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A quotation from Douglas Adams

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humourist, screenwriter
Dirk Gently, No. 1, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, ch. 4 [Richard] (1987)

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Finally got my new home router/firewall: TLSense N100L4: 4x 2.5Gbit LAN, N100 CPU, 256GB NVMe SSD, 16GB RAM ( from teklager.se h/t to @meriksson )

This bad boy has already caused me to rethink my life choices and whether or not I'm sane. They who said firewall rules, NATs and such is fun and games should... be sent to the principals office.

But... having now spent a significant amount of time configuring I'm starting to get things into a state that I'm happy with. Multi-WLAN, WireGuard based interfaces, selective routing and all those other fun things.

And I still have absolutely no clue about what reflective NAT is, or whatever all those 513 other settings do... but perhaps it's like DSLR cameras... you mostly use auto and convince yourself that you'll learn that other stuff eventually...

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