Ordered one - I will be traveling and would be nice to switch exit nodes as needed while on the go. Not that I need to hide the fact I’m out of country, but seems like a good way to connect up the work laptop to appear on my home IP.
Anyone using glinet routers for that purposes and have any tips?
I don’t use it for work but on every trip I am actually connecting “at home”. I have a WG server at home (you can use one glinet as an easy to configure VPN server) and a travel glinet as the client. Whenever I reach a hotel I connect the client glinet to the hotel hotspot (or cable), it connects to the home VPN, and all my devices connect to this client glinet WiFi and through that VPN tunnel. Everything is seamless with the only manual step being to connect the travel router to whatever internet pipe provided.
The Mango I have is on the slow side, specs say max 45Mbps over WG as a client, and I measured ~25Mbps when using a Mango as the server. But it’s tiny and very low power so perfect for travel.
Yes. I've traveled abroad and connected my work laptop to our home server through the glinet so I wouldn't need to deal with any hassle of having a foreign IP address even though I disclosed my location to my employer. In fact I keep my work gear always connected to the glinet, even at home.
No tips, it just works, but test it out before you leave for your trip!
My work resets my Mac sleep timer settings on reboot or update. This is very annoying for maintaining persistent connections to servers, such as my development machine. I wrote a simple Python script to move my mouse pointer by 1-5 pixels at random intervals. Works great, and it always looks like I’m online for prying eyes in Slack.
I’ve seen singleton mis-implemented as well. For example, multithreaded implementations that can actually can make multiple instances depending on timing due to the constructor/initialization not being thread-safe.
I’m a SWE who has a long term goal/dream of working for myself. I’m sure lots of readers here have this exact same dream.
It is hard to pull yourself away from the nice salary and benefits of the corporate job. The opportunity cost of working for myself and failing for a year or two is very high when salaries are 250k+ for senior devs.
It would be great to reduce the risk with part-time work. I hope it becomes more normalized. The problem I see is the ramp time for new workers to get productive. If the workers are part-time it is longer.
For those who are concerned with “hours worked”, that’s just bad management. Set concrete goals and then evaluate worker output. Hours is irrelevant.
I hope I find the courage to try breaking out “on my own” before it is too late. The one thing we all cannot buy is more time.
I think the idea that all people figure things out on their own and will escape a life of freedom or hedonism because “its empty and hollow” have never experienced drug addiction. Agassi might have made it out but a lot of people don’t. In a lot of ways I feel the opposite of this article. I rebelled against discipline throughout my teenage years and later came to appreciate my parents and teachers efforts way more. I wish I had stuck with instruments or tried harder in my math classes. Life is hard work and building the skill of discipline when it comes to life long learning is invaluable and fulfilling.
It should be easier for people to say “I no longer feel like I have free will” and also “I now feel like I have free will again” so that others can take care of them, but also in a way that won’t take away their rights. I also think people who help people who are close to rock bottom often put a lot of skin in the game, and not always but sometimes can get hurt in the process- they should have protection too.
Depressive hedonism is powerful.. The death drive is like playing a tit-for-tat strategy against one’s own lebenswelt. I hope people don’t take me as being dismissive or insensitive or ignoring the contributions of biophysics to drug dependency etiology, but from a free will frame of analysis it resembles a kind of very dark and very negative discipline itself.
Imagine if it were just a thing that people could get help with as unshamefully as eg going to the dentist.
I live in tandem with a nihilistic part of myself, the blackpilled part of me. It likes to secretly collect evidence for why it should be dominant. When it has been in control is when I have felt the freest, the most authentic.
What's more, it is so developed that I can name it. I don't know the name of what society wants me to be. Domesticated citizen? Good boy? Effectless stranger?
I have a project in my head of outlining my "core beliefs": "Better living through chemistry", "All knowledge is accessible through language", "Brains over brawn", etc. The shadow part of me slips things in: "If God exists, God is evil", "Life is meaningless", "Humans are untrustworthy", etc.
If I could go to a doctor and point at some part of my brain, or at some chemical imbalance, it would be amazing. As it stands, I feel like each of our personal psychological maintenance entails us little individual people picking up boulders and moving them to other parts of the neurochemical pit. Sometimes we get help with big machines like lithium or whatever. It just feels like we're still in the dark ages of human neurochemistry, and we can't help piling on more confounding variables.
Anyways, I just wanted to share. I don't have any answers. Or at least, the moment's struggle with my shadow occludes them.
It's better when you find something you enjoy. Some people don't enjoy what is traditionally presented to them via standard education and upbringing. But if you can branch out, and find something that tickles or scratches that itch. Oh boy.. applying discipline comes a lot easier and is rewarding.
I’m not always great about this myself, but I think a lot of this is self-imposed/external deadlines. What I like to make sure I remember is that there is always more work. Don’t rush yourself cause you’ll just be given more. If approaching deadlines you can’t meet with a reasonable work life balance - cut the scope, break it into smaller chunks, and inform stakeholders. Set expectations that you aren’t going to complete things on a frantic 60 hour+ schedule. Work finds those who are competent. Slow down and maybe be okay with not exceeding expectations all the time.
Anyone using glinet routers for that purposes and have any tips?