It’s all about responsibility or time in my eyes.

Let’s say you can pay $100/month for forums and it’s maintained by someone else. They do updates, manage storage, etc, etc. If something goes down they fix it.

Or, you can self host it for $10/month on a VPS. Are you really saving $90 a month when you’re on the hook for everything? If it goes down, will you have time to fix it or is your time better spent working with a customer to get income?

Now consider this for all the services you need. Which ones are actually worth running yourself?

Looks like it’s out. I’m not home but I’ve been lurking 4chan and found something I need to try later today

It’s not so much about the ports, its about what you’re running that’s accessible to the public.

If you have a single website on 443 and SSH on 22 (or a non-standard port like 6543) you’re generally considered safe. This is 2 services and someone would need to attack one of the two to get in.

If you have a VPN on 4567 and everything behind the VPN then someone would need to hack the VPN to get in.

If you have 100 different things behind 443 then someone just needs to find a hole in one to get in.

Generally ssh, nginx, a VPN are all safe and they should be on their own ports.

NC is kind of a pain to run and tries to do far to much. I’d pick different software to run than adding addons to nextcloud.

That being said, I add contacts and calendar and use it to sync to my PC/Phone

Yeah, I understand that you were just looking for a notification that you had a message but what I linked is similar to what I do.

I have a self hosted matrix chat and a phone I leave at home all the time. I forward my calls to a VoIP provider and SMS/MMS to the matrix chat server.

On my data only phone I have “acrobits softphone” for phone calls and “Elements” for SMS/MMS, signal, and WhatsApp.

My reason for all this is I HATE typing on a phone keyboard. I use to be shit at texting people back and it’d take awhile. Now I’ll use my PC with a keyboard to reply to people.

https://www.beeper.com/

Or because they got what they wanted a different way.

Walled garden, they want you to buy more of their hardware so it all works together nicely and you only give one company all your money.

If everything connected to WiFi, you could pick and choose any thermostat to work with any furnace.

There’s been a few things I’ve wanted to cross for, even seriously considered it once 2 months ago until my wife said absolutely not.

What’s sad is I wanted to visit Florida, NYC, and a few other spots. I doubt we’ll ever go back now.

I would never install this into Firefox but I do want to point out that a lot of pirate stuff is hosted in Russia these days because they can ignore takedown requests

I’m early 30s and my wife is pregnant with our first.

Before I met her 5+ years ago I had no interest in kids, not to the point of considering a vasectomy but I didn’t want kids. I planned to travel and do your typical no responsibility shenanigans. It was clean pretty early on she wanted kids and that really got me thinking what I actually wanted out of life. I’m happy I didn’t end it over kids and I’m super excited to go through this with not only her but a child. The plan is to have more than one and I’m 100% excited for this.

All of that being said, if things went differently, I’d still be happy living a no kids life. My opinion never really changed, I’m almost 99% sure I’ll avoid other peoples kids but I’m also excited for mine.

Do you test public WiFi with ZeroTier at all?

I ask because there’s a few public networks where WG won’t connect and I’m trying to find ways around it. I could always use cell data but this is more fun to me.

I know this doesn’t answer your question but I’ve never had this kind of problem with Usenet. I pay $35 USD a year and bought a couple “lifetime” memberships 6 years ago.

What others have said should help solve the problem with torrents. If you can, it might be worth getting an account with a private site.

I don’t

This is beautifully written. 🤌🤌

In my case, 10+years ago I had 6 * 3tb Seagate disks in a software raid 5. Two of them failed and it took me days to force it back into the raid and get some of the data off. Now I use WD and raid 6.

I read 3 or 4 years ago that it was just the 3tb reds I used had a high failure rate but I’m still only buying WDs

Looks like nxbrew is still up.

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Why use a VPS at all then? Do you not want to host at home?

I want to call out one thing in case you didn’t know.

The idea of a public VPN is to hide your traffic with other users who also use the VPN. If you’re renting a VPS you don’t get all the “benefits” of a public VPN. All you’re doing is adding an extra hop to the internet, you’re not mixing your traffic with others using the same IP. It’s all you… In fact, you’re probably making it easier to isolate the things you do online because at home you could say a guest you had over must have downloaded it. If its the VPS, its all you.