Wireguard doesn’t necessarily need to have those limitations, but it will depend in part how your VPN profile is set up.

If you configured your wireguard profile to always route all traffic over the VPN then yeah, you won’t be able to access local networks. And maybe that’s what you want, in which case fine :)

But you can also set the profile to only route traffic that is destined for an address on the target network (I.e your home network) and the rest will route as normal.

This second type of routing only works properly however when there are no address conflicts between the network you are on (i.e. someone else’s WiFi) and your home network.

For this reason if you want to do this it’s best to avoid on your own home network the common ranges almost everyone uses as default, i.e. 192.168.0.* and 10.0.0.*

I reconfigured my home network to 192.168.22.* for that reason. Now I never hit conflicts and VPN can stay on all the time but only traversed when needed :)

Random thought: I’d love to analyse a bunch of anime and get a count of how often schools are shown as being on a hill or high ground.

I get the feeling from my memory like 90% of the time when a school commute is shown it’s always on a hill with the students arduously cycling or pushing their bikes in the morning, and then happily freewheeling all the way home.

I’d love to know:

A) is my memory actually correct

B) if my memory is correct, is this simply a media trope (as in, a visual metaphor for the morning journey being unpleasant while the time after school is freeing and relished) or are Japanese schools actually on hills a lot of the time.

I just exported my MAL list, and I suggest others do that too, as a backup. (View your list, there is an export button at the left side)

I don’t exactly know what this news means and I dont intend to stop using MAL immediately, but if this is a signal for the beginning of the end for MAL then I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove the export ability at some point, to try and stop people from leaving.

https://anilist.co/

You can export your list from MAL and import it there.

I personally literally just now did that - so I can’t actually give a review yet of how decent anilist is or isn’t, but I have friends who use it.

I won’t stop using MAL right away but I wanted to get my bases covered.

Rena would definitely play the hell out of that

Personally, I don’t feel that analogy is a fair comparison.

Begging a dev for new features for free would definitely be entitlement, because it’s demanding more, but what OP is upset about is reduction in the service they already had.

I don’t think any free tier user of any service could have any right to be upset if new features were added only for paying customers, but changing the free tier level is different.

In my opinion, even if you aren’t paying for it, the free tier is a service level like any other. People make decisions about whether or not to use a service based on if the free tier covers their needs or not. Companies will absolutely try to upsell you to a higher tier and that’s cool, that’s business after all, but they shouldn’t mess around with what they already offered you.

When companies offer a really great free tier but then suddenly reduce what is on it, then in my opinion that’s a baiting strategy. They used a compelling offering to intentionally draw in a huge userbase (from which they benefit) and build up the popularity and market share of the service, and then chopped it to force users - who at this point may be embedded and find it difficult to switch - to pay.

So yeah, it doesn’t matter in my opinion that the tier is free. It’s still a change in what you were promised after the fact, and that’s not cool regardless of whether there is money involved or not.

Absolutely, differing tastes exist. Just wanted to share an alternative perspective for anyone wondering whether nichijou is worth a try :)

Nichijou has a pretty safe spot in my top 10. It very much depends what your sense of humour is like.

It’s funny though, because as humans we also consider a huge number of factors when someone approaches us and says “hi” - but we are so speedy about being context aware we don’t even notice how much we ‘overthink’

In a fraction of a second we are thinking “Who is this person? Where do I know them from? Is this a personal thing or a professional thing? What does their tone and body language tell me about the interaction? What is their motivation? Are they a threat? Do they want something transactional from me, or is this purely just a pleasantry?”

We’re good at that.

I was totally confused for a moment because I interpreted “strong” to mean that it has “strong bed game” and will send you off to an amazing sleep in no time.

It’s affectionate headbutts!

It’ll make a great tech talk a year from now when the heat’s off.

“That one time I accidentally caused a global IT meltdown”

My biggest problem is security updates.

The “x years of upgrades” model is okay when it’s for an app, where you can just keep using it with the old feature set and no harm is done.

But Unraid isn’t an app, it’s a whole operating system.

With this new licensing model, over time we will see many people sticking with old versions because they dont want to pay to renew - and then what happens when critical security vulnerabilities are found?

The question was already asked on the Unraid forum thread, and the answer from them on whether they would provide security updates for non-latest versions was basically “we don’t know” - due to how much effort they would need to spend to individually fix all those old versions, and the team size it would require.

It’s going to be a nightmare.

Any user who cares about good security practice is effectively going to be forced to pay to renew, because the alternative will be to leave yourself potentially vulnerable.

Yup, my comment mentions the parity disk :)

Good to emphasise that a bit more though.

The clue with Unraid is in the name. The goal was all about having a fileserver with many of the benefits of RAID, but without actually using RAID.

For this purpose, Fuse is a virtual filesystem which brings together files from multiple physical disks into a single view.

Each disk in an Unraid system just uses a normal single-disk filesystem on the disk itself, and Unraid distributes new files to whichever disk has space, yet to the user they are presented as a single volume (you can also see raw disk contents and manually move data between disks if you want to - the fused view and raw views are just different mounts in the filesystem)

This is how Unraid allows for easily adding new drives of any size without a rebuild, but still allows for failure of a single disk by having a parity disk - as long as the parity is at least as large as the biggest data disk.

Unraid have also now added ZFS zpool capability and as a user you have the choice over which sort of array you want - Unraid or ZFS.

Unraid is absolutely not targeted at enterprise where a full RAID makes more sense. It’s targeted at home-lab type users, where the ease of operation and ability to expand over time are selling points.

Been using unraid for a couple of years now also, and really enjoying it.

Previously I was using ESXi and OMV, but I like how complete Unraid feels as a solution in itself.

I like how Unraid has integrated support for spinning up VMs and docker containers, with UI integration for those things.

I also like how Unraid’s fuse filesystem lets me build an array from disks of mismatched capacities, and arbitrarily expand it. I’m running two servers so I can mirror data for backup, and it was much more cost effective that I could keep some of the disks I already had rather than buy all-new.

If this is even half as good as the first season I’ll be happy.

I’m Interested

(Yes, I’ve seen it :D)