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Anyone know if there's any tips for improving Wireguard client performance? Or is it just more "plug-and-play" than OpenVPN?

Anyone know if there's any tips for improving Wireguard client performance? Or is it just more "plug-and-play" than OpenVPN?

I'm still just trying to get OpenVPN to stop dropping my downloads with weird packet errors (large downloads tend to die a few minutes in with SSL errors but can be resumed immediately).

I have not tried wireguard, should I?

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 4 2022, 18:46

EQed my M40x to the Harman curve according to the PDF on oratory1990 subreddit and it just sounds way worse for me. Too muffled. Maybe because I don't like that much bass since I EQ my Galaxy Buds+ (also Harman curve apparently) down a bit in the low frequency zone.

EQed my M40x to the Harman curve according to the PDF on oratory1990 subreddit and it just sounds way worse for me. Too muffled. Maybe because I don't like that much bass since I EQ my Galaxy Buds+ (also Harman curve apparently) down a bit in the low frequency zone.

As a general rule, if you need an equalizer you have bigger problems.

What did you need this rule for?
Apparently, allowing popup when pressing C on an equipment in hentaiverse worked only on tabs, not on the popup hentaiverse, without that.

Oh, I have some very weird rules set up for my popup blocker in order for one of my user scripts to work already. So I never noticed.

I just modified my windscribe OpenVPN config scraper to scrape wireguard configs instead. Trying it now, we'll see how it goes. This is my first time using Wireguard at all.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 4 2022, 19:29

I just modified my windscribe OpenVPN config scraper to scrape wireguard configs instead. Trying it now, we'll see how it goes. This is my first time using Wireguard at all.

In my experience the performance tends to be better overall but I suppose ymmv.

In my experience the performance tends to be better overall but I suppose ymmv.

Performance seems similar, but i'm still getting random errors downloading big files.

wget example:

CODE

2022-02-04 14:48:48 (370 KB/s) - Read error at byte 34045517/235477349 (Error decoding the received TLS packet.). Retrying.

It does this at regular intervals of exactly 90 seconds. My previous VPN provider never did this.

Happens on TCP and UDP, both with Wireguard and with OpenVPN.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 5 2022, 07:55

so I'm bodging something together with a car stereo deck into another domestic device, should I worry about noisy power supplies or does car stuff not care much for that?
on one side I want to say it'd expect a stable voltage since its normally run from the car battery, but then theres all those shitty alternators without smoothing

so I'm bodging something together with a car stereo deck into another domestic device, should I worry about noisy power supplies or does car stuff not care much for that?
on one side I want to say it'd expect a stable voltage since its normally run from the car battery, but then theres all those shitty alternators without smoothing

It should be okay with moderate noise, although you should not be surprised if it introduces some into the output.

If they can't fix their shit I'm going to be asking for a refund on Windscribe. I am going to recommend not using them until I find a reason to feel otherwise.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 5 2022, 07:58

It should be okay with moderate noise, although you should not be surprised if it introduces some into the output.

it ended up being fine, seems my noise was 'moderate' enough for it to work out.
regarding what I was actually doing, bodging a car cassette deck into the case of a regular casette deck that had killed all its gears, this cassette deck has a lot more features than the regular one meant for home. can play both sides, auto number seeking, very nice.

thought: I wonder why cassettes went so much more out of favor than lp/vinyl, the technology is quite fun and professionally recorded tapes sound fine quality wise.

Because type IV tapes are expensive, Dolby B was the most you could expect out of most recorders/players, and they still are quite noisy.

That's my opinion anyway. I sort of like them, too, but I anticipate that hipsters will be latching onto cassettes any day now.

Edit:
[github.com] Windows users being helpless against their own antivirus programs is hilarious.
I was there because I made a [github.com] PR for a stupid bug where running PixivUtil through a pipe would make it break, even if you just were trying to do '--help | less'. I can tell the author only really uses Windows.
IMO, AV's are as bad as whatever they 'defend' against if you are even slightly technologically literate. And also a waste of CPU cycles and disk I/O.

