Goodeye8

Because two is an improvement on one in almost every way?

I feel like we have pretty good concepts and tools for world gen. If games are going to use AI I’d expect the best results to be in quest systems. Most games struggle to procedurally generate good quests. They end up feeling formulaic in almost every aspect.

I imagine even if the quest structure stays the same simple “go to X and do Y” but you let AI generate a good reason to go on the quest it instantly improves the quality of procedural quests.

But that assumes AI can generate a good reason and I have my doubts about that, and a lot of other things AI supposedly can do.

And why can’t university IT set up the server? No offense but you’re a nobody asking us, also nobodies, how to set up some sort of a funky server on the university network, meanwhile the university pays people to do this for a living.

Where will the server actually be? Will it be in a secure location where only authorized personnel can physically access the machine or will it be behind the trash can in the cafeteria where anyone can access it?

Since you will lose access to it once it’s set up who will monitor the system? Who turns it on in case it somehow gets shut down? Who sets up backups and does rollbacks if something breaks?

What happens to the hardware when research project is over?

To me it all smells like something the IT department should set up. They already know the best practices. They also know whatever security guidelines they need to follow. They will have monitoring systems in place so they could admin the system instead of leaving it without an actual administrator. And they’re probably the ones decommissioning the hardware when the research project is over.

My suggestion is to leave it to the people who are getting paid to do this. It’s one thing to know how to set up a home server on your home network, it’s a different thing to set up a server on an enterprise network.

It’s hard to say what is best. It comes down to what you’re trying to achieve. For example Tailscale and Wireguard are both VPN-s, but the purpose of those two is to set up your own personal VPN so that you could securely access devices and services that are available only in your personal VPN. The difference between Tailscale and Wireguard is basically the monetary cost of having an easy setup vs the complexity of setting it up yourself. Wireguard is an open source protocol and software that allows you to set up your own VPN if you have the technical know-how how to set it up. Tailscale is built ontop of Wireguard so at its core it does what Wireguard does, but it offers easier setup at the cost of asking for money if your network starts expanding beyond the free tier.

And then there’s “VPN” which are actually VPN service providers. Some of them allow setting up your own personal VPN but more often than not they offer VPN tunneling where you securely connect your device to their VPN server to route your traffic through their servers. The purpose of that is to hide your online activity. For example if your country really cracks down on illegal torrents you pretty much have to torrent through a VPN. And another purpose is to circumvent regional laws or trademarks. For example VPN usage in the UK went up in response to the Online Safety Act because a VPN lets you circumvent those laws. And another example is if a streaming service doesn’t offer a show in your country but offers it in another country and your VPN provider has a server there you can tunnel yourself into that server and you get to see your show because technically you’re in that country.

Depending on what you’re planning on doing with your home server you might need both kind of “VPN”.

Exposing services to the web is a huge topic with a lot to consider. I could probably write an essay on this topic, but the short answer is that Wireguard is sufficient, however the setup can be pretty complex. If you have a low amount of users you can try Tailscale. It’s built ontop of Wireguard but it is much easier to set up and is free up to 3 users, but you can probably attach more users if you add all their devices under one user, which is probably fine if you trust those people and you’re going to use it only for Immich.

I would recommend starting with something simple you can understand and then look into alternatives when you get a better understanding of what your actual needs are and where your current solution starts lacking.

Since you seem to be testing a lot of different things I’m going to throw out a lot of different ideas and maybe something helps. Worst case you have to start rummaging through logs.

The most basic idea is that if its your home server it should be available on your home network. That means, unless you have some custom configurations, the IP has to be something starting with 192.168. If it’s not starting with that you’re probably way off. Someone assumed your IP starts with a 5 so it’s definitely worth checking out. And a small sidenote, in case you plan on exposing Immich to the web definitely follow their suggestions.

What else you mentioned was that you had installed Proxmox. If you’re still using Proxmox VE there are helper scripts to make your life easier. There’s a script for Immich that sets up an LXC with Immich services. It works without issues right out the box, but assigning a different upload location takes a bit tinkering. And just as a security advice, always open up the scripts and understand what they do because you should never run scripts you got from the web that you do not 100% understand.

You also mentioned docker (compose) which the recommended way to set it up according to Immich documentation. The official docker compose doesn’t seem to have anything special in it, so it should start a container on port 2283 on whatever your servers IP is. Also check if the container is running without issues when you start it up. I don’t know what you use to manage containers but a simple “docker ps” in terminal should be enough to check that the container is running and the port is properly mapped.

I don’t know what you’re running the docker container in as you mentioned different operating systems, but just in case its worth going through ufw (or whatever Firewall your system might be using) to check if there aren’t any rules that are shutting traffic down by default. There shouldn’t be any rules but if you’re stumped it’s one of those things to cross off the list.

And it’s also worthwhile to check your router, that there aren’t any firewall rules in the router that are blocking LAN traffic for whatever reason. Again shouldn’t be any in the first place, but should be crossed off just in case. And if you’re already checking the router you can also check what IP your the router has assigned to your home server to make sure you’re trying the correct IP (and you might want to consider giving it a static IP if you plan on using IP address to connect).

And final note, I’m not sure if its relevant or not but maybe try accessing it through a web browser before trying to access through the app? I remember there being some sort of a first time admin setup, but I don’t know if that was also available through the app.

Maybe something from this list of random suggestions helps you.

Which would contradict their statement:

Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

A store named “use these toys on fake dolls of children” is horribly distasteful but not illegal.

I can agree that maybe that type of content shouldn’t be sold, but I also understand that’s my personal opinion and not necessarily the law. Me, you or Visa or Mastercard should not be in a position to dictate whether it’s acceptable to sell such content.

Shamelessly plugging https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/ because if you’re going to set up an Ubuntu home server you might a well know how to use it.

I would like to be excited for a revival of an series that hasn’t seen a game in 20? years, but the trailer and the article just comes across as a bog-standard open world action game with RPG elements. They need to give something more because this doesn’t excite me at all.