Honestly even most Excel users would be fine transitioning to LibreOffice Calc. I was very impressed with how most of my spreadsheets just worked on recent Calc versions. Formulas and charts were mostly all fine. Even pivot tables worked. I had one formula that had to be changed (it was specific to Excel, but there was an equivalent option in Calc), and one external data pull that I had to figure out. That was across 4 pretty involved spreadsheets.

The main problem will be users who are so ingrained with the specifics of navigation that they can’t easily adapt to a new menu system. The same happened when Microsoft changed from the old toolbars to the ribbon. And that will be an issue across all the apps.

For DIY consider a setup that supports ECC RAM to help prevent corruption. Any good server motherboard should do.

Unraid is pretty easy to get going on. That’s probably the direction I would take in your situation.

Also, if you’re not doing 3-2-1 backup now might be a good time to consider an off-site backup plan. That 4-bay Synology at a friend’s house with a VPN path would be an option for critical data. You could give them some partitioned space on there and on your new NAS to compensate for the power usage. Setup Borg or Restic and it’ll be encrypted on the remote NAS, and benefit from incremental and dedupe to minimize bandwidth usage.

today we are all buttholes

I thought so too, but the article really delivered. I didn’t know I was living in The Butthole Era. I suspected it, but I didn’t know it.

Ah, got it. That plan should be great. You can segment your own wired+WiFi network with that hardware, and even do Wireguard from the hAP ax2 to get whole-network egress via an outside VPN service at a good data rate, if you want.

The other devices you might consider as the router are the GL-iNet Slate series. They will be slower as a VPN router, but they’re pretty small and light. They come with a skinned OpenWRT, but in most cases you can install a build of the unmodified OS if you want.

Sure. That plan would work. You might want to be sure that this is permitted at your university.

Universities often have strict rules about what should connect to their networks.

That isn’t what I would choose for your situation. CRS3xx switches are fast at switching (layer 1 & 2), but not as a NAT router, which you probably need.

Better to pick something from the Mikrotik Ethernet Routers range, assuming you don’t want your personal LAN to have WiFi. The L009 or basic RB5009 are both good options in the same price range. Choosing depends on your upstream connection speed. Both are fanless.

Or pick a Home/Office Wireless device if you are permitted to have your own WiFi access point. The hAP ax2 is small, affordable and performs well at 1Gbps. If your upstream connection is 1Gpbs this is probably what I would choose even if you don’t want WiFi as long as this is enough ports. Just turn off its WiFi radios to use it wired-only. If you have a 2.5Gbps upstream port then hAP ax3 is a better choice.

All the Mikrotik choices will require some learning if you want anything beyond a basic router configuration. But once you get it like you want it they are very solid and reliable.

OpenWRT and OPNSense are easier to jump into without a lot of effort, so if you don’t want a networking hobby I would use one of them. Pick up pre installed device if you want it easy. Or get a mini PC with a few network ports and install the OS yourself to get more power for the money.

How about creating your own LAN within the untrusted network?

Something like an inexpensive OpenWRT router would do fine. Connect all your devices and the server to the router. They are now on a trusted network. Set up Wireguard on the OpenWRT router to connect to Proton so that your outbound traffic from all your devices is secured.

Team hankie! I like to think of mine as the towel recommended by Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It was just oversight that I didn’t have mine in my recent share.

Ha! My kingdom for some flatware!

Yeah, it’s not often. Normally a few times per month probably. More often than the bottle opener and less than the scissors.

In a normal day it’s only in my pocket if I know I’ll need it, hoping to avoid disposable utensils when I’m already planning to eat in a setting where that would be the default. It’s on me every day when I carry a bag or a backpack.

I also travel a good bit. When I’m on the road it gets used at least once per day - often multiple times in a day.

It will be similar but not the same. Tvarog & quark are more acidic. So it will have a tartness you may or may not like. With cottage cheese there is more rennet for curdling, the curd is cut like with cheese production, and the curd is heated and washed, producing a more firm and less sour curd. Then cream is added.

So try it and see what you think. If it is too sour you could try and find a very soft fresh cheese it might be closer to the curd you are familiar with and add cream to that.

In the end though, cottage cheese is an industrial product, with all kinds of bioengineering involved (like special bacteria strains that produce diacetyl for a buttery flavor). So any hacks will be unlikely to duplicate the flavor and texture exactly. It’s probably worth learning to love the local stuff.

Could also be a stale DNS cache entry on one device or the router. If you ping your duckdns fqdn from the device that can’t connect while on your home network, does it resolve to the correct public IP?

I still think a firewall/nat issue is more likely tho.

What is your router make and model? You need to enable hairpin NAT.

The port is forwarded from your router to the pi, right? If so, you could test for the router as the bottleneck using the router’s WAN side IP address as the target.

This should give you a good data point for comparison. If it’s also slow then you can focus on the router performance. Some are slow when doing hairpin NAT.

Definitely!

I’d say your chances are very good. Even their high end rackmount models work with the usbhid-ups driver. Don’t think they would change things up in this regard since they would also need to change their software.

Powder detergent is the way. When I open up the dishwasher at the end of the cycle and find clean dishes and no residual foam at the bottom of the machine I know that I used just the right dose.

It’s probably still IPv6 related. If you use something like Network Analyzer on your phone while only connected to the mobile network you may find that it only shows an IPv6 address and DNS server, no IPv4 config. That could explain the difference. Particularly if you were using the maximum typically permissible MTU. Your provider might also be doing some 6to4 tunneling somewhere that adds overhead and causes size problems.

You might want to do a DNS leak test from your phone with the wireguard connection down and then with it up to make sure you’re tunneling DNS. This will be clearer if you set pihole to use something upstream that an ISP is unlikely to use - quad9 for example.

Stated reasons are safety and security. They are officially still in a health quarantine, but the leadership has expressed that the security situation has been better with no migrants, and so it continues. The opposition and neighbor states disagree.

A spicy near-land entry by air is sure to lead to an even spicier exit procedure when the visa is checked!