Ansible’s not all that bad. The alternatives are far more complicated.

Jeff geerling has a bunch of videos on ansible 101.

It’s only difficult when you’re first figuring it out. Once you do, it’s not a big deal.

I’ve been using Photoshop and Gimp a lot over the last decade. There are a few things I like better in Photoshop and nothing I really like more in Gimp, but they’re both absolutely serviceable.

I wish content-aware patch came by default in Gimp and I wish Gimp had more user-friendly macroing, but if I’m drawing circles in my photo editor, my first thought is why the hell am I not using a vector editor.

Ansible if you want to do it the right way.

Or keep all of your configs in one tree and use syncthing on it If you want to phone it in. Turn on versioning call it a night.

I ran tdarr for a while, eventually I found for most things that it was faster (and better quality) to re-download in better formats than to re-encode.

I keed I keed

S***, I’ve been meaning to learn Rust but didn’t know where to start, thanks

You get some coverage for free but if you’re really getting slammed I wish to stay up they’re not going to do everything for free. I believe They click here to prove you’re not a butt is gratis.

The DMZ is the right idea. But it’s the old way. You definitely want whatever is serving your website to be separated out from your house. You’re hosting should be on an isolated VLAN. The internet should only be able to talk to the server it needs to talk to, no other ports. That box should only be allowed to talk to what it absolutely must talk to and only on the ports that are required. You should run an independent firewall on each one of the boxes that are involved in the hosting with only the proper ports open.

Giving up your private IP Will definitely give away your general location to everyone and your precise location to the authorities.

I would highly recommend using cloudflare or one of the other funnel options. A lot of people don’t like cloud flare because they can capitalize on your traffic, The cloudflare also just won’t shut you down and sell you out like your ISP will at the first request, They don’t do shit about anything until there’s a warrant or a court filing. On the upside you don’t give out your private IP to anyone. You have DDOS protection, and a reasonable layer of anominity.

You need to check daily to make sure all of your software is updated. We’re talking OS, middleware, plugins, application. Preferably via automation. All of the software and plugins you use for this type of hosting end up getting vulnerabilities.

Security is especially difficult on forums. There’s lots of opportunities there for skilled people who are pissed off at what you or someone else is saying to get butthurt. People know exactly what you’re running, then they do some magic behind the scenes next thing you know there’s a bunch of admins you didn’t create.

You don’t need to be hosting your own email but you are going to need an SMTP provider, most free services won’t let you masquerade the from address.

It’s hard to read because people lack background knowledge. Man pages were horrible for my first 15 years or so.

Once you have the skills that you hardly need to read them they’re fine.

That’s why everyone wants to look it up on stack exchange, they want the answer, not an unending series of lessons

Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.

Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.

Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.

I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.

Flawless opsec is a lot, but at least for now, it’s not how they are finding people.

It’s tips and borders at the moment. If it becomes police action as well you just have to make sure you’re not noticed by the police.

We’re probably not all that far off of papers please.

Okay, I can work with this. Hey Altman you can train on anything that’s public domain, now go take those fuck ton of billions and fight the copyright laws to make public domain make sense again.