I mostly just want to log connections and IPs to have a record of things.

I just use Firefox Sync. Works on all those platforms.

"What's a checkbox? Oh, you mean that thing we use to trick users into 'consenting' to telemetry?"

Yea, I didn't like that they are going to drop support in the next version or whatever. Not sure if it's their intended replacement, but Wireguard is installed by default in TrueNAS Bluefin. I recently switched to that, and I find the performance is way better than OpenVPN.

What are you using to monitor wireguard?

My (albeit, somewhat older) j model hits 100% cpu just logging into the web UI. Synologys are nice, but definitely stay away from their budget models.

In my best Janeway voice: "DEW IT."

Closed. If there's a fire in the other parts of your house, you'll have more time to be alerted and escape.

You'd set your firewall rules to only accept requests from the cloudflare datacenter IPs for those port forwards. So, the ports would be otherwise blocked to anyone else trying to access them directly.

Maybe they already replaced their Writers, Authors, and Proofreaders, and generated the whole thing using ChatGPT.

"You're under arrest for crimes against the United States, Terrorism, and lying"

I'm not racist, one of my friends is ~~Black~~ Orion!