always on they wouldnt know about it and if the connection failed or the wg service crashed on their phone then the services wouldn’t work. It adds a complexity that you don’t want when you’re trying to pass the wife test. Plus yes battery.
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Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 11 months agoIs always on not an option?
gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 11 months ago
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 11 months ago
no wireguard should not decrease batterylife (see my other comment) we use wg eith always on without any problems. sometimes it stops on one phone but l9oking for the key icon and clicking the action button in the navigationcontrolmenuthingy is quite easy
ipipip@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
Always on wireguard kills battery life on mobile for me so I guess that’s a no.
ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 11 months ago
that should not be the case because wireguard only ‘runs’ when it sends or receives packets. try setting the keepalive time a bit higher, 5 minutes maybe.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 11 months ago
It also breaks android auto for me.