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For the last decade or so, my SO and I have been more or less dividing our expenses, and Venmo/ PayPal-ing the other as needed (rent, etc).

I know a lot of couples use a shared account that they both contribute to via direct deposit. How many of you do this? Any drawbacks or other options I haven’t mentioned?

For someone in their 30s, does the following allocations make sense? The goal is to have a fair amount of diversity and to more or less “set it and forget it”

55% VG INST 500 IDX 35% VG INTL STOCK IDX 10% VG TOT BD MKT IDX

I’m wondering if maybe there should be less in International and more in one of the other two, etc

I recently had my Proxmox host fail, so I re-installed and recovered all my VMs from backups.

I'm noticing that my file structure (this is on my NAS where Proxmox mounts it via SMB/CIFS) has some duplicate folders in it. The ones I highlighted are all empty. Is this normal? Can these be removed safely?

When charging a phone wirelessly, there is sometimes significant heat generated. That combined with higher charging rates that are now coming out with the Qi 2 standard make me wonder what the ideal charge for the battery would be.

Most of the time I just toss my phone onto a wireless charger before bed, and don’t really care how quickly it charges. Would it be better to use a 5W brick with a charging pad? Should wireless be avoided and usb used instead?

I see a lot of guides on setting up DoH (DNS over HTTPS) using things like cloudflared, but not many concrete ones on DoT (DNS over TLS).

Does anyone have any guides they'd recommend?

I am getting used to Ubiquiti, and recently added a VPN Client to cover one of my VLANs. Am I correct in my understanding that having no Fallback option is essentiall a Kill switch that will not allow traffic to pass outside of the VPN in the event it goes down?

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I recently started playing with UDM after having been in PFSense for the last few years. In PFSense, I had a pretty organized rule set for each VLAN, and it was pretty easy to read and follow compared to the single list for rules in UDM (though it makes up for it in other areas).

I'm trying to recreate some of my original rules and flows, but wanted to get another pair of eyes on them to be sure I am using "LAN In" and "LAN Out" correctly (especially on the rules where I try to only allow necessary devices/ ports out to WAN).

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Just joined the club and got my first piece of ubiquiti gear! I spent some time doing the initial configuration and adding my VLANs, static IPs, however I ran into a bit of an issue that I'm sure is a quick fix.

By default the UDM Pro is on 192.168.1.1, and that's fine. I actually use the 192.168.1.0/24 as a management VLAN for networking devices that other VLANs don't need access to.

The problem I'm running into is that this default space that the UDM Pro is on does not have an option for a VLAN tag. I can change the IP of the default network to be something else like 192.168.100.0/24, and make a management VLAN on 192.168.1.0/24, but then the UDM Pro will grab a 192.168.100.0/24 address (since it is on the default network).

How, after doing this, can I set the UDM Pro to be on this new management VLAN and not the default?

I've been using PFSense for years, and it's been pretty great, but I also have some friends who are homelabbers that like their Unifi setups.

What do you guys prefer, and why?

I've been running Valetudo on my Roborock S5 for some time with no issues. Recently I decided to change the voice pack, so I used the option in the Valetudo GUI, however noticed that most of the packs advertised for the S5 just do not upload. The ones that do don't seem to have full coverage, and leave a lot of the default voice lines (Chinese) in tact.

These packs from dontvacuum.me and this GlaDOS voice pack do not upload at all, and when I check the logs in Valetudo there's just a generic error that provides no real detail.

These packs will upload, but do not provide full coverage, and most are not English.

Does anyone know how to get these logs to work via the GUI? I don't have SSH access to my vacuum anymore and I don't feel like going through the initial steps again if I don't have to.

Some friends of mine have a Google map going where they pin locations of interest (restaurants, etc).

I was wondering if anyone knew of a non-Google project that might allow for something similar? The goal would be to have a shareable map that a group of invited/ allowed users could add locations and possibly notes to.

My employer recently switched to Fidelity and for now I've chosen the LIFEPATH IDX 2050 A option. It looks like this one provides quarterly dividends, but the yield is 0.0%(?)

I'm looking for some fairly risk adverse options or blends that provide dividends that will be reinvested. Anyone have any recommendations?