Willdrick

Finally got “king of kings” achievement on 9kings. And it’s been so long since I played it that I found that it now has multiplayer, a proper campaign and an upcoming 10th king.

Seems like I’m not crossing this one off my backlog yet!

Back then the grineer spoke English and made “your mom” jokes.

Other than that, there were some serious issues with monetization, like the mod capacity being halved if you didn’t shell out plat for the catalysts

Definetly don’t need to go all in, you can start with a few LXCs from the community scripts

Biggest advantage for me is not having to juggle with ports or modify stuff that I already have running to try something new. Each LXC gets its own IP so I can start a new copy of let’s say Jellyfin to tinker with, and use what I learned to fix/improve my running instance.

Another really neat thing is how it handles backups. I have my LXCs on their own ZFS subvolumes and I back them up sporadically to external drives (cold storage). Backups start as a single big file but all the subsequent are way smaller, and checking and restoring them is a 2-click endeavour.

It looks corporate and intimidating, but it has an awesome community and you don’t need to learn all the bells and whistles to get a lot out of it

Started with the beta of CasaOS, really welcoming discord community and all, but when I went from a busted laptop to a purpose-built machine, I dove into the deep end and went with Proxmox.

It can be daunting at first with all that lingo but there are plenty of good tutorials. Can’t recommend enough. Also as a gap closer, there’s proxmox community scripts, which are great to spin new LXCs to tinker with and learn/try new stuff without annoying the family with downtime

No need, you can create a password protected link that you can share so anybody can get in as a named guest. I host my own NC instance using the AIO docker since 2020 and since last year we’ve been using spreed (aka NC Talk). I manually added friends and family (each group with their own ACL rules) but also keep a live invite link for casual friends that might hop on a call every now and then. Password is just a safety measure so I don’t have randos joining the call/chat

This! I’d say that the best we can do is educate. Over the last 20 years people got taught to be lazy and go with the herd. They don’t want to change, all their stuff is already “in the cloud” and “I don’t have time to go tinker with that nerd stuff, I need something that works”.

“Why learn a new messaging app if everyone is using WhatsApp already”

– some of my friends and acquaintances 2025

We’ve spent last few months playing Enshrouded. The dedicated server is a resource hog tho, even on an empty server it’d use a ton of CPU time. Still lots of fun with a few friends exploring and building stuff

Trackmania can be self hosted? I’d love a friends-only score board and custom track rotations

Jellyfin user here, glad I dodged the bullet when I had to pick between it and plex.

Tl;dr you want something like plex to:

• manage your media files for you
• get metadata for extra features (eg. show me similar movies, select an actor from the cast and see all your media with that actor, etc)
• track your watch progress
• play on several devices (tv, mobile, pcs consoles)
• transcode media to a compatible format for your client device
• share your media library with your family
• get notified of related media being released (new season of a show or new movie onba series)

And the biggest one for me

• tidy up ripped dvd/br movie collection, download missing CC or subtitles
• create a self-hosted alternative to shitty subscription services