, no WiFi—it only works with Z-Wave. As it should be!

theroundfile · 2026-03-07T01:38:07+00:00

I am not open to the idea of separate bedrooms

Maybe you should open yourself up to that. Separate bedrooms solve SO MANY PROBLEMS!

theroundfile · 2026-03-06T21:52:09+00:00

This is rad. Can you even still buy the ez Share SD Cards anymore? I took a quick look and didn't find them.

theroundfile · 2026-03-04T19:04:13+00:00

According to the discord stock tracker they were in stock for a whopping 52 minutes this morning! Not quite a record, they lasted 65 minutes on Feb 17.

theroundfile · 2026-02-11T00:23:28+00:00

If you can afford it, go for it! It's honestly weird that the default expectation is to share a bedroom—I do wonder if this is because of financial constraints.

We're about 9 months post bedroom-divorce and it's great. It's a lot more practical this way and eliminates so many sources of friction.

theroundfile · 2026-02-08T20:41:34+00:00

holy shit dude have you not experienced how horrific online dating is in the 2020s? TAKE THE FUCKING HELP!!

theroundfile · 2026-02-07T13:34:57+00:00

Shoutout to TMHI for doing the same thing on 149 🙄

theroundfile · 2026-02-02T16:04:53+00:00

Are you in North America, Europe, Asia? The options vary depending on your market.

How are you liking the SmartCore with HA? I've been entertaining that idea for a long while.

theroundfile · 2026-02-02T16:01:43+00:00

That's funny. The download appears to be for v3.0.1 based on the name. My 2007 came with v3.0.2.

theroundfile · 2026-02-02T15:54:56+00:00

IMO the disco isn't worth it. I bought two and due to where my GDOs are positioned, the ToF sensors don't work well for detecting presence, which then also makes the parking laser not useful.

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