jmanes

jmanes, 8 months ago

This happens over and over again with Windows so I don’t really take any of these articles seriously. People will migrate to either 11 or whatever comes next. All the kicking and screaming in the world won’t be able to stop them. How long are tech folks going to repeat this cycle?

jmanes, 9 months ago

You can use Ecobee’s cameras with HomeKit secure video. Just block the cameras from being able to talk to the internet via firewall first.

jmanes, 9 months ago

Seems like a humble-brag / flex / punching down to me. I don’t buy that they are totally ignorant to what they are saying.

jmanes, 10 months ago

I believe that is the entire point of the piece.

jmanes, 10 months ago

Embarassing. Does anyone in Silicon Valley have original thoughts anymore?

jmanes, 11 months ago

This is a blazingly hot take but you are entirely correct, and people need to hear it. People will scream “FUCK SPEZ” while logging in to 400 different reddit tabs daily and continuing to feed a corrupt (and soon to be) corporate entity.

I’d be more upset if this was something actually important like a government website or something people’s lives depend on, but yeah, it’s not. It’s just entertainment. Folks need to move on.

jmanes, 11 months ago

Good on them for standing up for what’s right on this.

jmanes, 11 months ago

Seems like you’re spewing FUD to me, mostly. I agree Apple is far from perfect, but they literally introduced an e2e methodology for much of iCloud data recently.

Besides, even if they are only doing this out of selfish desire, it’s still a good thing for the consumers in this case.

jmanes, 11 months ago

That’s a reach beyond reaches.

jmanes, 11 months ago

I almost threw my hat in this ring but I must wait on people who use Linux to get ahold of it and review it. Proably an early 2024 buy date for me.

jmanes, 11 months ago

EDIT: my comment got eaten and I don’t want to type it again.

TLDR: I had the FW 11 gen and it was not good with Linux when it came to being a laptop. Sleep was fundamentally broken due to hardware issue.

jmanes, 11 months ago

For a long while last year, I had an iPhone and my fiancé had a Pixel. It did not matter whatsoever in regards to the relationship. We used Telegram (still do).

If phone choice dictates someone’s choice in partner it is probably safe to categorize them as “terminally online.” Stay away from those people.

jmanes, 11 months ago

I used Plex for years, and it is the superior product (if you pay) compared to Open Source alternatives. However, after seeing Plex’s recent incentive pivots and looking for investors I jumped shipped to Jellyfin. The thermometor of enshittification is indicating that Plex is on its way out.

Folks who haven’t looked at alternatives yet, do so now.

jmanes, 1 year ago

I have the same Residental Gateway. Using pfSense+ on my end. The BGW320-500 is fiber capable. I assume you're using fiber? If so you cannot hook it into ONT because the RG is the ONT. In my case I get raw fiber into a PON module that hooks into the RG. Best you can do in this case is set the RG to "passthrough mode" via web UI (192.168.1.254).

If you have a different setup that is not fiber maybe you'll have more luck with a bypass, but I think you will need the RG regardless for auth: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/authbridge.html

jmanes, 11 months ago

There is no double nat. Passthrough mode has worked as expected for me. The one issue I have is that the RG will maintain firewall states, so it limits you to the RG hardware for those states. I have a pretty large home network though, tons of devices, IoT, etc, and it has been stable.

Latency seems decent. I have an AT&T fiber 2gb symmetrical connection and a ping to google from my Netgate pfSense machine is around 10-15ms.