Muuhahahaha!

I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense....great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you'd say, 'at my level'. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.

....and how do you manage those speeds?

A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.

Waaay out of my field of moderate expertise. Rock it tho!

Learning and experimenting with things

This is the part I really love.

Do you get a lot of latency with Tailscale?

Can relate.

Use Watchtower. You'll miss out on this pleasure though.

I don't feel so weird now that I see a lot of people who have the same guilty pleasures.

Maybe it's a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.

Why do I like to watch them? Can't explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I'm just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it's mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.

ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you'll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so......

Do you feel guilty if I’d asked you about that?

Yeah I probably would because I spend a lot of time watching it, blocking new threats and unwanted guests. My goal is to achieve the cleanest stream possible.