In my own experience, certain things should always be on their own dedicated machines.

My primary router/firewall is on bare metal for this very reason.

I do not want to worry about my home network being completely unusable by the rest of my family because I decided to tweak something on the server.

I could quite easily run OpnSense in a VM, and I do that, too. I run proxmox, and have OpnSense installed and configured to at least provide connectivity for most devices. (Long story short: I have several subnets in my home network, but my VM OpnSense setup does not, as I only had one extra interface on that equipment, so only devices on the primary network would work)

And tbh, that only exists because I did have a router die, and installed OpnSense into my proxmox server temporarily while awaiting new-to-me equipment.

I didn’t see a point in removing it. So it’s there, just not automatically started.

My reasons for keeping OpnSense on bare metal mirror yours. But additionally I don’t want my network to take a crap because my proxmox box goes down.

I constantly am tweaking that machine…

Yeah. We have a smart washer. It’s out in our detached garage/shop so even if the chime were on, no one in the house would ever hear it.

The only “smart” feature we use on it at all is remote notifications.

And we don’t use the GE app for that either. I have it linked through our Home Assistant, so no one in the family needs their crap on our phones. Yes, HA must link into their servers, but the only real data GE gets is how much we use it, and the “city” where our internet connection says we’re in… which is 300 miles away from our actual home, in a completely different state.

By replacing it with something better.

Because almost everyone else in the world has begun referring to their entire internet connection as “Wi-Fi” and it pisses me off, too.

TIL Oklahoma is in Australia.

Yeah, this happened at the absolute worst time for me. I have 6 of their WiFi bulbs that I’ve been planning to replace, but the wife’s car just broke down yesterday, and she had a surgical procedure today. And my kid starts her senior year of high school in a week or two, and registration is now, and she needs new clothes for school. Ugh.

Needless to say, money is too tight to replace these 6 not-so-smsrt bulbs just yet.

Thankfully, the 6 bulbs are: 3 in the kid’s room, and 3 in the front porch. Ad the kid has other lighting that continues working fine, and the porch lights are only needed if someone goes out there, and we rarely use the front porch, as our main entryway is the back one. I also have several zigbee relays, and some esphome devices so it’s not like my entire setup just died…

I was about to pull the trigger on replacing them the last time this crap happened, and they started working again, so they got moved to a back burner.

You are wildly off base if you think I have any love for that monster.

You are also completely wrong in that oppression is the natural state of power.

How naive can you be? You think your vote matters here?

When every single district has been gerrymandered to death for 100 years, nobody’s vote really matters anymore.

So you want Trump and MAGA politicians to be able to deny your payments instead?

The problem with “just let the government do it” is when the government is run by people like this.

Get Oracle cloud free VPS. Create a VPN connection from your server to it.

Set up port forwarding from your VPS to your server. Connect to your server using your vps’ IPv4 address.

Done.

Works better than a proxy, for sure.

cries in broke

I have 4x3TiB drives in a currently-degraded RAIDZ1 due to a hard drive failure. I have a replacement coming, and my fingers are crossed that I don’t lose another drive beforehand.

I actually had to force it via the CLI.

ha core update

That didn’t work either, I had to manually specify the version:

ha core update --version 2025.7.0

Is there some trick to getting this installed? My HAOS instance (x64 generic) has no updates pending despite refreshing by clicking “Check for updates” in the android app…

No shit? The thing security geeks have been warning about for years with all the cameras everywhere actually happened?

No way! Whodathunkit?

Tell me again what the voter turnout percentage was?

The vast majority of us are so used to our voices not being heard that we don’t even bother voting. It doesn’t change anything.

You keep talking about how they voted “for” this and that, without even understanding that most people in the USA didn’t vote for anything at all.

Election results say it doesn’t. Because they’ve alienated a huge majority of the working class. Because blue collar workers overwhelmingly vote against the Democratic party in the US.

You can call them all uneducated buffoons all you want, but in doing so, you are only proving my point that the Democratic Party has alienated them totally.

Why do you think the Democratic party, once well known as the party of the working class, no longer holds that distinction?

Do you have any idea what you’re talking about? No.

It doesn’t matter what rural areas vote for. They’re all gerrymandered to shit just like the cities are.

The political elite on both sides have a good chunk of us fighting each other instead of them. So, congrats on falling for the same bullshit.

Seems about right to me.