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Homemade VPN split-tunneling

VPN split-tunneling is an extremely common feature for any commercial VPN, and I argue it’s an absolute essential. For example, regardless of your use case, you probably wouldn’t want to login to your bank from a VPN connection. If nothing else, they’d probably lock your account, creating a headache for you. This makes it rather annoying if you want to split-tunnel for a noncommercial VPN, like one you host. Wireguard is built into the Linux kernel (as of version 5....

December 17, 2024 · 7 min · 1446 words

Lifelong iPhone User Installs Graphene OS

Around the middle of August, after spending an unusually high amount of money at a local convention, I made an extremely wise decision to check Amazon for some reason. It was Amazon Prime day. As far as phones go, the only real contenders were a Pixel 7a or the Pixel 8. The Pixel 7a was very low at $400, but I ended up going for the Pixel 8 instead. For just $200 more, I’d have a phone that was officially supported for a decent while longer, so why not?...

October 2, 2024 · 6 min · 1226 words