Honestly not having a static public ip address would be a dealbreaker for me, reason to change isp.
But thats not always an option.
My old isp got a new ip every full modem reboot and a way i used to circumvent this is with duckdns. It’s a free dns service i used before i had money to pay for my own domain.
If i recall correctly they have a desktop tool that connects to your account that scans for your current dynamic public ip and then updates it for your freesubdomainname.duckdns.org which is what you use to connect.
"I agree with a lot of the people who get mad about the DLC approach. I don't really like the Icarus approach. We needed it to survive," he said. "I actually think a lot of gamers don't realize that 99% of devs out there are sitting there going, 'I don't like this.'”
Game devs so often get public flack for decisions outside their control i really wanted to highlight this part
I never heard if twingate but i see no reason why not to selfhost Wireguard.
Its a proven open source vpn.
As far as a little research went. Twingate is proprietary software and caters to enterprises, it has some open source alternatives that have a similar functionality. Most if them using Wireguard under the hood. Look for tailscale/headscale or netbird.
Few things are so normal and natural as a human consuming substances that change their conscious perception and mind.
Caffeine, often forgotten is by far the most consumed drug in the world being used by roughly 85% of people globally.
“First coffee, then work” is a testimonial to how benign this fact is.
But what if you don't like caffeine, what if you simply prefer the effects of something else?
It’s your body, no one should be able to tell an adult what they can do with their own body and mind.
Just be conscious about it.
Know what you are taking.
Understand why you take it.
Study, learn what it actually does and how different doses/methods affect you.
Find how it does not affect you, what it can’t fix.
Look for help when you need it and don't feel shameful for asking such. You are human after all.
Turns out my “quantum superposition rifts” where certain spaces (biomes) exist in multiple locations at once allowing seemless passing between worlds, are not as original as i thought.
Well i don’t know how Dan Simmons
Explained the science behind it but in effect it would end up very similar.
Virtual private network,i know, i know, but i just wrote the wrong thing on accident.
Since its been up for so long feels dishonest to change it. I am owning up to my mistakes and my sentiment that the post is about providers only still stands.
Honestly i wish these kind of vpns had a different name.
Wireguard isnt even on the list and its entirely free, but also it doesn’t serve this same purpose.
Vpn stands for private personal network, selfhosted vpns do exactly that, i can use my
Phone to connect to all my home services which replace expensive subscriptions without actually exposing those services to the net or requiring a domain for them.
Vpns are amazing, but most people i know irl that use them barely understand what they are or what they can be used for.
I regret not including this as an option now but I contemplated adding this part:
The majority of our (subjective-my) internet nowadays follows patterns of the same places, new places are often found on the old places.
Most of my sites are bookmarked trusted websites. (Increasingly more self hosted also) wikipedia for facts, wolfram alpha for math, sites i have an account on.
Part of the crux is when is the last time you googled in the hope to find a new website you don’t already know yet? Even ads direct you using QR.
I find i rarely need a search engine anymore and when often when i do i can’t find anything anyway. Stuff has gotten so buried under search engine optimisation you are better of using ai for a first responds to obtain the terminology to search for how wrong ai got it then by searching for a question directly.
Duckduck is just a wrapper for bing (and gives microsoft trackers a free pass)
Startpage is a similar thing that uses google. Considering how hated bing is believe Duck only got more popular because of privacy marketing.
The safest alternative is running your own searxng client, it still relies on bing and google but at least you can verify that its actually stopping all trackers.
To explain what proxmox is its basicly virtualisation software, it can run vms but also lxc (light linux containers) and share resources very efficiently between all of them
Jellyfin, radarr, sonar. They are all included in the helper scripts, each will be a dedicated lxc.
Its also very easy to setup raid and there own storage format is very efficient.
Its well documented to the point that any decent llm can help you learn whatever you need. In fact its claude that helped me
setup my own proper raid on proxmox, also tought me about datasets and how i can make those available to different lxc
Personally i am very hands off with my server, the hardest part is often choosing what ip i want to give a service, i rarely update or mess with it if not strictly necessary.
For hardware i recommend plenty of ram (can
Be bought and installed seperatly), more cores is usually better and internal graphics can save you some hassle depending on what you are doing (also allows you to dedicate a
Big gpu to some services).
A warning on second hand corporate machines, the performance is often good
But quite fans are often an afterthought. I onxe got a beast of machine for free but you could hear it spin from anywhere in my house.
A good practical case is always a blessing when you need to check the insides.
Look you seem sincere but lost, the vast majority of people here are atheists and will not take kindly to advise to study some religious book they never heard of.
There is no point in asking people why they choose to go to hell because they don’t believe in it (or any afterlife). And this does not stop them from trying to live good ethical lives either.
Depends what you consider the baseline to call something “coding”
Plenty of kids dabble with Redstone in Minecraft, there is also stuff like this: