BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 27 days agoMy setup for using Pi-hole outside my homeaxel.leroy.shexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down13
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minus-squarejustinthegeek@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days ago“It incurs additional battery usage.“ Does it? I always use a vpn on my phone and laptop and it’s not even measurable. Sure there’s gonna be more CPU usage, but with hardware acceleration and whatnot it’s almost nothing.
minus-squareBlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days agoThis is anecdotal experience, but last time I left Wireguard on for an entire day and it accounted for 5% of battery usage that day.
minus-squarejustinthegeek@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·25 days ago Fair enough, this is 10 days of usage for me always being on.
minus-squarenumanair@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·22 days agoMine is so low it says “no usage”.
“It incurs additional battery usage.“
Does it? I always use a vpn on my phone and laptop and it’s not even measurable. Sure there’s gonna be more CPU usage, but with hardware acceleration and whatnot it’s almost nothing.
This is anecdotal experience, but last time I left Wireguard on for an entire day and it accounted for 5% of battery usage that day.
Fair enough, this is 10 days of usage for me always being on.
Mine is so low it says “no usage”.