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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Same LOL, I just wanted to snag Postal 2 DRM-free. Oh well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 18 years, a surprise Half-Life 2 update makes it once again possible to beat a honking train on Highway 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even know there was a switch version

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting it up and running was pretty easy but admittedly I’m starting to hit some snags with split DNS and Authentik. Totally doable but taking a lot of work for sure.

  In the process I’m also moving my entire domain to a different name and got timed out by letsencrypt lmao so I guess I’ll try some more tomorrow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I went with a Racknerd debian 12 box, DigitalOcean is a bit overpriced for what you get. There’s a whole list of recommendations in Pangolin’s wiki iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The variant version of number 2, which is more work to set up of course, is Pangolin on a VPS. Basically serves the same purpose but skips Cloudflare entirely.

  I’m in the process of setting up Pangolin and Headscale on a VPS to expose a small handful of services and to replace my wg-easy setup. Currently chaining wg-easy through a gluetun container, so with a single VPN connection I get LAN access and protect my outbound traffic, but I can’t for the life of me get the same setup working on wg-easy v15, so I’m going to give tailscale/headscale a try with a gluetun exit node.

• Looking for guidance on safely exposing services
  Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨3⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom remote backup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how much you use it. Since I don’t use mine for media, mostly for configs and service data folders, I barely scratch 120GB and I’m little paying under a dollar a month for it right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom remote backup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This scenario is why my offsite backup is primarily a backblaze b2 bucket, while also running a large media backup to an external HDD once a month which I keep in a storage unit. Janky but effective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different backup solutions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure about other options but Backrest has worked wonderfully for me since day 1. Basically just a GUI for Restic. My only complaints are that jobs can’t be assigned to multiple repos and you can’t edit a job’s name or repo once created. Aside from those quirks, it works fine - I have daily, weekly, monthly, and manual jobs set up across both servers and my desktop, basically just set it and forget it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just recently started routing mine through a gluetun container, but now I’m hitting timeouts pretty consistently. Not sure if there’s a solution to that or just deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a way with words LOL

  I respect it but it’s not for me. It feels very defined for one hand size in particular, thing gives me cramps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam controller was ahead of its time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. The thing was neat and innovative, but missing the dpad and right stick really brought it down significantly imo. The steam deck got it right - the trackpads are incredibly useful when used as a supplementary feature, but rarely as a full replacement for traditional inputs. Plus the form factor. Dear god the thing was MASSIVE. Incredibly uncomfortable to use and such an awkward shape.

  Here’s hoping the leaks come to fruition, because a 2.0 version based on the Deck would be 10/10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to combat large amounts of Ai scrapers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’d consider blocking out both the bots and AI-users a win-win lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin over the internet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started my homelab with a couple exposed services, but frankly the security upkeep and networking headaches weren’t worth the effort when 99% of this server’s usage is at home anyway.

  I’ve considered going the Pangolin route to expose a handful of things for family but even that’s just way too much effort for very little added value (plus moving my reverse proxy to a VPS doesn’t sound ideal in case the internet here goes down).

  Getting 2 or 3 extra folks on to wireguard as necessary is just much easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just blocked hexbear⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Horseshoe theory isn’t real lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon is delayed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, I get that. It’s not exactly something you can copyright. But when the entire art style heavily leverages stolen assets, that’s not a good look - I imagine they’re stuck redoing nearly everything from scratch just so they can be sure to remove anything that was stolen.

  I have zero faith in anything Bungie does though until Pete Parsons bites the curb and the studio becomes developer-owned though so I’m sure something will slip through the cracks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marathon is delayed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually almost surprised they didn’t just pull it entirely after this. It’s not like it’s just one or two assets, the entire goddamn art style ripped off that artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access homeserver through VPN + route traffic with mullvad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I feel like v15 released a bit too early outside of preview builds. It’s a substantial improvement but doesn’t feel quite ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Access homeserver through VPN + route traffic with mullvad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done exactly this with wg-easy.

