Shimitar

joined 6 months ago
[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 22 points 6 months ago (21 children)

You should always setup logrotate. Yes the good old Linux logrotate...

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 6 months ago

The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option...

residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I have documented my journey here: https://wiki.gardiol.org/

On short, rent a vps and setup wireguard, then start self hosting everithing you can put yours hands on!!

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 6 months ago

Daily toward all my three locations:

  • local on the server
  • in-house but on a different device
  • offsite

But not all three destinations backup the same amount of data due to storage limitations.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 4 points 6 months ago

1 backup on a local, Independence disk. 1 backup on a HDD connected to an OpenWRT router at the other end of the house 1 backup on my remote vps.

Restic+backrest

Sftp for remote endpoint

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 6 months ago

I use and love nginx.

Maybe a bit more old fashioned than more modern solutions, but steady solid and versatile. I use it as reverse proxy ad well as proxy for php stuff and more.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 2 points 6 months ago

Laws serve the purpose of protecting ownership and owners, that defines what is lawful or not.

So, it is working as intended.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don't own the games only a license to use those games.

And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

This doesn't matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

Don't get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don't think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Mostly us stuff, never heard of one in Europe

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Running a business works better if you have a steady flow of income. I don't blame them for trying.

But I vote with my wallet.

I stick to open source apps more and more, and not only for the lack of subscriptions.

[–] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 21 points 6 months ago

I stay away from any subscription like that. It works like credit cart debt: you pile it and in no time you bleed money like no tomorrow.

I understand the need of the Dev for a reasonably guaranteed flow of money, specially for online services, but also keep a software house going cost money.

But I am free to choose where not to put my money.

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