Yes, yes. Sue the guy who’s got a multinational television show, entire production team and legal support to legally shit all over people doing horrible things

You get some coverage for free but if you’re really getting slammed I wish to stay up they’re not going to do everything for free. I believe They click here to prove you’re not a butt is gratis.

The DMZ is the right idea. But it’s the old way. You definitely want whatever is serving your website to be separated out from your house. You’re hosting should be on an isolated VLAN. The internet should only be able to talk to the server it needs to talk to, no other ports. That box should only be allowed to talk to what it absolutely must talk to and only on the ports that are required. You should run an independent firewall on each one of the boxes that are involved in the hosting with only the proper ports open.

Giving up your private IP Will definitely give away your general location to everyone and your precise location to the authorities.

I would highly recommend using cloudflare or one of the other funnel options. A lot of people don’t like cloud flare because they can capitalize on your traffic, The cloudflare also just won’t shut you down and sell you out like your ISP will at the first request, They don’t do shit about anything until there’s a warrant or a court filing. On the upside you don’t give out your private IP to anyone. You have DDOS protection, and a reasonable layer of anominity.

You need to check daily to make sure all of your software is updated. We’re talking OS, middleware, plugins, application. Preferably via automation. All of the software and plugins you use for this type of hosting end up getting vulnerabilities.

Security is especially difficult on forums. There’s lots of opportunities there for skilled people who are pissed off at what you or someone else is saying to get butthurt. People know exactly what you’re running, then they do some magic behind the scenes next thing you know there’s a bunch of admins you didn’t create.

You don’t need to be hosting your own email but you are going to need an SMTP provider, most free services won’t let you masquerade the from address.

It’s your media you do what you want with it.

Pick a busy movie with a bunch of stuff going on, and then pick a really dark movie.

Try different encodings with each one of those. You’re playing a game of time versus quality. And you keep in mind, the electricity for those encodes isn’t free either.

Try them with a fixed bit rate, try them with the two pass. If the fixed rate doesn’t look good try bumping the rate up. You’ll get a feel for it eventually.

Back when I was hard up for disc, I made everything 1080p HEVC single pass constant rate. I don’t even remember exactly what the bit rate was but I would just encode everything and then watch a sample out of it. If one of them turned out bad I would reincode it with better settings.

Dual pass will get you a little smaller and better output, But it takes forever, and you’re sitting there burning watts all night long.

In the end you just need to fiddle with it, and weigh the output versus your resources.

Different people have different needs.

If someone has a lot of time and not a lot of money re encoding video is a decent answer.

I’ve been there and done that before.

Replacing (or adding a 10TB USB to your ) single 2 tb drive isn’t a horrible idea. It’ll take you quite a while to go through that 10 tb. In the meantime you look toward getting an old case and some kind of modest motherboard and setting up an Unraid. It’s a journey, and unless you are made of cash you’re not going to get to your endpoint all in one jump.

Unraid is budget friendly because you can add whatever size disc you want to do it, It supports a parity drive so you have some support against failure. The only truly difficult part is that the parity drive must be as big as the largest drive in the box.

In the end only you can decide what works for you. If you want to re-encode your stuff, 2 pass is best. You are going to lose quality, that’s unavoidable, But if you’re watching it on a TV 12 ft away, You’re going to forget about any quality as soon as you get in grossed in anything you’re watching.

Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.

Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.

Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.

I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.

It’s not just irony he has no knowledge of history. He know that Reagan said that. All he knows is that Reagan has an R beside his name and maybe possibly the words trickle down economics.

mail with your new address whenever you move

We don’t do that. Honestly mail theft here is bad enough, I’m not certain that it’d be a good idea.

Then our ID’s aren’t even free. You’d think that’s all taxes, but it’s not.

You need to go to the department of motor vehicles with a bunch of proof that you exist just to get a walker’s id. (base state ID card)

Getting an MVA ID without other documents is hard Getting other documents without an MVA ID is hard Getting government documents without MVA ID and other documents is impossible.

Used to be the MVA would let you get a license pretty easily. RealID chilled that the fuck out. Now you need to get a birth certificate from your state of birth, (which might require cross-country travel without a drivers license)

To get a state ID, (RealID™ you currently need a birth certificate, social security card, and or a passport and mail/bills with your address.

The cards aren’t free. If you’re poor, or your parents don’t have their shit together you might not have all of that.

Getting a copy of your birth certificate is not generally free. In many states getting a copy of your birth certificate requires you to go back to the state you’re born in and go to the health department there to get a copy.

They would usually like to see your state ID.

To get a replacement social security card, you have to go through the same kind of scenario. I think they are free though.

If you are from a rural area you need to drive. Everyone around you drives you have family that drives. The poor innercity? They don’t need to drive, can make it through most of not all of life without a license, or by having family member step in to help.

It’s a tax on the poor non-driving. They also like to close polling areas in the poor areas because they have a hard time getting to remote polling places. Then they like to crack down on people giving people standing in line water.

These particularly affected poor area disproportionately black.

doubt we’ll “ever” have that policy.

They likely won’t do it just to do it; driving forces would be required.

If we reach a point where there are serious side effects of lacking engineers, doctors, and nurses due to expatriation, they’ll stop allowing travel. It’ll come as part of a martial law crackdown.

In the long run, people won’t put up with it; in the short run… would you REALLY put it past them?

They’ll start giving returning Americans titer tests and locking up people with immunity up

If you buy one today, sure, a few years ago, before their QC issues and mush really started fucking with the company, they weren’t an awful deal.

Even the cyberdumpsters, you could have been on a waiting list for 3-4 years and paid a solid downpayment.

What happens if mush buys out Rivian, all those retroactively turn to shit?

They’re also probably trapped in a loan. That 50-60k car was financed. it’s now worth 1/3 of it’s original cost. A lot of people who shouldn’t have spent 50k on a car will because monthly payments make it affordable to them, now they sell it and can only replace it with a hundai.

As a Fellow 'murican, I approve with this concept. Let’s ship it for export. Man those tarrif’s though :) /s

wel, it would be nice to be able to own something while in transition no?

The eye-opener now has been that

We’ll probably flux forever in between centralized corpo trash and open decentralized projects, until of course to governments collectively outlaw decentralized projects because they can’t control/police them.

For the sake of our democracy, American hedge funds should be banned from owning Canadian things. --FTFY

Destroy social security. Price houses out of reach for old people the old people work in the fields until death.

Our birth rate is already so low or in danger. Any country not allowing migrants in is toast

Then you just get free meat