A VPN proxy is a monthly service that allows you to establish a secure VPN tunnel connection from your devices out to some servers in a data center somewhere. This VPN tunnel does a number of things – first, it protects your data from anyone who may be snooping on the network – for example, if you’re connected to the …
LTX2023 Whale LAN Network Diagram
LTX2023 was an amazing event! Inside the bigger convention was Whale LAN – a LAN gaming party where hundreds of attendees brought in their own gaming computers and played for 2 days straight. The network that LTT set up for the Whale LAN was absolutely overkill – the centerpiece of which was a 200Gbps connection over to a Lancache server …
Home Assistant: The Ultimate Setup Guide – a Step-by-Step Tutorial
Home Assistant is absolutely my favorite Raspberry Pi project of all time. It provides a framework for automating your home and controlling all of the various IoT devices that we all have lying around our homes these days. My own Home Assistant server for example not only controls a bunch of different lights around my home, but I have also …
How to Disappear Online
Online privacy and security are critical components to ensuring that your personal data isn’t leaked all over the Internet every time you surf the web. Your personal data is a valuable commodity for companies such as Google, Facebook, and others that sell your information to advertisers for profit. And on the nefarious side, your personal data can be used by …
I Cancelled Starlink.
Cancelling Starlink is really a bittersweet moment for me. It was just over 2 years ago on Feb. 21st, 2021 that I released my first Starlink video called ‘Game Changer.’ I was absolutely giddy with excitement for this new technology that I 100% believed was going to change the world. That video garnered over 360,000 views on YouTube, and I …
Cloudflare Tunnel Easy Setup
Cloudflare Tunnels is an AWESOME service for home users and businesses alike. But what is it exactly? Cloudflare Tunnels is kind of like a VPN connection in that it’s a secure way to access resources on your internal private network from the outside world. So for instance, say you have a Synology NAS device that has a local GUI interface, …
Easy Yubikey How-To: Two Factor Authentication for iOS!
I love Yubikeys…when it comes to securing my accounts, I use them absolutely everywhere. You can check out my video titled ‘You Should Be Using Yubikeys‘ to learn more about these impressive little security devices. The keys I like best are the Yubikey 5-series. There’s the Yubikey 5 NFC which features USB-A or USB-C on one end as well as …
T-Mobile Home Internet Review
I’ve been wanting to try out T-Mobile Home Internet for a while now – it’s a 5G-based Internet service that’s $50/mo. with no service contract. If you already have a T-Mobile cell phone account, their 5G Home Internet service drops down to $25/mo. Seems like a pretty good deal overall with one big caveat – you have to be in …
Orange Pi 5 – Simple Overview and Installation with M.2 SSD
The Orange Pi 5 is the latest SBC (single board computer) model from Orange Pi – an open source hardware and software manufacturer based out of China. I have been a long time fan of the Raspberry Pi – a similar SBC product that is now about 3 years old. However, the issue with the Raspberry Pi’s is that chip …
Starlink Side Hustle – How To Make Money with your Internet
Last summer, I attended a music festival out in the middle of nowhere. No cell reception, no Internet, no connectivity whatsoever. Which is great if you’re looking to ‘get away from it all’ for a while, but I’m the kind of guy who prefers to stay connected…even if that just means checking in on emails to make sure nothing at …