antsu's blag

Quick one to share a little useful automation.

Mini post to celebrate and share a solution I stumbled on.

This is a post I was not expecting to make, but after I mentioned in an online community about my Matrix setup for video calls with my family, there was some interest in it, and so I've decided to document it here as it may help others to achieve the same.

I suspect not a lot of people are using Meshtastic over Wi-Fi, since it was a little difficult to find the information I'm going to share here.

OpenWRT is an extremely competent little piece of software that breathes new life into wireless routers old and new.

I came across this error last week, when trying to create a BlissOS VM with VirtIO graphics acceleration on my server.

Our house is a new build and came with solar panels already fitted.

Tailscale is a very well-known VPN service, which uses Wireguard under hood but abstracts most of the complexity away, and uses very clever tricks to punch through pretty much any firewall both ways, establishing a reliable mesh amongst your devices.

⚠️ I have moved away from this setup in favour of Steam-Headless, and you probably should too.

OpenMediaVault is a very powerful NAS solution built on top of Debian, and it is what I chose to run on my main server at home.

Yes, more news at 11.

My current ISP offers IPv6 connectivity, but it is opt-in.

Most of this post was meant to be a single section in another post I wrote about IPv6, but then it got out of hand and became too long and disconnected from the main topic, so I'm giving it its own space here.

⚠️ I have migrated away from the setup described in this post ages ago, but I'm keeping it up just in case someone wants to experiment with it like I did (and eventually learn it's not worth the hassle).

I have a blag now.