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  1. 15 minutes ago, jones177 said:

    Right now I have 2 LG B9s and an Nano Cell 85.

    I am happy with the B9s but the one I tried to use as a monitor did burn in. 

    The Nano Cell is 120hz and has VRR but it does not compare well with OLEDs in picture quality.  

    I'm pretty sure the B9 also has 120 Hz and G-Sync support.

     

    To OP: OLED over NanoCell if you can afford it and watch enough varying content, that burn-in won't be a problem. The difference in the picture quality is huge.

  2. Layer 7 firewall won't work with HTTPS connections, which is used by pretty much everything on the web. Your router cannot see inside HTTPS packets, because they are encrypted, meant to not be visible to any devices inbetween the client (web browser) and web server. That's not a Mikrotik issue.

     

    Mikrotik doesn't do MITM either, so you need to think of a different solution, e.g. DNS or IP address blocking. But then you need to think what if client device uses a different DNS server or even DoT/DoH. IP addresses can change often, so updating them (and knowing all the subdomains) might be a hassle.

  3. Is this a rant post or are you asking for help? If it's the latter, you need to provide more information. What rules do you have, how you are configuring them, what interfaces do you have, are you using just firewall or also L7 etc.

     

    Mikrotik has a learning curve, it's not for everyone.

  4. Share your network layout: wifi or ethernet, what cables, what network devices you have (routers, switches, firewalls, access points), what type of connection (fiber, DOCSIS, VDSL/2, ADSL etc) you have and so forth. When did the problem start, what did you change recently?

  5. 58 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

    It depends on the situation. This is something with the actual scheduler for how this will happen. This is the cliff notes for how it works:

     

    If the task is heavy like a game, it will prioritize it being on the performance cores unless they're running at capacity. If this task is light weight, it will run on the efficiency cores unless they're running at capacity. 

     

    For the most part, games don't really use more than 6 cores, so they'd probably run just on the performance cores. If they do use more than 6 cores, then they will start using the efficiency cores, but they won't be the first thing used for gaming. 

    To be clear, the scheduler in Windows 11 can determine which loads should be on efficiency cores and which on performance cores. If OP is using Windows 10, it can be a hit or miss, because Windows 10 doesn't understand that cores can be different.

     

    On Linux, it sort of depends on the kernel version.

  6. 36 minutes ago, Divocakos said:

    Im kinda noob at those internet stuff such as protocols etc. But its exactly the same internet because that internet provider is providing only 1 kind of internet (fastest in my hometown) so all should be the same or am I mistaken ? 

    These are different technologies for providing Internet access. One ISP can have some legacy infrastructure (e.g. copper cables running xDSL) or a more modern one, such as fiber optic cabling. One router might not work with the other one or require extra hardware or configuration.

     

    It's better to contact your ISP for assistance, it is quite difficult to assist this over a forum if you are not knowledged.

  7. I have some experience to share. I had a 3900x + X570-Prime-Pro in my server, that consumed approximately 100W in idle. Switched to a i3-10100 + B560M motherboard, dropped to about 50-60W.

     

    General consensus around homelab subreddits/communities seems to be, that Intel has better idle power consumption, whereas AMD has better load power consumption (and better price-to-performance etc).

     

    I do have a 4750G in a desktop, but I do not have a power meter at hand, to measure how much that system consumes at idle.

  8. 5 minutes ago, tikker said:

    Safer browsing on public or unprotected networks (encrypting traffic), circumventing geo-blocking measures, putting an extra curtain between your ISP and your internet activity and maybe make tracking you ever so slightly more work (alhtough Google and like's tracking is quite advanced).

     

    Like you say it's not something that makes you completely anonymous nor something to hide from the authorities with. It's an extra layer of privacy.

    Basically this. You are switching your trust from ISP to the VPN company. Depends on who do you trust more.

    Secondly, while HTTPS is secure and third-parties can not see your traffic, they can still see which IPs you are connecting to, which may or may not reveal information.

    Thirdly, TLS Client Hello in HTTPS is not encrypted, so it is quite easy to see the domain you are connecting to.

    Tracking is still possible, if you are still using same browser as usual.

     

    16 minutes ago, Vilian said:

    If you need access to a PC, why not use SSH, if you need access to the file system why not use some form of SFTP client.
    To me, a VPN seems only useful for changing your geo location and bridging into a foreign local network.
    Given the hype for VPN services nowadays, I'm sure i'm missing some key feature.

    VPNs are critical in enterprise world. You can remotely access the internal network, be that web, file or some other servers.

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