kylian0087

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Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

kylian0087 ,

If you are afraid of being ddosed which is very unlikely. Cloudflare has free ddos protection. You can put some but not all things behind their proxy.

Also instead of making things publicly available look in to using a VPN. Wireguard with "wireguard easy" makes this very simple.

VLANs do not make you network magically more secure. But when setup correctly can increase security a load if something has already penetrated the network. But also just to streamline a network and allow or deny some parts of the network.

kylian0087 ,

I looked at headscale but as far as I can tell their is no active directory or SSO integration. Which is very unfortunate.

kylian0087 ,

Why not use a combined library if I may ask? This would be similar to things like Spotify or tidal but then self hosted.

kylian0087 ,

They can also make playlist for them self. And hey as a bonus they might discover other songs they like.

Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

kylian0087 , (edited )

I prefer the opposite. I want the best quality I can get often 4K remux. Storage is cheap nowadays and I don't mind waiting a few days for a movie to download. Also I do have a 500/500 connection which helps.

kylian0087 ,

Oppenheimer 80+ GB 😅

kylian0087 ,

the reason why arch gets recommend a lot as a gaming distro is that it is bleeding edge. Their for has very up to date drivers and parches that can help gaming. But with the current state of gaming on Linux this is a bit less of a requirement. most distros are new enough for most games. Exception might be debian LTS or something.

So i totaly agree that choosing something other then arch for gaming is a good option if you are rather new to linux.

kylian0087 ,

I never said bleeding edge wouldn't work. But bleeding edge comes with its own complications that might not be suited for a newbie

kylian0087 ,

Free and much better look up I2P

kylian0087 ,

Steam has mostly fixed the "service" issue compared to something like streaming services. One place to get almost any and all games. One account to access it all. Very simple for the end user. And does a load for the community as well. Take a look at proton for a example.

kylian0087 ,

Ports below 1000 or something are reserved for root by default.

kylian0087 ,

Yes. And also ease of use plus much better quality.

kylian0087 ,

Factory reset upgrade prevents a reset by a thief

This is such a annoyance I hat this happen on a tablet once. Didn't know the login of it anymore and i hat to do some trickery to get it reset.

Mirror all data on NAS A to NAS B

I'm duplicating my server hardware and moving the second set off site. I want to keep the data live since the whole system will be load balanced with my on site system. I've contemplated tools like syncthing to make a 1 to 1 copy of the data to NAS B but i know there has to be a better way. What have you used successfully?

kylian0087 ,

I suggest to use sftp/ssh instead. Much more secure then FTP.

kylian0087 ,

To add to this. Take a look at the fog server project. It allows you to PXE boot and pull and push images in a automated way.

kylian0087 ,

Personally I am using rocky Linux. I wonder how the 2 compare nowadays

kylian0087 ,

You have been free for a while then i suppose.

kylian0087 ,

It is a entire ERP/CMS suite. It might be to big for most when starting out. However, it allows for growth with the buisness.

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don't believe I will have any legal trouble because I don't do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

kylian0087 ,

Use I2P guys. The more the better. It is Foss and is 100 times better then any VPN. It is only a bit slower sometimes.

kylian0087 ,

I believe Germany is working on that. Recently they have started to migrate 30K systems or so from windows to Linux.

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