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Auto-connecting a VPN on a Wi-Fi connection from a mobile router on Debian 11

I'm travelling for work a little more now than I have been for a couple of years. I tether my laptop to my phone, rather than rely on Wi-Fi, and I need more data than I currently have in my phone's Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 28 February 2022 Category Networking Tags Debian 11 WireGuard VPN Internet access cellular GNOME

Hosted Raspberry Pi as a service / Raspberry Pi colocation

If you want a Raspberry Pi but don't want it connected to your own Internet connection (e.g. to host a WireGuard server), here's a list of the places that I have found which offer either Raspberry Pi Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 24 February 2022 Category Tech Tags Raspberry Pi hosting colocation WireGuard

Automatic on-demand activation of WireGuard for Android /e/

I like WireGuard as a VPN system. I also like my phone to be connected to the VPN whenever it is not on a trusted Wi-Fi network, so that all my traffic routes via an encrypted tunnel back through our Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 18 February 2022 Category Tech Tags vpn wireguard /e/ android

WireGuard not routing IPv6 traffic: GNOME 3 / Network Manager

A reminder for me. If you've got WireGuard configured as a VPN client in Debian 11 Bullseye's Network Manager, and it does not route IPv6, check Allowed IPs contains ::/0. Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 23 January 2022 Category Tech Tags WireGuard GNOME Network Manager VPN networking Linux Debian Debian 11 Bullseye

WireGuard VPN plugin for NetworkManager in GNOME 3 on Debian 11 Bullseye

By default, GNOME 3's VPN configuration tool for NetworkManager supports IPSEC VPNs, but not WireGuard. I want WireGuard support because: I can import settings from a WireGuard config file. I can Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 9 January 2022 Category Networking Tags wireguard vpn GNOME Debian bullseye

PinePhone: WireGuard, dns-over-https, and other thoughts

I've already written about installing Mobian, with full disk encryption, on a PinePhone, and some initial software notes. This is a bit of an update. I was pleased by what "just works" And, no, I'm Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 14 December 2021 Category Tech Tags PinePhone Mobian Linux PineTime wireguard dns over https Wi-Fi

Escaping from iOS with /e/: day 3

I had a trip to London yesterday, so I could do some slightly different testing for day 3 on my move away from an iPhone and Apple Watch to a OnePlus 6T running /e/ and a PineTime. In short, another Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 25 November 2021 Category Tech Tags /e/ iOS iPhone surveillance PineTime wireguard cawbird

Moving from macOS to Debian 11 Bullseye Linux: applications

I've been working towards a move from macOS to Linux for a while now, and the very concerning announcement from Apple that it intended to write code to scan content on users' private devices hastened Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 4 September 2021 Category Software Tags debian bullseye linux macOS wireguard xournal++

Installing Debian 10 Linux on a Microsoft Surface Pro 6

I have been on the hunt for a portable, travel-friendly, not-too-expensive, computer running Debian for a while now, and it has led me to Microsoft's Surface Pro. A Surface Pro 6, to be exact, as I Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 11 July 2021 Category Software Tags debian linux surface pro 6 wireguard

wireguard via algo: a simpler, faster(ish) alternative to IPSec

tl;dr: I'm impressed with wireguard, and I'm impressed with algo, but using wireguard with the macOS and iOS clients makes things slower than I had hoped. Wireguard, as an IPSec replacement I've been Read more
neilAuthor neil Posted on 14 March 2021 Category Networking Tags vpn IPSec wireguard algo linux

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