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2.5 Admins 306: WiFi Cable

July 2, 2026 · 28 min

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Why setting up commercial email and VPN services is incredibly hard, avoiding TrueNAS’s move from FreeBSD to Linux, why we avoid virtualising storage systems, and bridging WiFi to an external building.

 

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Jeff Moss explains why setting up private email and VPN services are so difficult

 

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