While democracy burns, democrats do absolute dick.

Can’t you just vpn to another vpn ?

Won’t even have to. Just use any VPN provider outside of Italy that doesn’t have to comply with Italian law. lol.

I’ve been pirating a long time. Not once have I been inconvenienced by any anti-Piracy measure. There’s always another way around.

We didn’t inhale, so it’s not illegal for us. ~ZuckFuck

Email is like, the worst possible option. Check out Apprise. Super easy to setup Telegram or Discord notifications via webhooks. Takes like a minute.

Yes, but you won’t have access to most of its features other than just typing. Since you’re using Graphene and Google Play/Google Play Services are sandboxed cutting network permissions from Gboard should be enough to completely disable its phone to home.

Yes.

If you need a tutorial on how to install pen-testing tools, it’s probably best you just don’t install them…

From literally the same thread: https://lemm.ee/comment/14867214

lol ok.

we stole this AI model because it’s cheap and works great and we totally “took out all the bad stuff.” Come buy API tokens. lelz.

Forgejo. ♥

Github uses its own proprietary platform which it resells, Github Enterprise.

Gitlab uses a FOSS alternative engine, but IMO it’s super heavy for 90% of use cases.

Forgejo checks all the right boxes. Lightweight. FOSS. Still not convinced? Check out Gitea.

Now to guess which ones will still be maintained in 5 years 😆

If you figure it out, lemme know. lol

That’s… Interesting. I’ve been using Ventoy professionally for like… 2-3 years now and I’ve not once had an issue with daily use. Unironically like 2500-3000 uses without issue.

Generally Ventoy is better than both. Choose a dedicated flash storage, flash Ventoy to it, then click and drag as many ISO’s as can fit on your drive and you can boot from any one of them at any time.

Much better than Etcher or Rufus, IMO.

Here ya go: https://selfh.st/apps/

Will cover about 90% of your bases there. You can even look up proprietary software and it will show you self-hostable alternatives.

My goto would be wireguard, is that still a good option?

Yes.

Private cloud/File server

https://selfh.st/apps/?tag=File+Sharing

Is a local video streaming app actually useful for a rare watcher of movies etc, or can they be streamed directly from the file server?

You can do it any number of ways. I have it setup a pretty cool way, I think. I leave my PC on all the time. I also have a home NAS with all my media files on it. I host Jellyfin server on my PC and in the Jellyfin settings link to the network location of the files (\\nas\media\tv, etc). Works great, especially for transcoding because I run the server on my Windows PC, it gets access to my GPU for transcoding. Really great setup I like to think. Only drawback being you have to leave your PC on all the time, which doesn’t bother me.

Is Docker the way to go for everything? or just install on the machine directly?

There are alternatives to docker, like LXC but they’re not as widely used as Docker. So unfortunately…

Another option for you could be Hyper-V if you don’t mind using your PC to run containers. I like it better than running docker containers.

12ft.io usually works for me.

You’re not having issues because it’s very likely it’s limited by your ISP regardless. There’s simply no way a consumer ISP (or VPN) is allowing 1200 simultaneous UDP connections. So you could likely set it to a million and have no issues. Because you’re being limited to ~250-500 at the protocol level by your ISP/VPN. lol

Situations like this, torrent priority is even more important because there’s a high likelihood you’re not able to connect to peers you otherwise would be able to if you were using priorities…

Love Rossman and his analogies. lol

If you agree with Louis but don’t know how to setup something as complicated as pfBlocker-NG, you can try other DNS (DoH/3) based adblocking which IMO is just as effective;

Light + TIF                     https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAQA
Normal + TIF                https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAgA
Pro + TIF                 https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACBAA
Pro plus + TIF               https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACAgA
Ultimate + TIF              https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:gAgACABA

Light + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000048  
Normal + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000028  
Pro + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000018  
Pro plus + TIF               https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000o  
Ultimate + TIF              https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000804  

Light                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-light
Normal                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-normal
Pro                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-pro  
Pro plus                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-proplus  
Ultimate                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-ultimate
TIF                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-tif

Not sure how to use dnscrypt-proxy to set up DoH/3 resolution? Check out the only software I’ve ever recommended anyone ever pay for: YogaDNS

Swapping DoH/3 providers is as simple as adding them, and setting a routing rule. Hell, your router may even be DoH/3 compatible and you’ll be able to set this network wide.

Test it out.

Matching 500 episodes (e.g. Looney Tunes and Disney shorts) manually isnt fun.

With tools like TinyMediaManager, why in the absolute fuck would you do it manually?

At this point, it sounds like you’re just bad at media management more than anything. 1080p h265 video is at most between 1.5-2GB per video. That means with even a modest network connection speed (500Mbps lets say) you can realistically download 5TB of data over 24 hours… You can redownload your entire media library in less than 4-5 days if you wanted to.

So why spend ~$700 on 2 20TB drives, one to be used only as redundancy, when you can simply redownload everything you previously had (if you wanted to) for free? It’ll just take a little bit of time.

Complete waste of money.

You can stream your primary sound driver via icecast and then on another machine use ffmpeg to record it? ffmpeg -i http://server:port -c copy output.mp3.

I dunno. This all seems super roundabout.