Dang, talk about flashbacks I didn't expect. Nicely done!
Another screensaver I miss and would actually put on my machine if I could... Johnny Castaway.
Mikelius
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I saw the controller and tv and honestly thought the comic was going to end with him being forced to update to play, and then not having time anymore once the update finished. At least that's always my experience with my console, which is probably why I don't play on it anymore lol
I've been using "passwords" on nextcloud for a few years now. Minimal issues with the app, moving apps, and browser extensions. Not perfect, but hey it's self hosted and reliable.
I also wouldn't consider this a secret....
I found years ago that if you block ubi.com and ubisoft.com (if you have a self hosted DNS or a way to block domains on a network), and any other sub domains you might spot, the games work fine. They just take like a full minute to load while they try their best to hit the servers. So yeah I've never agreed to the TOS for a few games as a result.
Needles to say, you'll need these domains unblocked to play multiplayer.
Yeah I'll have to look through them and play with the firewall and router. Project zomboid did something very similar but I was able to find a way to make it work with my two custom ports.
Absolute worst case scenario, I create my own MITM to replace the 8888 for the client response lol
I host my server behind a VPN, which cannot have 8888 open.
Will setting the external port mapping settings let me continue and let my friends connect like usual?
I was seriously just finally starting to become interested in using them a lot more for gaming since I got some success getting it to work on my Linux install. This would make me do a full 180 though...
My personal advice, secure it down to only permitting what needs it, regardless of your trust to the network.
Treat each device as if they've been compromised and the attacker on the compromised device is now trying to move laterally. Example scenario: had you blocked all devices except your laptop or phone to your server, your server wouldn't have been hacked because someone went through a hacked cloud-connected HVAC panel.
I lock down everything and grant access only to devices that should have access. Then on top of that, I enable passwords and 2FA on everything as if it were public... Nothing I self host is public. It's all behind my network firewall and router firewall, and can only be accessed externally by a VPN.
If you're into self hosting, traccar is an option, which also has its own mobile app of course. Not the best thing ever but when it works, it's nice. Connects to home assistant nicely, too.
Yeah, in my example, I have various genres of music I listen to and some days I'm in the mood for one and not another. Some of those might have subgenres I am in the mood to listen to. For example: Metal might break into subfolders called black metal, thrash metal, melodic metal, etc. Based on where I feel they belong the most. If I'm in the mood for some melodic metal today, I'll go there. Or EDM, I'll have a folder for Psytrance, another for House, etc...
Rather than trying to edit the metadata on thousands and thousands of files every time I change media systems as I've done over these years, it's 100x simpler for me to just navigate to the folders directly and not care about how the system "wants" to organize it. Every media system wants to organize differently and I'm kind of tired of having to spend hours editing all my music just to get it to organize the way that works for me, so that's where I've gotten to the point of just using folder structures.
I could never get Plex to work the way I wanted it to, so I'm actually someone who moved to Kodi and then to Emby. Once I got into Emby, I've yet to leave it. My biggest problem now is that I want to leave it for Jellyfin, but the lack of many things I love about Emby have never been moved to Jellyfin.
For example, I have a very specific organization of my music libraries I use to navigate what I want to listen to much quicker, since I'm into all kinds of genres of music. Emby allows me to navigate by folder structure, so if I'm in the mood for heavy metal one day, go to that folder. If classical another day, go there. Jellyfin on the other hand didn't have folder structure view and even though it's one of the top requested features for the past few years when I last checked, it's never been added...
I think the day Jellyfin does fill in these gaps, assuming new ones aren't introduced due to Emby also improving, I'll finally jump over.
I guess to the original topic, I do think Jellyfin exceeds Plex though lol.
If you go for btrfs, be careful going backwards on kernel versions.
I had upgraded my kernel on Gentoo, which also happen to include a btrfs update. Booted up and found the latest kernel didn't like something about my full disk luks encryption with RAID mirror setup (for the root partition, and unrelated to btrfs), so I decided to go back to the previous kernel. Big mistake.
My entire root partition got corrupted to hell. It mounted read only at first so I decided to try to go through regular repair steps. It got worse. Got to an eventual step that someone said could take a few weeks to restore (forgot the commands). This isn't an option for my server. So with snapshots broken, unable to use the old and now new kernel due to corruption from attempting to go back to a previous kernel, I had to restore with a full partition clone backup I had created prior to the kernel upgrade... Also went back to ext4 again afterwards.
Btrfs treated me really well for a few years, and snapshots and performance are great, but once it hits a hiccup, you might in a world of trouble. Don't think I've ever run into such a thing with ext4 over the years, which is why I reverted to it - not saying it's immune to such things, but this is just me.
Not sure if zfs would have such a dramatic situation, but maybe something to consider about btrfs if you ever decide you'll need the ability to go back a kernel version due to whatever reason.