Have you tried adding 239.255.255.250/32 to your outbound subnets variable? This is the multicast address for SSDP which mDNS ultimately relies on if I remember right, I recall having to do this for Plex in the past.

Hey not sure if I’m too late but there are a few places I have run across that I don’t see mentioned:

• https://weworkremotely.com/
• HackerNews Jobs (aggregator: https://hnhiring.com/)

Also, your resume sounds a lot like mine, I have done a wide variety of things over the years. If you want someone to review your resume I am happy to, send me a DM or something. I’m not a developer but I have reviewed a lot of resumes for people and mentored all kinds of engineers, I am a principal level engineer in a related path though.

Hah yeah that was not very clear. What I mean is that google search results have gotten worse over the years and I knew that but since it was a slow change slow I guess I had not really realized the totality of how bad it had gotten until I compared the search results for the same search terms between Google and Kagi.

It’s crazy, what I’m searching for is back in the first couple of links and I don’t have to scroll past “sponsored” results like it should be. I never thought I would pay for a search engine but it is definitely worth it, I’m not sure I could go back to Google.

I recently switched to Kagi and the difference is astounding. I knew it was bad but it’s just crazy, especially on mobile. The ability to personally change a domains ranking in your search results is a game changer too, now my results aren’t polluted with Amazon results as an example.

Please do! I am real curious now, this is definitely something weird haha!

No problem! I actually am still using 8500k still since it was new for what it’s worth, those things are great no complaints.

That’s interesting, this definitely is an odd problem for sure haha. Another wild idea, do you have jumbo frames enabled anywhere on your network?

As for the ISP, it might be, have you tried multiple VPN providers to see if the problem follows between them?

I have run into this issue a lot, I have always found that most of the tutorials set things up in isolation and never talk about integration points or how to build a whole solution.

On the MetalLB configmap point, that’s another issue I have run into. In the earlier days of metallb it was configured differently and the configmap was automatically created but that has since changed, took me a bit to figure out when that changed as their docs aren’t explicit if I remember correctly. Annoying either way.

I think the reason most tutorials turn off the firewall is in a well configured cloud environment like AWS the host firewall is redundant due to security groups and that is what everyone targets the tutorials for unfortunately and they never explain that even with “disable this if you have other mitigating controls in place” or something.

I have also wondered if we have finally reached the era where the majority of content creators and consumers have never touched an on-prem network and don’t even think about that lens anymore, another good example of this is trying to configure MetalLB in a host with multiple interface that don’t have the same networks available (you know, like using dedicated interfaces for storage like you should), for a long time it just wasn’t possible and metallb would announce all networks on all interfaces which made it basically not functional heh. Whatever the reason is, you are not alone in being annoyed :D

Anyway, these are great points, I have been pondering writing up a larger set of tutorial about my setup since it’s more similar to a small enterprise anymore, I should get on that hah.

Yeah that is true, I had mixed results on the quality of the video using the 7th gen ones so I usually recommend at least 8th gen but that may have improved by now.

As the other person said, NUCs and such are able to do transcodes via Intel QuickSync hardware acceleration, it’s not really possible to transcode 4k in realtime on most CPUs without it.

You will need at least an 8th gen Intel processor to do HVEC which is what h265 uses, more info is in this chart on Wikipedia about which generations support which things. Anecdotally, this has worked extremely well for me for a long time, definitely worth it.

Also be aware if you are doing any virtualization you will need to pass the iGPU through to the guest machine.

You may be right about the processing power, that device was underpowered when it was new. Do you have the VPN terminating on the USG or on the end device?

Also, do you have smart queuing disabled on the WAN interface? That causes all kinds of issues on higher bandwidth connections.

You are right, more specifically in case anyone is curious it usually has to be whomever owns the public IP addresses because that is who would own the reverse zone for that IP block according to the internet root dns servers in most circumstances. In OPs case you are probably right, this is probably the VPS provider but not always.

I would like to inquire more about this “Motivation” app and how does one go about installing it? haha :D

Looks great though, I have wanted to try homarr.

I would try what that other person said, that’s a great idea!

Anecdotally, I actually just got through half of a brand new roll today that I opened two days ago and it has been printing from a dry box and it started spattering from trapped moisture (you will find little chunks of plastic on your bed in past experience) so it’s in the dryer now haha.

Hope it works out!

ETA: I live in CO, USA and the humidity in the room where the printer is currently reads 70.4F/50% and the dry box reads 12% for reference, not much for it to soak up from the air.

My vote is a combo but it includes being wet, is this a new roll or if not how did you have it stored? I have found PETG to be much more finicky with moisture than PLA overall so if you have a way to dry it definitely try that and see what happens before trying to calibrate it.

That is so true, I wish it was talked about more because I think it is something we all deal with at one time or another.

Cloudflare does post their IP ranges so I would probably start with looking at traffic involved with those IPs to see what kind of information was going there, you could also block those ranges and see what breaks.

You aren’t kidding they are hard to move, I was mounting them backwards to work the layout out first but I just found this remover tool today and it makes it way easier!

I don’t know anyone using it personally but I have seen lots of folks here and Reddit that use LXC through Proxmox, I had the same thought though.

Yeah this smells like a bug in Caddy or something. I agree to try nginx or something else to see if it’s Caddy or if it’s something with the configuration of the host. The only thing I could think of is if caddy isn’t caching DNS responses and maybe is getting rate limited so it appears slower while it’s waiting on the DNS request but I am shooting in the dark as I haven’t spent much time with caddy.