Respectfully, punching down does nothing but make people who are suffering feel worse. Posting here about how much better you have it than us isn’t helpful. We already know how messed up it is here.

That’s a reach beyond reaches.

Seems like you’re spewing FUD to me, mostly. I agree Apple is far from perfect, but they literally introduced an e2e methodology for much of iCloud data recently.

Besides, even if they are only doing this out of selfish desire, it’s still a good thing for the consumers in this case.

Good on them for standing up for what’s right on this.

That’s ShyGuy from Mario

For a long while last year, I had an iPhone and my fiancé had a Pixel. It did not matter whatsoever in regards to the relationship. We used Telegram (still do).

If phone choice dictates someone’s choice in partner it is probably safe to categorize them as “terminally online.” Stay away from those people.

There is no double nat. Passthrough mode has worked as expected for me. The one issue I have is that the RG will maintain firewall states, so it limits you to the RG hardware for those states. I have a pretty large home network though, tons of devices, IoT, etc, and it has been stable.

Latency seems decent. I have an AT&T fiber 2gb symmetrical connection and a ping to google from my Netgate pfSense machine is around 10-15ms.

I used Plex for years, and it is the superior product (if you pay) compared to Open Source alternatives. However, after seeing Plex’s recent incentive pivots and looking for investors I jumped shipped to Jellyfin. The thermometor of enshittification is indicating that Plex is on its way out.

Folks who haven’t looked at alternatives yet, do so now.

I’ve been using Linux for 15 years. Tinkering with WSL is not as fruitful as tinkering with Linux.

The link you provided for DNS is exactly the solution I was describing in my original post. It never worked for me, though. We have a custom DNS setup in-house and simply setting the nameserver doesn’t work. It is far too much of a hassle, so we just spin up wsl-vpnkit when we need network access.

Mac users and Linux native users don’t have these issues and everything works out of the box.

The performance I get when compiling and running integration tests through Rancher desktop integration on WSL is abysmal. Taking 30+ minutes to complete whereas for other employees on Macs see things done in under 5 minutes. Not sure if there is a WSL specific firewall / networking issue or what. If you look up “WSL2 poor network performacne” you’ll see dozens of open GitHub issues. It is very non-deterministic. Some days it runs great, other days it is terrible.

I assume I’ll have a million of other replies coming along that link me to random benchmarks and articles about how great WSL2 is, but I’m telling you, I use it every single day at my job as a software engineer. It has problems. I’m grateful it exists and that I can hack it just enough to work (sometimes), but it is nothing like using Linux natively.

I have the same Residental Gateway. Using pfSense+ on my end. The BGW320-500 is fiber capable. I assume you’re using fiber? If so you cannot hook it into ONT because the RG is the ONT. In my case I get raw fiber into a PON module that hooks into the RG. Best you can do in this case is set the RG to “passthrough mode” via web UI (192.168.1.254).

If you have a different setup that is not fiber maybe you’ll have more luck with a bypass, but I think you will need the RG regardless for auth: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/authbridge.html

I use WSL2. It has bugs. DNS stops working when you connect to a VPN, which I have to do every day for all of my work. To fix that you can either modify the resolv conf (which gets wiped out on every startup) and then chattr it to prevent it from being deleted (this still didn’t quite work for me). Or you can install wsl-vpnkit and pipe all of your network traffic through another container.

I have been working in docker and rancher desktop, both of which have integrations with WSL but with other caviats and bugs. I basically have a bunch of very highly specific steps written up for other employees for “how to get this working with WSL” because it is so buggy.

I work at Oracle and leverage WSL for for some things. It works… but I wish I could just use Linux. WSL is full of gotchas and weird bugs. Performance is not good either.