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    What's the best way to optimize windows after a few years when your pc is slowing down

    All the years here on [H] and this is the thread I'm most disappointed in. Not a single person gave the right answer. You should all be ashamed. While I understand that rebuilding is a pain in the ass, with Windows there's only one answer. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCbfMkh940Q
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    Kernel confusion

    Yep. You can have multiple kernels installed. Ubuntu LTS does the same thing if you enable the Hardware Enablement kernel. It gives you a later kernel version than what ships with the LTS. You then get updates for the old kernel and the HWE kernel. You can remove the old kernel though if...
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    pfSense and DNS servers

    I add many of the lists from Developer Dan. https://www.github.developerdan.com/hosts/ I find that between the default list and DD lists I'm covered very well. Recently I did add a few more that is probably a lot of overkill, but my children are getting adventurous on the Internet so I have a...
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    SAP Concur Authenticator App? How to avoid using my phone?

    You haven't been paying attention to the BYOD way the world is going have you? And if the sword you're going to die on is over an app like Aegis having to scan a QR code to give you a 6 digit code then you're in for a rough time ahead I think as remote work continues to pick up steam (for...
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    SAP Concur Authenticator App? How to avoid using my phone?

    You're way of thinking is archaic. You're opening yourself up to way too many security risks. Not wanting an app because it holds an OTP code for work? Really? The only thing worse than that is your desire to use SMS or a second factor. Worst possible 2FA ever. I constantly send emails...
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    Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

    Not a horrible video, but he's not telling the whole truth either. Your profile resets every 7 days which makes it impossible to build a profile on you because the interests you get ads for will change every 7 days.
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    Any Tailscale gurus here on [H]?

    Direct IP over a specific port. On my old pure Wireguard setup it worked perfectly. But on Wireguard it was directly hitting the Plex server IP. So http://plex.ip:port You can set additional IPs in the Plex config. So I set it to the Tailscale IP and the corresponding port but while it...
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    Any Tailscale gurus here on [H]?

    So I got it figured out. The Plex wasn't showing up in my Tailscale services list like Pi-hole or Vaultwarden was. So I correctly assumed there was a firewall issue. I was right. Just gotta figure out exactly what is being blocked because the Plex port was already allowed so this is...
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    Any Tailscale gurus here on [H]?

    So i need some help. Currently I have a working Wireguard VPN into my OPNsense router which works perfectly and I can access my entire network properly when away from the house. I want Tailscale because I want my wife to be able to leave the house without having to enable the VPN (stupid iOS...
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    Time to assemble a new router

    If you're going to do it, do it right. Pay the money for the dual port Intel NIC and be done. You'll be a lot happier you did. That's also a lot of machine for OPNsense as you admitted. It'll be a lot of noise and power (and cost) for not a lot of work.
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    Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome

    Now I'm not coming into this thread saying Google is our god and savior and they should be trusted. They have done plenty of shitty things (let's not talk about FLOC) but the Topics API is not one of them. I can tell some of you don't actually understand how it works and what is actually...
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    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy threatens employees to return to office or "things are probably not going to work out for you"

    Yes, it is their problem but that needs to be taken into consideration. There's no way around that. I fully expect the office building market to crash and burn hard around here as companies start to downsize. I understand. I was simply stating that I find it far better for me and my work to...
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    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy threatens employees to return to office or "things are probably not going to work out for you"

    I'm a tad indifferent to what Amazon is doing because I understand why and I can't disagree in some ways. Now I'll fully admit I didn't read all of the comments on the thread. However, here's my two cents on how I see things here in the DC Metro area. We have quite a few "major" cities around...
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    OK, KODI sucks really really bad

    I use KODI on a RPi4 in the car for the kids when on long car rides. Works great. The house system is Plex on Ubuntu. I don't have it open to the world. Only way to access my Plex from the outside is via VPN.
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    Best Linux Phone?

    Best bet would be find one that that runs Ubuntu Touch. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ Most Linux based phones though are pretty meh in my opinion. As Dopamin3 just posted (literally as I was typing this) GrapheneOS is a good choice if you can overlook the shitty lead dev, who may or may...
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    Are you happy with win 11?

    Drives me insane everyday. I have a Windows 10 system and a Windows 11 system for work. They both suck ass. Just slow and clunky even on fairly high powered laptops. Win 11 is a Dell Precision 5570 with a Core i9. Both are ungodly slow when waking from sleep and reconnecting to my monitors...
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    Password manager

    Bitwarden period. I self host mine and love it. You can't trust anyone but yourself with your passwords.
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    Ranking of Linux Distrubitions from Best to Evil

    Does it really matter anymore? It's almost all based off Arch and Ubuntu nowadays.
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    Privacy, why buy Android over iPhone?

