Genuine question.

I’m an 80s kid and I’m cut. It’s never bothered me, my parents thought they were doing the right thing at the time.

I had a son a few years ago. We didn’t have him circumcised. We never seriously considered it, and the question never came up. If someone had have asked I would’ve been resistant.

So now the actual question: I had actually assumed that in 2025 the practice is more or less discontinued? Do doctors still do it? I thought they refused generally just because there’s no medical reason for the practice.

As to my preference I just prefer mine the way it is, but I assume that would be the case even if I were not cut.

Well, you don’t need containers for wireguard the same way you don’t need containers for anything.

I personally prefer docker containers for everything that can be containerised because it provides a consistent abstraction layer. As in, I always know how to find configurations and paths and manage network infrastructure for anything that resides in a container.

In the case I outlined above with the wireguard containers, I’m more confident I’m not going to upset any other services on my server, and I understand the configuration.

Maybe it’s a bit like using ufw to manage iptables rules, unnecessary but helpful.

Of course, I freely admit that my way is not necessarily the best way and if someone wants to run wireguard on the host then great.

Sure mate.

I’ve been playing around with networks for decades. I’ll happily admit that my understanding is rudimentary at best, but configuring routing rules with IP tables or whatever so your device will act as a NAT seems a few levels beyond “basic networking”.

that’s why you chimed in with your comment. Stupid me.

The honest to god reason I chimed in was because your response seemed derisive, and I thought I might be able to soften a bit by either showing my own ineptitude or challenging your solution.

So in summary you have your device A and services running on B, you connect to a vpn service using A, and you want the services running on B to use the same vpn connection?

I encountered this problem with torrenting and private trackers.

I solved it the other way around, by having the remote connect to the vpn and routing traffic from my device through that remote.

• get a mullvad subscription because they do wireguard
• create wireguard-outbound container on server and connect to mullvad
• create wireguard-inbound container on server and attach it to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• attach any other containers on the server you want using the vpn to the network stack of wireguard-outbound
• install wireguard on your various devices instead of connecting to mullvad directly just connect to your wireguard-inbound container

For bonus points you can create a squid (proxy service) container and attach that to wireguard-outbound, then create a firefox profile that connects to that proxy. That way your device isn’t routing all traffic through the vpn, only the traffic from that firefox profile.

I’ve had this set up for several years now and for the most part it works very well. Occasionally I have to restart the containers but for the most part it’s great.

IDK anything about “routing” but I don’t think it can solve this problem without additional services.

If my laptop is A and I want all outbound connections to go through server B then B needs to be running some kind of service whether it’s merely a NAT router or VPN or proxy.

In this case OP actually want’s B’s outbound connections to go through A but it’s the same problem.

Just trying to understand the Australian perspective on this. Maybe others can correct me.

He’s using the term “reciprocal” as a way of saying certain practices are unfair.

For example, we refuse to import raw meat products because we don’t have mad cow disease here.

We also don’t have american style healthcare, so pharmaceuticals can’t be advertised and are purchased exclusively through the federal government procurement scheme.

In response, he’s applying a 10% tariff on any Imports from Australia. I assume this is in addition to the aluminium and iron ore tariffs but I’m not sure.

We have a federal election coming up so the opinions of both major parties are relevant. Our current progressive PM says it will hurt the US more than us, that we’re not going to respond with tariffs on US products, and we do have legal recourse through our existing free trade agreement.

From here it’s hard to see this as anything other than a huge self-own by the Trump Administration. We just don’t export a lot of stuff to the US, our stock market has responded positively since the announcement. I would be absolutely gutted if the Australian government made any concessions what so ever, and I don’t think I’m alone in that. We have our fair share of MAGA idiots down under, but even they are nationalists, with families. No one here has any interest in letting Trump fuck with our health care system just so Americans pay less in tariffs.

I don’t use an “alias provider”.

I just don’t use aliases for companies I need to send emails to. There are very few.

You can usually export & import your subscriptions and bookmarks.

Mileage varies between different apps.

Many would call that faff and hassle. I’m not that attached to my subscriptions.

This. Youtube is dead to me.

Sounds like OP actually interacts on the site with comments and likes and whatever so I can’t account for that.

In my case I get by with a combination of freetube and tubearchivist. I expect that one day youtube will find a way to finally close the door on this type of freeloading. Hopefully that will provide the incentive for more people to use more platforms.

Sure ok, maybe the term “wealthy” was a poor choice.

Salespeople spend all day reading people. I’m confident they could identify a shabby looking tech bro ready to spend $40k from a leftie trying to waste their time.

I doubt the vast majority of people could actually string a car salesman along for more than a few minutes without feeling awkward and cringey.

Going to a dealership, looking at a car, talking to a sales guy, doing a test drive… you’re really only there for 45 minutes until it’s time to sign the offer or leave.

Also, sales guy is going to be reluctant to spend much time with you or take you for a drive if you don’t really look like a tesla kind of person (wealthy).