I use adguard home in conjunction with NextDNS.

I find adguard a little better in the UI department. Have it in a docker container so it’s a set and forget.

Yeah there’s no foolproof way to do a general upgrade. Wiping is the easiest way to bypass the tpm requirement.

If you absolutely must use windows

Download the Pro ISO from windows.

Use MicroWin to create an iso without tpm requirements and with offline installation

Use MAS and use only the Enterprise edition. You might need to upgrade to Professional first.

Then use WindowsDebloater to tailor it to your liking.

Sony already did that with the PlayStation didn’t they?

RouterOS has WG built in as well as ZeroTier. RouterOS has become quite powerful lately, but make sure you have at least an ARM/ARM64 CPU for it.

All of my remote routers are running RouterOS without anything on top of it. RouterOS is powerful enough for anything I throw on it. But I am using much beefier routers, I have 2 x 5009 and a HAP AX3 which have plenty of flash and ram ro run the additional packages I need.

As for normal computers, I have it on a UPS and I backup core files to off-site areas. Additionally, I buy SSDs that have a little bit of powerloss protection.

I’ve never had issues with mini PCs but I’ve had issues with PIs. I’ve since switched to high endurance SD cards for my Pis and they’ve been rock solid. One’s actually semi exposed to the elements for about a year now without a hiccup.

With RouterOS you can still use DoH with either a self hosted list or a selected ad list. If you want to selfhost a DNS server I’d just host a Adguard Home instance on a VPS for all of your devices.

I also have 2 VPN system for my remote management on 2 separate systems. I learned that the hard way when one of my clients is 8 timezones away.

My ISP blocks all outgoing ports. Maybe I’m not trying hard enough but anything I try port forwarding ends up getting blocked.

Minecraft and port 80 are the 2 I’ve tried and they’ve been unresponsive

A lot are moving through software defined networking which runs at RAM speeds.

But typically responsiveness is quite important in a virtualized environment.

InfiniBand could run theoretically at 2400gbps which is 300GB/s.

I’m using the rb5009 but im using RouterOS not openwrt. Any reason why you’d want to do that?

I personally think if you’re buying a purpose built hardware and then putting your own software on it, you should move to a mini computer with OpnSense.

I’m switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

No with the latest ISO from windows 24H2 I believe

You can still skip it with MicroWin and also Rufus. I’ve tested it just recently.

Once again people blaming software people for hardware problems!

Strangely enough I’ve had the opposite.

My pcie 4.0x4 drive was giving me about 200MB/s on windows and when I plugged it into a Linux machine, full drive speed.

Not flashdrive cheap, but I just use cheap 256gb sata M.2 drives and a tool less enclosure.

Runs at sata speeds and are cheap. Plus the enclosure supports NVMe so I could run around with a 8TB stick.

Don’t password managers verify the domain name before offering credentials?

Does that mean he doesn’t use a password manager?

Edit: RIP, now that’s a proper phishing. I understand where he’s coming from

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Enterprise NVMe drives have some active cooling, but it’s mostly due to high density

I mean signal is used for non-secret non-sensitive communications.

It’s like hey we have a formation here at this time.

Hey we have inventories here.

It’s good enough for basic stuff. No one will be using signal for anything higher than unclassified.

Also phones are often not issued to soldiers so I doubt most are going to install a military related/developed app onto it.

I found the stupid piece of malware that leaked my info.

TrojanDownloader:MSIL/FormBook.D!MTB

Installed alongside a pirated photo editing software back in 2021