    I'll give my 2 cents. I'm an Android user and Google user. My wife has an iPhone and my 3 kids have iPads. My eldest has an Android phone that is locked down. In all honesty they both suck. Google is Google. You know they scan your pictures and things. You know that data is used to...
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    Ranking of Linux Distrubitions from Best to Evil

    I'll fully acknowledge that some distros probably are borderline pointless. I mean how many Ubuntu LTS based distros do we really need? Most of them don't go above and beyond like Elementary does to actually bring real benefit to the rest of the community. But people still use them and enjoy...
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    Ranking of Linux Distrubitions from Best to Evil

    He really wrong in a lot ways. Most distros have a purpose and for some users it's what they want. For example someone may want an Arch like distro but not deal with Arch itself. That's where a distro like Manjaro comes along. It's a more curated version of Arch for people who don't want the...
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    Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

    MS not go this route? The freedom fighters said this was where MS was headed years ago. We said it would be a slow burn and eventually happen. Nobody wanted to listen. Nobody believed us. We've seen this before too with software subscriptions. We said software subscriptions were coming...
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    Can anything be done about this iPhone bullshit?

    Wait...the iPhone keyboard really doesn't learn your habits? What is this 2010? My GBoard has been learning my typing habits forever. The prediction element of my GBoard now is insane. I can literally swipe to finish whole sentences at times with it. Not to mention it doesn't do things like...
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    This is why I went Protectli 4-port for my OPNsense build. IOT is on it's own network, my other self-hosted stuff is on it's own network, and then there's main LAN. OPNsense can integrate with Pi-hole directly. https://pi-hole.net/blog/2021/09/30/pi-hole-and-opnsense/#page-content That blog...
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    Yes! And damn that's a slick one. If/When I need to replace mine (Protectli 4 port Intel Atom) I'll look at something like that because for that price it's a steal.
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    Yeah. While OPNsense is fairly lightweight I don't think I'd put it on that box with everything else you have going.
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    Even with that I think it'll be fine with the Pi-Hole. Pi-hole with DNS/DHCP is really lightweight.
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    That core i3 is more than up to the effort. My main pi-hole is actually on a old Dell Latitude E7270. WAY overkill. It's honestly hardly touched. I'm migrating that system to an RPi4 as soon as I can get my hands on another one.
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    Mesh Wifi with good parental controls: porn blacklisting

    The way I got around that on my Google WiFi was use Pi-hole for DHCP. That way it gives out the DNS to devices and then on my OPNsense firewall I block any DNS request not coming from Pi-hole. Although before I had the OPNsense, the Google WiFi doled out my Pi-hole DNS (I have 2 of them so...
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    NTFS HD in a Linux system?

    ^^^ This. The kernel has it's own driver now for NTFS. Previously you needed ntfs-3g to be installed. However, as Algrim said it's probably read-only so you need to modify fstab to allow read/write access.
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    Linux kernel NetFilter flaw gives attackers root privileges

    Bingo. You'd need an exploit to get to leverage this exploit. So it's really not that big a deal as long as it gets patched. However, that's the issue so many admins are inept and don't ever bother patching shit.
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    YogaDNS now supports DNS-over-QUIC and soon DoH3!

    While this is true, during my travels, I've run into very few places that stop me from connecting back to my home network via my VPN. The places that do block me I don't bother connecting to because well if they're blocking VPNs you can't trust them. Also when it comes to DNS queries you...
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    Need help - OPNsense port forwarding

    No idea why you didn't get the email. I have port forwarding on my opnsense and it was never a hassle. I forward the port for wireguard and for HTTP/HTTPS when I open those up on the WAN to renew my LetsEncrypt cert for Bitwarden. The attached pictures are my settings for forwarding to...
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    Need help - OPNsense port forwarding

    What are you trying to forward?
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    YogaDNS now supports DNS-over-QUIC and soon DoH3!

    So much this ^^^^ Pi-hole with Unbound means you're basically your own DNS resolver and Unbound uses DNSSEC to get new data from the root DNS servers. Self-hosted, filtered, signature verified DNS. Can't beat it.
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    Anybody use Wireguard VPN?

    So much this! ^^^ I use it every day and have been since before it was even mainlined in the kernel. It's how I access my home network when away from the house and like BlueLineSwinger the biggest piece is because of Pi-hole. I also recently moved work from OpenVPN to Wireguard. So much...
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    Other than no GUI, how does Linux Server differ from Linux desktop?

    This ^^^ It's minor differences in the server world overall. The bigger difference is generally the security model you want if you care about that. Think SELinux vs AppArmor. I run 3 headless servers in my house. All are on Ubuntu Server LTS with no GUI. The only one that I added a GUI to...
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    Linux software, steps to migrate Windows from big drive to small drive?

    Why do you have to use Linux? Last I checked the built-in Windows disk management tool can resize a disk for you...
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    LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare

    Stuff like that is what scares me about keeping my password vault in someone else's environment. As Eulogy said users should leave LastPass. Not out of spite though. Out of the fact that LastPass has not been fully honest with their customers. The "vault" was always claimed to have been...
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    LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare

    I don't disagree but the people who will have weak master passwords and no 2FA are the same people who will be doing such a thing.
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