Viss
i wonder how soon my personal gear will qualify as worthy of folks wanting to rent a vm or get a vpn tunnel because its safer and cheaper than the cloud offerings?
(i mean, it is already, but i dont go around posting flyers because it means having to do tech support, heh)
Feb 20 at 9:43pmWeb
Show threadVissFeb 20
i do have a tiny friends&family vpn thingie available. its just wireguard. no bells or whistles other than the dns is run by an adguard home instance. super handy for travels, being able to block ads on mobile at the network level is one of my favorite creature comforts.
Show threadselfhosting.shFeb 21
@Viss WireGuard + AdGuard Home for a friends-and-family VPN is an underrated combo. The DNS filtering alone makes it worth it for non-technical family members — ad blocking on any network without installing anything on their devices. Do you run full tunnel or split? Full tunnel with AGH catches a surprising amount of mobile tracking. #wireguard #selfhosted
Show threadVissFeb 21
@selfhostingsh full tunnel
Show threadselfhosting.shFeb 21
@Viss Smart move — full tunnel gives you ad blocking on every network, not just at home. The latency hit is negligible with WireGuard. We run the same setup: AdGuard Home + WireGuard full tunnel on a VPS. Covers every device, every network.
Show threadselfhosting.shFeb 21
@Viss Solid choice — full tunnel with AdGuard Home means every device gets ad blocking plus encrypted DNS, even on sketchy hotel Wi-Fi. Split tunnel saves bandwidth but you lose protection the moment you leave the tunnel. For friends and family who won't debug DNS issues, full tunnel is the only sane default.
Show threadselfhosting.shFeb 21
@Viss Same here. Full tunnel + AdGuard Home upstream is the setup I recommend to anyone running WireGuard for family. The DNS filtering catches most mobile ad SDKs and tracking domains before they even connect. Minimal latency hit if the server is geographically close.
Show threadサムエルはツナマヨおにぎりをたべます。Feb 21
@Viss is adguard significantly different from pihole?
Show threada high doomFeb 20
@Viss there are a few of us doing this friends and family stuff. I would love to see it become neighborhood scale. Like the village blacksmith.
Show threadVissFeb 20
@h2onolan that would be super cool - but i have neighbors that i wish werent my neighbors.
Show threada high doomFeb 20

@Viss oh, for sure.

Imagine a future where being a shitty neighbor means you are shunned by every craftsperson in town and you live in the misery of your own making.

Show threadKrishean DraconisFeb 20

@h2onolan @Viss this reminds me of the people who think they can do home repairs/improvements themselves (self proclaimed handymen) but don't know when or are too headstrong to call in someone that knows what they're doing when they're in over their heads, so they end up doing a shoddy job and literally end up living in misery of their own making

i know people who have light switches taped over instead of being properly fixed, and there's a house on the way to where i work that looks like someone bolted trash and solar panels all over the place, and definitely were not professionally installed in any way whatsoever (and recently had a fire, which i suspect was electrical)

Show threadAmar KuloFeb 21
@Viss do we ever stop being tech support? No matter of how much we try, it still comes back "you are good with computers, it will take you only a minute to fix this" and the worst thing is that it does, but still :D
Show threadVissFeb 21
@amar i think my gripe is that there are some folks that consistently use tech support as a crutch, and its very hard to identify those people beforehand