I played Balatro for the first time a few weeks ago and thought "I could make a killing if I made the chess version of this". But I don't know how to make games - much less computer games - so no money for me. Just a game to play instead
There are certainly are bigger issues in the world right now, sure, but it isnt about "rights for software", it is about the ability people to talk about what they want (in this case, software)
I am going for public access here, so it wont work. But i think this is how some routers are set up. Like i think asusrouter.net is set to 192.168.0.1, so anyone with the router can go to the same url / domain and itll send them each to their own router. Found that out the other week and thought it very clever.
So i had done this (with Adguard rather than pihole) and i think i was getting caching issues. Whether or not i was, though, i removed it and it looks like my router is handling it all just fine without the rewrite on the local DNS server.
Some folks mentioned "hairpin NAT" - i was reading the wiki on NAT last night but didnt get to hairpin, but that appears to be what is happening.
The conclusion is - my setup had been doing what i want the whole time without any DNS fiddling. I updated the original post with the speedtests.
I guess I should say that I think there were caching issues, but the problem was coming from an iphone and the Bitwarden app (connecting to the self-hosted vaultwarden).
i think this is what I was doing with Adguard and using the re-write rules, but then the client (my phone, for example) would cache the IP address and it would fail when I was out of the house/network.
Or am I misunderstanding what you are saying here?
ok, well that's easy to set up if that is how it just works! i wonder if maybe i should (at least temporarily) self-host some sort of speedtest app on the server and check the speed from my phone while i'm on wifi using the IP, wifi using domain name, and off wifi using domain...
Server is running the password manager for myself and family, and that needs to stay on while gone (there are ways of handling local copies and they sync later, but when ive accidentally had to troubleshoot that it sucks).
Then ive got nextcloud, which while i don't normally need things on there i do enough that it is nice to have.
I asked a very good, thoughtful question yesterday and within 5 minutes got a downvote with no comment or explanation or feedback as to why. Ive got around 3k rep, not while im not a poweruser or whatever i aint new to it.
Glad other people engaged with it productively, but yea was a real "this is what people have been talking about"
"according to Western Officials", i.e. the people who are (formally or informally) at war with Russia and have been isolating North Korea. They are a very biased source
I turned off QoS and immediately am getting 930 on speedtest.net from the desktop browser!
Also, very helpful to know Issue 1 here. I assumed that the router would be the best spot to test since it is farthest upstream (other than the modem). I didn't know it could pass traffic faster than it can decode, but that makes sense that people would have tried to make that the case. The router is still getting ~500 Mbps while the browser is much closer to the full 1000.
that makes sense, and I'm looking now. However, the only thing that has anything other than zero in the 'Real-time rate' on the router is the computer i'm typing this on, which is at ~30KB/s up and down
I've got a coax cable (not fiber) coming into the house, in the USA. My understanding is that there is some amount of shared network with the neighbors.
That is the correct question, and mostly no, I don't have any specific problem.
The biggest motivator for me looking at it is probably just hobby/interest/how-does-this-work.
That said, my partner and I both work from home ~50% and are often pulling files/data that are a couple GB from the work network, and having those go faster would be nice. Probably the limiting factor in those, though, is the upload from the work network and so faster download for us likely wouldn't matter, but I'd like to be able to say "I looked into it, honey."
If you arent an actual journalist who is being personally, specifically hunted then you probably don't need to take the same precautions as one.
And yea, the guide boils down to "none of these things are 100% safe but they are realistic things you can do that can offer more protection than not doing them."
Your skimming of the article missed how they do indeed talk about the shortcomings of every suggestion they have. For example, the article also does indeed talk about how you can turn off gps but your phone will still ping towers revealing your location, and goes on to say that you can put your phone in a faraday bag but that isnt practical for most people but is indeed an option if you want to do it.
I use the parental controls on the router to put the roomba in grounded-child mode.
That said, I'm not actually positive it works... it is able to connect to home assistant, so it definitely has local network connectivity, but I haven't proved to myself that it is actually unable to connect to its remote servers since it isn't really that big of a deal to me.
I played Balatro for the first time a few weeks ago and thought "I could make a killing if I made the chess version of this". But I don't know how to make games - much less computer games - so no money for me. Just a game to play instead