Take a look at OPNsense which is open source or pfSense which is more commercial but still has a community version. Good documentation and will run on really old hardware as long as you have two Ethernet ports in the computer. Until last year my router was a 2007 dual core dell PC. I upgraded to a fifth generation I5.

I run the licensed version of pfSense on all the routers in my org. I have full tunnels between each location along with full blocking of malicious sites including all adult content. It may look complicated but if you want to learn how netowrking works you can do a lot worse.

I have no formal training but have been in IT for over thirty years.

Use mkvtoolnix and handbrake. You can quickly drop and add elements of a file with mkvtoonix and handbrake will convert most anything to H265. Its pretty fast with gpu encoding.

I just checked and its up for me. I haven’t logged in yet.

Mine is just a series of knots.

If it isn’t 192.168.1.0/24 then you should blur it. Mine is completely random and I keep it to myself.

Never have I ever piped curl to bash.

I only own one Samsung TV. Its a really smart TV. Its magnificent. It never switches input which is a good thing since I never need to. This is because it has no built in services of the so called 'smart tv’s"

Just let me know so I can change my crontabs.

Wireguard tunnels with a ssh tunnel as a backup.

Nope. I looked at it and couldn’t come up with a way to do it. Please ignore that though. I would love to eliminate their device but so far I haven’t been able. If you figure it out I would be happy to give it a try. I’m using the passthrough method on my att router. My router does have a public IP on the wan and I shut IPV6 down completely.

I have quite a bit of experience with the tech. I’ve worked for several ISPs over the years. My last gig was sysadmin for a small four town ISP.

It depends on their policies. Some ISPs allow you to purchase your own router. Some don’t. As long as their device supports bridging or in some cases DMZ you can just bypass their device to use your own. That is what I did when I switched to AT&Fee fiber.

I use pfsense as my router os and run pfblockerng for my filter. Anytime I have some problem I can log in to the router and look at what is being blocked and if necessary whitelist the entry that is being blocked.

I also redirect all dns to my router at the firewall and block dns over https. This means that all dns no matter the settings on the client machine are redirected to the router. Its not fool proof but so far so good.

Came here to say this. I use wireguard and it simply works.

My thought is that people who dont like this will stop using proton vpn.

Nothing morally wrong with working around a artificial limitation.

Wireguard so you are always seen as being on the local network. This bit of assholery is easily defeated.

is there a decnet found satan sub around here?

Go away dude. I get that you have hived down the subject to the point of obsession but I’ve got websites that have been up for decades and if they go on a blocklist it will be for another reason. Not because of two barely used DNS records. Further if they become required then I’m sure they will be supported.

I’ll worry about it when it happens until then its obscure and of no importance.