  My config here is for v14, you’ll want to pin the image version: github.com/qdm12/gluetun/discussions/1192#discuss…

  In the same thread, someone posted a fantastic guide to get it working with v15: blog.bktus.com/en/archives/2918/

  V15 was giving me issues because it didn’t allow you to disable ipv6, but apparently the latest edge builds do. I haven’t tried that yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t day D4 is a good game but I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. I stopped playing right after VoH came out, and the direction that expansion was taking the game didn’t interest me, but it was a fun time overall. Not a very deep game though and endgame was basically non-existent since everything falls over at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I started with Shadowkeep and I got sucked in hard for 5 years. The first year or two I heard these sorts of negative comments here and there, mostly from long-term players, but didn’t think much of it.

  Fast forward to this past year, and Revenant is what made me say fuck it and drop the game entirely. I was already sick of the state of the game, powercreep to hell and back, pvp in the dumpster, nonexistent loot, etc etc. But jesus that season was eye-opening.

  I was also a major completionist - near max triumph score, never missed a day 1 raid from DSC onwards til unfortunate scheduling fucked our SE run, every GM soloed to that point, shit like that. Missing that one single season and a couple shitty little time-limited events was enough to feel like I’d fallen behind, and that was it. Booted up the game once since to check out Heresy, activity was the same shit as always, loot was dogshit, so I checked out right away.

  And that’s just the gameplay gripes. Bungie as a studio is toxic as fuck in so many ways and I can never in good conscience support them again.

  It took a few years but I finally understand what people were telling me way back when I started.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even TF2 gave special cosmetics and stuff to existing players when it went F2P ages ago. It’s a standard practice at this point. I sunk 12k hours into D2 until I quit it for good this past fall, and looking back I swear I just notice more and more red flags like this that I hadn’t thought too much about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, but personally I have no need to expose anything and would rather avoid the security headaches and such that come with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well a VPS or an exposed service, but I feel like the latter ends up somewhat defeating the purpose anyway.

  When running locally (not exposed), it worked great until I tried to make the initial connection from mobile data - can’t establish a connection to headscale if it can’t reach it in the first place. Unless I’m mistaken, the headscale service needs to be publicly accessible in some way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided to experiment a bit with Headscale when the wg-easy v15 update broke my chained VPN setup. Got it all set up with Headplane for a UI, worked amazingly, until I learned I was supposed to set it all up on a VPS instead and couldn’t actually access it if I wasn’t initially on my home network, oops.

  I might play around with it again down the road with a cheap VPS, didn’t take long to get it going, but realistically my setup’s access is 95% me and 5% my wife so Wireguard works fine (reverted back to wg-easy v14 until v15 allows disabling ipv6 though, since that seemed to be what was causing the issues I’ve been seeing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Juggling a lot at once right now.

  • Been working on platinums/100% for every single RGG game since Feb last year. Currently on Yakuza 2 (HD PS3 port since it actually has trophies but is entirely in Japanese lmao) and Kurohyou 1. Kurohyou 2 and Kenzan are the last games left after these.

  • Deltarune Ch 3 and 4 are gonna eat up a LOT of time this week and next

  • Sunk 20 hours into Nightreign, still haven’t beaten the first big boss because matchmaking is a nightmare. Might revisit this when some friends actually want to run it for once idk. Fun game but one bad teammate can fuck the whole run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I set this up since this reply and it’s phenomenal, what a difference compared to the old way. Thanks a ton for the rec

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot of my current game! Lies of P⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After trying Code Vein because of similar hype and dropping it 2 hours in, I expected the same from this game, but goddamn it’s phenomenal. Absolutely worth playing through. It feels like a love letter to Fromsoft, rather than trying to just do what they do - the inspiration is obvious, but it still feels like its own unique thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better music management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shit I hadn’t heard of this one. Soularr feels kind of like a hack and is annoying to wrangle, so a direct integration would be huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TRUE, I knew I was forgetting something else