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
Tag: wireguard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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