Unless you're a hacker, and you like hacking on stuff, then by all means, read through all the warnings and please do consider doing similar to what OP did, it's a lot of fun and you'll learn a lot!
Eh, as a hacker who has wasted time on a lot of dumb stuff I would encourage people to not follow absolutely every obsession you have and think of the opportunity costs of new projects you take on.
As a hacker who never wasted a single minute of my life, yet did a lot of dumb stuff, I'd say your mindset is what's getting in your way, not the amount of dumb stuff you've done :)
Lowtechmagazine is building a solar powered electric oven [0]. This is why they want to build an electric heating element that works on a relatively low voltage.
I think Wireguard is awesome and I use it exclusively.
That said, when traveling - on hotel wifi - for internet to work, TCP port 443 is always open, thus OpenVPN will always work if you run it on that port.
For Wireguard, there isn’t a reliable always-open UDP port. Port 123 or 53 could work sometimes, but it’s not as guaranteed.
For any other application though, Wireguard would be my first choice.
Yep, I really want to dote on wireguard and have contributed a little bit to it in its early years, but I've always found dsvpn to work at any cafe/hotel/hospital/etc. where I roam (except Sydney Airport - fuck their hostile wifi).
The format of the data inside the TCP stream is very simple. Each datagram is preceded with a 16 bit unsigned integer in big endian byte order, specifying the length of the datagram.
Performance would of course suffer but it's not likely that whichever service is blocking UDP is going to be offering high performance.
If you are doing it manually you can include two peers, one over UDP and one over TCP and prioritize traffic flow over the UDP one. Commercial VPN apps tend to handle that with "auto".
If you want to be fancy or you are confident that the UDP blocking service can offer high performance you can include a third peer using udp2raw: <https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw>
The reason why you may want to retain udp-over-tcp is that some sophisticated firewalls may block fake-TCP.
> For Wireguard, there isn’t a reliable always-open UDP port. Port 123 or 53 could work sometimes, but it’s not as guaranteed.
Couldn't you pipe it through something like udp2raw in those few cases? Probably performance would be worse/terrible, but then you say it's on hotel network so those tend to be terrible anyways.
Is this really about the impact of drugs on people or about the impact of how drugs users are vilified and ostracized, the impact of living on the streets?
That's just the end stage, and it can take a long time before you get there. And none of these people were 'vilified' unless they gave direct cause for that.
When I say their drug use was a problem, I mean their drug use was a problem. I've known drug uses whose drug use was not a problem but for the majority it really was and it caused me problems in return. Stealing, lying, fights over nothing, psychotic episodes, inability to even make the most basic appointments causing lots of fall-out. Please, I really don't need to be lectured on this.
It’s always fun to see how people build their home labs but I went exactly the opposite route.
I focused on energy consumption, because of cost and - gasp - wanting to be mindful about it given the current predicament.
Anything that needs to be on 24/7 is on a Pi, and anything that consumes more power is turned off by default (remote poweron possible).
For me at home there is zero need for redundancy and I use a cluster of four tini-mini-micro 1L PCs for my lab work. There are also turned off by default and are also low-power.
That's what I want to do as well, Pis running a vpn and some wake-on-lan scripts for a couple of old boxes (I will probably run SmartOS on those). Anything to share about your setup ? (blogs/gits that you wrote or followed)
I also got some cloud credits from my employer, but a bit paranoïd about putting my data there (although most of it isn't sensitive).
It's funny, I started with rPis for the same reason, but I'm about to replace them. I bought 20 rPi 4Bs for my homelab, and I just couldn't get them to do what I needed. I was looking to run a home k8s cluster and the Pis were just not suited to it at all (don't use sd storage for k8s 'cause it'll burn out the card w/writes, booting off usb was unstable even with powered usb hubs, netboot turned into an enormous pain in the neck).
If you have another machine with a SSD or at least a fast-ish HDD and want to give it another go, you could try running k3s with an external datastore (e.g. postgres).
That's the setup I've been using on 3 x rPi since 2021 and I'm super happy with it as I can host all my own personal projects, some OSS ones (changedetection, n8n, etc), even longhorn for distributed storage and still have capacity left -- and this with just microSDs (to be fair, A1s, but still).
Just today I noticed a Cadillac SUV in a Dutch parking space (multilevel parking garage). The car didn't fit (not even close) and protruded well into the driveway.
'USA-size cars' have absolutely no reason to exist in Europe. Our infrastructure isn't built for them and that's a good thing.
> 'USA-size cars' have absolutely no reason to exist in Europe. Our infrastructure isn't built for them and that's a good thing.
American infrastructure also isn't built to accommodate "USA-sized" cars. A recent car will not fit into a space in an American parking lot, and it makes it a nightmare to pass through toll booths, parking garage ticketing gates, or any other scenario where you're supposed to roll down your window and reach out to something outside the car. Going around corners is problematic too. I now park by looking for a stretch of several empty spaces in a row. I can (just barely) technically fit inside one marked space at my local grocery store, but I can't maneuver into a space if there are cars in the adjacent spaces.
American cars have very recently become much, much, much, much fatter, and they use that extra interior space to... place a bunch of empty space between the seating and the side of the car. As best I can tell, this is a response to crash safety requirements. It is definitely a bad thing.
> American infrastructure also isn't built to accommodate "USA-sized" cars.
I don’t think this is true. Everyone was driving around in the Toyota Tacoma in Hawaii and that was fine. You couldn’t drive the thing in Tokyo. You’d just immediately get stuck at the first corner.
The US is definitely built to facilitate cars, and plus sized cars by extension.
I park in recently striped parking lots with pickup trucks that practically touch both lines. In parking garages these things can extend well into the traffic lane making traversing the garage extremely tight. It's really annoying having to share space with these monstrously sized trucks everywhere.
I am a bit confused... your car sounds miserable to drive, why don't you find a smaller one? The US certainly has a shit market for ultra-compacts, but you can still find (new) sedans or hatchbacks that comfortably fit existing infrastructure.
The Promaster (Fiat Du-whatever) is just as bad as the Sprinter.
The Transit is basically doing a best effort at making the same but not sucking and they go, ok, but just ok.
Like don't get me wrong, they all do the "bod on wheels" thing fine but if you're not some high end airport shuttle service turning your leased fleet over on a rolling 3yr basis so you can "look sharp" they fucking crush you with maintenance and the TCO winds up being shit.
And in more "serious" service they suffer a ton more downtime and cost because the little employee driver oopsies that formerly had a 1/500 conversion ratio into downtime now have like a 1/100 ratio on these lighter vehicle platforms, but the CAFE number goes and what are you gonna do, not buy? So the OEMs don't care.
The American OEMS tried these family of designs in the 70s-90s and went BACK to more traditional designs because they just kinda sucked at the margin.
Ironically the mini versions of these (Transit Connect, Nissan NV200 or whatever they called it) that they started importing around the same time were actually pretty cool because they were filling an otherwise unfilled market niche.
Many people building home storage batteries use a shed a few meters away from their home.