Trump didn’t even try to get elected. Total fuck it all pill during his running like he knew he was going to win, then he wins by a huge margin electorally and the popular vote. It was surreal.

Evil me: Ask questions to which there is no solution but ChatGPT will happily give incorrect solutions to and will run itself in circles trying to answer correctly as you feed it error messages.

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Is your friends client config setup for split tunneling?

If the client config installs a default route to the VPN you will get all their traffic.

The server config can refuse to forward traffic to the internet, but then your friends will be effectively on your LAN but otherwise appear to have no internet access.

Its a good idea to restrict which IPs on your LAN they can access, but the client config also needs route only those IPs over the VPN.

https://www.privateproxyguide.com/how-to-set-up-split-tunneling-with-wireguard/

Yeah it makes you stand out as a fingerprint data point. I generally thought it was recommended to not enable since privacy violators won’t respect it anyways.

Password manager. Bitwarden does this. Signal too but that falls into your social media category.

The work profiles are meh (due to employers, not Graphene). My employer restricts what can be installed in the work profile. So I can’t install sandboxed GPS. Therefore, none of my work apps can run.

I’m sure there are ways to make it work (e.g., shelter). Decided to tell them to provide me a work phone instead.

So I’ve only been using nix about a year and only used flakes. I use in two ways.

First, I have my main nix flake. Most everything is controlled from that. It has several outputs from full blown nixos builds per host or some home manager builds for non-nixos systems.

Third-party flakes I use as inputs to my own flake then use the override system to inject them into nixpkgs. Then I just install whatever like normal from nixpkgs. I can either override an existing pkg (neovim nightly replaces regular neovim for me), or you can just add as a new package to nixpkgs by using a different attribute name.

Second way is for projects with their own repo. I’ll add a project flake that has a devshell with direnv so as soon as I enter that directory it sets up a sort of virtual environment just for that project. You can add outputs to it so others can use as a third-party flake.

My main starting point was https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-config for this design.

You really want Thread over Matter

Do you mean over WiFi? Matter and Thread don’t have overlapping functionality. In the OSI model, Matter is like layers 6-7, Thread covers 3-5, and 802.15.4 is 1-2 (MACPHY).

Matter also works over Ethernet and WiFi.

ZigBee is like 3-7 also using 802.15.4.

Z-Wave is also like 3-7 with some sub-GHz MACPHY.

For Matter, low power devices and sleepy devices should use Thread to optimally conserve battery.

Ethernet > WiFi unless wireless is needed for other use cases like cameras, media boxes, dedicated power, etc.

Bluetooth (low energy) last I checked is only supported for commissioning a device. It does use the Matter protocol, and I’ve blinked some lights on test hardware over BLE, but it wasn’t officially supported.

I have no empathy for most politicians or the harm they have done out of greed.

I’m not in favor of a single individual being judge, jury, and executioner.

Our system for dealing with corruption is insufficient and infected by the corrupt.

Other than some Ghandi-level mass nonviolent resistance, one is likely to just end up on the streets (as designed by the corrupt in question), or the way things are going, soon a wall.

It sucks…

SSDs are pretty pricey for video. I use HDDs, mirrored. For some uses I put a SSD caching layer on top to speed up frequent R/W. Using only LVM, no fancy RAID hardware or anything.

https://csa-iot.org/all-solutions/matter/

See if they will implement this? Backed by Apple, Amazon, and Google. HA had support last I checked. They have bridging support also like ZigBee to Matter for Hue bulbs.