I don’t know what I did wrong, but now it works with losetup.
So that would be solved.

Even if they are perfectly good

Could that perhaps be an issue of stupid licensing? With, smart licensing, or whatever, if the license is non-transferable, then the hardware is basically an expensive paper weight.
I’ve heard Cisco used to give out Meraki devices for free on some events, because without a license they were totally useless. Until someone figured out how to run OpenWRT on them.

Maybe a solution similar to this could work: https://github.com/nfcgate/nfcgate/blob/v2/doc/mode/Relay.md

Have the card at home sitting on a reader connected to your homelab, add NFC module to PinePhone and simply relay the traffic over network.

Yeah, I already tried losetup unsuccessfully, but thanks anyway.

You don’t need OR in a list.
ra[cp]ist

Thing 3 spice vnc is built in

Waypipe proxies separate windows, not the whole display. It’s pretty cool. Just looks the same as local programs, but running on a different machine.

I’ve been checking around the used market for DDR4. It seems used ECC DDR4 sticks are now cheaper due to low demand.

Time to make a compromise by buying the cheapest €130 8GB stick.

We have that available, I just use mobile data because I disagree with their ToS.
The ToS is so restrictive that you basically immediately break it after connecting a device. I was told that, of course, they don’t really care.
Except - there is a point stating the provider has the right to access your computer if there is a suspicion of ToS violation. Considering the network here is a student-run organization, that could easily be exploited if you piss off someone.
Maybe I am just paranoid, but no thanks.

Otherwise, from talking with them, most dorms have 1Gbit, some have 2.5Gbit, and all share a 40Gbit link which could apparently do 100Gbit (I think), but it’s capped due to licensing.
They leverage national academic network.
Oh, and they also got a class B subnet back when everyone was sure there’s just way too many IPv4s, so NAT isn’t being used here.

> Live on a dorm
> There’s lots of people
> Cell towers are motherfuckingly overloaded during the day
> 0.09Mbps down, 4.5Mbps up and > 300ms on 4G

Tracking, trying to link people together.

That was where I went “holy hell”. Wearing out ports is something I am constantly quite scared of when plugging things in. Especially things like cables when they want to twist vertically, but the port is horizontal, and, well, it’s a thick cable, so…

Literally. Repairability used to be expected.

Looks like random addict from the street, just in less usual attire.

Don’t worry, the Kent Micronite filter cigarettes helped with cancer thanks to the power of asbestos.

When I tried PulseAudio over network in addition to VNC I just got a really choppy unusable audio.
I just gave up and restored to streaming audio with VLC.

Bunch of popups and sketchy redirections

It’s comments like this that make you figure out that your adblock works.

Problem with plain Wireguard is if you can’t open ports on some devices to get a direct connection. It should be just fine with hub and spoke model, but NAT Traversal of Tailscale makes a huge difference. I can get a direct connection between 2 devices connected to mobile data and behind CG-NAT.
And also the config management if you have too many devices.

Hub and spoke, you just add new devices to Wireguard on the main device, and the new peer. Full mesh, oof.

But as far as configuring Wireguard goes, that’s pretty simple. And then there’s the weird stuff with MTU and fragmentation… but that’s not something Wireguard-specific.

And even if you don’t care, if you have an old machine booting from a HDD, the process at least isn’t so boring.

Yeah, just reminded me of this.