Show Notes
We break down the state of the pfSense changes and the red flags we see. Plus, we're joined by Wolfgang from Wolfgang's channel to dig into his homelab and much more. Special Guest: Wolfgang. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free.
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Servo Mounted Ball Valve Blast Gate by The Brumberjack — Used to automatically open and close different parts of an airflow system.
Wolfgang's Channel - YouTube — Hi! My name is Wolfgang and I make videos about tech, Linux and computers.
Wolfgang's Blog
Restricting ASRock Rack BMC to dedicated IPMI_LAN port only — During this process I came across a frustrating "bug" in the Asrock Rack BMC implementation. No matter the settings I gave the BMC it was getting two IP addresses. One on the IPMI_LAN port as expected in my management VLAN, and another on eth0 which is undesirable.
Archive.org: opensense.com
OPNsense.com - OPNsense.org — WIPO decides in favour of OPNsense
pfSense Plus and pfSense CE: Dev Insights and Direction
pfSense 2.5.0 Development Snapshots Now Available
New license types pfSense CE & Plus
pfSense Plus Home+Lab is no longer available as a free download. TAC Subscription now required for CE upgrades.
Addressing Changes to pfSense Plus Home+Lab — Today, we are announcing that the Home+Lab version of pfSense Plus, the commercial fork of the popular open-source firewall pfSense, is no longer available for free download.
Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family — "I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff," a user said of Plex's Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
wESP32 — Wired ESP32 with PoE — The wESP32™ is an ESP32-based core board with wired Ethernet connectivity and power over Ethernet (PoE)
ESP32-S3-BOX-3 Espressif Systems AIoT — The future Home Assistant voice hardware is shipping.
Unifi Network - Setup Chromecast between VLANs
Chromecast casting support across IP networks
Inter-VLAN Casting with Chromecasts
Jovian-NixOS — A set of packages and configurations for running NixOS on the Steam Deck.
SSH 111 Boost Barn! — Thank you Boosters!
Post-Show: Using NixOS as a router
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