Comment by floundy

Comment by floundy 2 days ago

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Huh interesting feature, I'll have to check it out today to see if there's enough improvements over pihole to warrant a switch.

I'm effectively always on my network because I use Wireguard to VPN back in to home, so I can easily access my server and RPi dashboards. Though at this point I've whitelisted a few dozen domains that were giving my wife or I issues, and excluded most of her devices because she doesn't want to be on it, so it's pretty hands-off. The only time I have to disable the pihole nowadays is when I'm unsubscribing from an email list and the link is a tracking link. And that's with over 3M domains blocked.

syntaxing 2 days ago

Do you notice a battery drain with the VPN always on? I used to use tailscale for this and there was a nontrivial battery penalty

  • floundy 20 hours ago

    I've never specifically noticed WireGuard anywhere in the top battery consumers on either Android or iOS. Friday I was out of the house all day, and Wireguard running on cellular all day used 1% of my iPhone battery.