I wasted a day waiting for windscribe support because their first question was if I was running an antivirus on my OpenBSD machine. -_-
Well, that and if I was using their "app." Which I will never do. If it calls itself an "app" it's crap and probably uses Electron.
I'd have been better off even with normie shit like Nord, at this point.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 5 2022, 20:20

There's a multithreaded version of optipng called oxipng. It's a lot faster.
[github.com] https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng

I wasted a day waiting for windscribe support because their first question was if I was running an antivirus on my OpenBSD machine. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/sleep.gif)

Sorry to laugh at your troubles, but that got a good laugh out of me, as shit as it is that they actually asked you that. The VPN CS agents I've dealt with have luckily been fairly knowledgeable, but then again they also "officially support" (i.e. have guides on the site) running their VPN from OVPN/WG natively.

Sorry to laugh at your troubles, but that got a good laugh out of me, as shit as it is that they actually asked you that. The VPN CS agents I've dealt with have luckily been fairly knowledgeable, but then again they also "officially support" (i.e. have guides on the site) running their VPN from OVPN/WG natively.

No need to apologize; it's funny.

They supposedly do support running OpenVPN directly because they support it on dd-wrt/tomato.

I should have done more research before buying, as usual. I hate SaaS. And companies that treat their customers like retards.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 6 2022, 17:21

No need to apologize; it's funny.

They supposedly do support running OpenVPN directly because they support it on dd-wrt/tomato.

I should have done more research before buying, as usual. I hate SaaS. And companies that treat their customers like retards.

I still stand by the companies I recommend in the other thread fwiw (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

I still stand by the companies I recommend in the other thread fwiw (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

i forget what thread it was, and what they were. Except I believe mullvad was one?
Edit: derp

Would rather not spend more money, but I'm thinking I will end up doing that unless they really step up their game.

Edit: got someone else running a different distro to reproduce the problem with the official "app." They'd better fix it now.
Also, I now suspect their issue tracker system might choke on replies sent as plaintext email. So that's another strike against them.
Third strike: discord channel.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 6 2022, 18:46

Made a digikey order specificly for this serial interface for a radio. Misoredered a chip.
Digikey has the proper one back ordered, but mouser has it- so ordered chips again.

For the moment, my connections have stopped being interrupted. I did get a wireshark log of it happening, though, so I can analyze that if/when it starts happening again.

Sort of not a tech thought, but they changed the pony captcha in HV and my muscle memory is ruined. What is the world coming to? /s

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 8 2022, 21:32

Because type IV tapes are expensive, Dolby B was the most you could expect out of most recorders/players, and they still are quite noisy.

That's my opinion anyway. I sort of like them, too, but I anticipate that hipsters will be latching onto cassettes any day now.

The problem is that the best quality cassette players cost a fortune let alone the media being more expensive. They are sort of expensive now but haven't inflated

The flood of cheap cassette players and car cassette players ruined the 'brand' as most people didn't have a clue about the differences.

I certainly couldn't work out why some cassettes were way better than others even when I inherited top end cassette gear back in the day. I vaguely knew that metal tapes were better, but not the importance of different Dolby tech like Dolby S. By the time I had a high end pioneer and Sony system, CD burners were coming down in price fast. When CD burners dropped from $4000 to $300, and the media was $1 a disk, I think cassettes were dead. Car sound systems also dropped cassette players, I still had a car with one until 2012 though.

Edit:
[github.com] Windows users being helpless against their own antivirus programs is hilarious.

IMO, AV's are as bad as whatever they 'defend' against if you are even slightly technologically literate. And also a waste of CPU cycles and disk I/O.

I suppose if you run everything in a virtualised sandbox you don't need anything.

Got new headphone pads in mail. They sound quite good, but maybe feel a bit warm on my head. We'll see.
I think they did make a lot of improvement in the sound of the monoprices.
Also it's nice that my ear tips don't touch the solid cover over the driver anymore.

The "V" shape is definitely more pronounced now. Vocals (for the kinds of music I listen to) are very clear, but the lows and highs a bit emphasized. If you're okay with that, they sound great and don't lose much detail. Just over-embellish some of it, perhaps.

