HiddenLayer555

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

We don’t actually have an issue with the label

I'll keep proudly calling myself a tankie as long as it pisses the libs off

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Jean Luc Picard's fake French accent.

Actual French accent isn't even close.

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Maggie and the Ferocious Beast (the first English cartoon I remember watching), Rollie Pollie Ollie, Martha Speaks, Franklin, Little Bear, Total Drama Island/Action, and 6Teen taught me English when I came to Canada.

Star Trek got me started on my path to tankiehood and sci-fi writing. Futurama also significantly contributed to the latter.

Pokemon, Wonderpets and Redwall (and many of the cartoons from the learning English category) got me interested in writing animal characters. Zootopia pissed me off so much with its inconsistent world building that it sealed the deal and made me obsessed with perfecting my own fictional animal world.

Family Guy taught me how not to write characters and their interactions.

How It's Made is just awesome and satisfying, no further comments.

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

I find lot of seafood disgusting, and the unsustainability of wild caught seafood is just the cherry on top.

Unagi. Doesn't taste that special and has a texture like dried out overcooked fish complete with the occasional sharp scale or bone that stabs your throat. Definitely not worth decimating wild eel populations for.

Related, any kind of fish eggs. Whether caviar or salmon roe sushi. They're like those popping bubbles in bubble tea but instead of a nice sweet fruit syrup it's concentrated fish stink that coats your tongue and overpowers everything else.

Oysters and clams (bivalves in general). You're literally eating its entire digestive system complete with poop. The crunchy sand is just a reminder of that. And eating it raw is a great way to get parasites and hepatitis.

One that's not seafood: asparagus. People say it makes your pee stink but somehow don't talk about how much the vegetable itself stinks going in. Maybe I've just never found a cooking method I like but I've never tasted an asparagus that doesn't make me wince when swallowing. I personally love the vast majority of vegetables, many of which I prefer compared to meat, but asparagus (and Chinese bitter melon) are exceptions.

Any kind of alcohol in general. I think beer tastes and smells like the liquid at the bottom of a dumpster, so does wine, and any kind of spirit tastes like literal poison. Whatever psychoactive effects it has is not worth the constant nausea during and after drinking. If I'm looking for psychoactive effects, I prefer edible cannabis extract, still doesn't taste that great but you only need a tiny amount to get high which you can chase down with regular food to make the taste go away.

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

I think they are just expensive because they are rare and fragile, not because they are magically delicious.

Most of the snooty rich people food are like this. It's also why they're so threatened by cheap mass produced alternatives. If the knockoffs were actually significantly inferior in flavour they wouldn't be threatened.

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

No shit.

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Royal We

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

So the Raspberry Pi would be a better choice in this regard?

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Thank you!

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Ok, so if my main router is on 192.168.1.1 and my new OpenWrt router I plan on connecting to VPN is 192.168.1.2, I should set the OpenWrt router's gateway to 192.168.1.1, set any devices I want on the VPN to use gateway 192.168.1.2, and any devices I don't want on the VPN should stay on 192.168.1.1, right?

Would devices on the VPN still be able to access the local network and devices that have 192.168.1.1 as their gateway? I assume it would only route internet bound traffic and the OpenWRT router would be able to just pass through local network traffic the same way as the main router?

Also, would the OpenWrt router be able to deal with the main router handling DHCP if I configure it to give it a static IP? Will it just know what devices it's talking to when the main router assigns them their dynamic IPs?

Sorry for all the noob questions, networking is not one of my strengths.

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

just get a cheap Pi-type device, install OpenWRT, setup your VPN connections, then create a route on your network to point at this new device for whatever you need it for.

Can I just set its IP address as the default gateway on my devices instead of the main router and expect it to forward everything to the main router through the VPN? Or is there a more complicated setup procedure to get the two routers talking properly?

I briefly tried to make my server a default gateway in the past but couldn't get it to work, and I'm generally not super experienced with networking. But that was on a general non-router OS. Does OpenWrt do the gateway and routing/forwarding configuration by itself more than a general Linux OS?

HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Hmm, basically make a container with the VPN client and proxy server, and expose the proxy port through it? Not sure how to route the host server's traffic through that but I suppose I can just point all the important stuff to the local container's proxy port. I'll see if that's more reliable than modifying the host network configurations. Thanks!

I've also been thinking of switching to Nix so I can just configure it once and rebuild the entire system with all the condigurations at any time without going through manually setting everything back up with individual commands/file edits. Though I'm not sure if that'd be more reliable given it's broken randomly on Fedora when I didn't even change any network configurations.

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

I don't have custom firmware on my router and frankly don't trust the stock one to handle VPN connections securely without sending "analytics" back to the manufacturer.

I'm thinking about seeing if I can get OpenWrt on it though, but I'm worried it won't be reliable enough and I really don't want to be in a situation where I have no internet period after my experiences with just the proxy server breaking. The only reason I've been able to troubleshoot it is because the internet itself still works.

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

TIL companies have Mac fleets

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

"Who cares if all the local independent stores got killed by giant chain stores? Chain stores are cheaper anyway!"

You would not believe the percentage of times someone says this whenever I bring up why chain stores suck. How's that Loblaws bread tasting these days?

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HiddenLayer555 @lemmy.ml 2mo ago

Do you remember how much RAM it was?