What was involved to fix the rrod out of curiosity ? I had it happen 2 times. After the second time it was out of warrenty so i just bailed and got a ps3 instead, as it had free online at the time too.

Spotify started with piracy.

The ip shouldnt change unless the server is down for a period of time and the ip is dynamic.

If it is returning OK then it sounds like duckdns is working as intended

I have been using duckdns for a few years without issues. It should be simple enough , just set up a cron job with your details as listed on their site where you configure it. This keeps your dns entry up to date.

If you want a quick and easy way to share the odd file you could set up a syncthing shared folder and COPY things in to it that you want to share. When the other side MOVES them out of the shared folder they will be removed from the shared folder on your side.

The advantage of this is security. No access is given to your system. If your friends box is compromised you dont have an nfs mount or ssh key on their machine. The worst that can be done to you is copies in the shared folder are removed or malicious files are placed in the shared folder but they wont be able to execute.

You also dont need to open any ports for syncthing , it will use relays if it cant make a direct connection.

Enshittification intensifies

Fuckers.

Well i have the rp as i only want one port exposed. I have separate networks per service too to isolate things. Only the things that need to talk to each other can.

My stuff is only accessible on the lan and via the vpn and even then only certain ips have access to certain things.

In your case it might be different , but generally a reverse proxy is better as you can have a single point of access to secure and you are not exposing all of your ports to the host or the internet.

You can use a ddns such as duckdns or host on github pages with jekyll or something

Debian on the host and everything else in containers

I have the arr stack connected to gluetun doing its thing and then wireguard on the host. I only expose my reverse proxy to the host and can connect to the services through that.

Note the networks below, vpn_net allows it to talk to the gluetun network which has the other stuff. The gluetun and arr stuff are in a separate compose file that defines the network. Then the non vpn stuff connects to that network when it comes up

nginx: 
    image: nginx:1.25.4-alpine-slim
    container_name: nginx
    restart: always
    volumes:
       - /etc/letsencrypt/:/etc/letsencrypt/
       - ./nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx
       - ./nginx/conf/:/etc/nginx/conf.d/:ro
       - ./nginx/htpasswd:/etc/apache2/.htpasswd:ro
       -  /var/log/nginx:/var/log/nginx/
       - ./www/html/:/var/www/html/:ro
       - ./content/Movies:/var/www/media/Movies:ro
       - ./content/Shows:/var/www/media/Shows:ro
    ports:
       - 443:443
    security_opt:
      - no-new-privileges
    networks:
      - reverse-proxy_service1
      - reverse-proxy_serviceN
      - vpn-stack_vpn-net
    depends_on:
      - service1
      - serviceN

I do monthly backups with cron and tar and syncthing for my containers.

I do quarterly backups of my server (14TB) to external USB HDDs. This is done via a script that mounts the drives, runs rsync to copy, then unmounts the drives again and emails me when it is done. I dont bother encrypting them as it ia mainly just media.

He can go suck a lemon

Looks great! Well done

I wonder how long it will be until they see elected representatives as inefficient. 🙄

They should threaten to leave the UK in response.

Sure if you browse by github but in my use of the site over the years I go to the repo from the webpage of the project or from another source such as a link from a blog or something.

Personally I just throw my roms in directories and serve them from nginx. Its easier to just pull them down on deck that way and requires no extra effort or maintenance on my end.

Everything else is on steam.

They must have something to hide 🤨

Imagine paying for an OS to have ads in it. 🐃💩

Thankfully we have Linux/BSD

It doesn’t matter that you can disable it, this stuff shouldn’t be in the OS in the first place