Modern CD masters tend to be crap though. The 2012 remaster of "Thick as a Brick" sounds like shite compared to the '97 one. And even the '97 isn't free of issues.

I'm not going to try to talk about "sound stage" because at the end of the day they're two speakers on your ears (an "accoustic coupling" of sorts) and as such I am not sure such a thing even exists except for when the music is being mixed.

"Fun" sounding headphones, and pretty responsive, but not something I'd use in a recording studio. Very good for $50 (headphones+pads) by my metric - although the original pads were also just good enough, IMO.

The problem is that the best quality cassette players cost a fortune let alone the media being more expensive. They are sort of expensive now but haven't inflated

The flood of cheap cassette players and car cassette players ruined the 'brand' as most people didn't have a clue about the differences.

I certainly couldn't work out why some cassettes were way better than others even when I inherited top end cassette gear back in the day. I vaguely knew that metal tapes were better, but not the importance of different Dolby tech like Dolby S. By the time I had a high end pioneer and Sony system, CD burners were coming down in price fast. When CD burners dropped from $4000 to $300, and the media was $1 a disk, I think cassettes were dead. Car sound systems also dropped cassette players, I still had a car with one until 2012 though.

Wish I hadn't broken (badly) and thrown out my only Dolby S deck.
I do have a nearly brand new (was brand new old stock when I got it in 2013, seen very little use) B/C dual pioneer deck that's the immediate predecessor of my old S deck. It sounds nice, but S was something else.

Not that there's much reason for anyone to use cassettes other than cars. I like them, but only in that "yeah, those are neat" sort of way. So I appreciate what they are but don't really think they're worth more than five bucks per tape in 2021 2022.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Feb 9 2022, 04:09

Modern CD masters tend to be crap though. The 2012 remaster of "Thick as a Brick" sounds like shite compared to the '97 one. And even the '97 isn't free of issues.

I'm not going to try to talk about "sound stage" because at the end of the day they're two speakers on your ears (an "accoustic coupling" of sorts) and as such I am not sure such a thing even exists except for when the music is being mixed.

"Fun" sounding headphones, and pretty responsive, but not something I'd use in a recording studio. Very good for $50 (headphones+pads) by my metric.

This is the problem, I have one pair of ultra detailed headphones but everything sounds crap with them unless its really well mastered. I can't justify buying any other headphones until I use them enough, so it put an end to my spending on headphones.

2000 - 2012 is like a mastering black hole, where they sacrificed all the dynamic range to the perceived loudness gods.

I donated all my early 90s classical CDs to a library project that wanted to preserve well mastered audio.

There are some recordings that are really good and now available in FLAC and AAC but only very well recorded classical takes advantage of 24 bit digital audio.

Lol, I only just noticed windows was set to 16bit. Maybe 24bit sounds different, can really tell on my current headphones.

Wish I hadn't broken (badly) and thrown out my only Dolby S deck.

If I knew they were going to be worth $500-600 I might have kept them. I just didn't really have much good quality cassette recordings though.

Not that there's much reason for anyone to use cassettes other than cars. I like them, but only in that "yeah, those are neat" sort of way. So I appreciate what they are but don't really think they're worth more than five bucks per tape in 2021 2022.

People don't even have CD players these days. I sold my old car and I thought the CD changer was a key feature but literally nobody gave a crap about it lol.



CD stackers/changers were the bees knees at some point lol.


EDIT: My previous dac supported automatic switching for audio quality and bit rate. Seems more complicated on this one.

Seems to be music player specific on windows 10?

*looks up manual*

rofl, four 32bit D/A converters per channel?? Lol seems a bit overkill.

Supports DSD, driverless 24/96khz but there is a driver based USB audio 2 mode. Maybe I just need the drivers? Oh it says it has that already installed.

Maybe i'll just stick it to 24/48khz. Not sure how to get automatic switching working, maybe it doesn't have that feature.


Hmmm also worked out the 192khz audio input led is burnt out. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Feb 9 2022, 05:54