The funny part is that they sell it as modern yet they use Java like if it was a banking software from the 90’s. Thanks for the tip.

Nextcloud Music (…) Downside: it is Nextcloud.

I’m hoping that some US state also decides to enforce this browser engine thing so then US companies start having interest in making iOS engines.

Yeah, that’s great, however, where’s ONE browser with a 3rd party engine? No Chrome, no Firefox, no Brave… So much talk, years and years and now that Apple was forced into making it available there’s not a single browser using it.

It’s so hard to have a SMB share with one folder per game. The solution is obviously to run 4000 docker containers.

You should not trust those builds. Everything you need to know is documented here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy/manage-connections-from-windows-operating-system-components-to-microsoft-services

Windows 10/11 Enterprise is recommended as that’s the version where Microsoft can’t fuck up.

No, that’s a myth. Registry edits may revert in some cases yes, but group policy is different as it designed exactly to configure machines in a stable way.

Group policy may be beyond the general skill level, which makes the constant Linux suggestions even more laughable.

Ahaha yeah, I’ve said that SO MANY times. People have issues setting a few toggles on a point-and-click UI but then it is okay to suddenly move to a entirely different OS that most likely won’t have the software they’re used to and requires terminal skills to deal with most things. Laughable indeed.

Completely bullshit, garbage clickbait title.

Windows 10 is near EoL, however that’s for Home/Pro/Enterprise versions, you can move to one of those for more time:

• Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC - 2027
• Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC - 2032

To be fair I don’t really believe that Microsoft will kill it when they say they will. And even if they do it, porting security updates from those LTSC versions into the regular ones might be doable.

Now on Windows 11:

You can just disable copilot and all the other garbage using group policy, now that hard and you’ll end up with essentially Windows 10. https://www.xda-developers.com/how-disable-microsoft-copilot/

Yes, I’m aware… however there’s nothing making it so we can’t port the directory listing from caddy (most likely just HTML/JS) into nginx. Or, someone might already have done it, I guess will have a look.

Yeah I would totally use that for nginx.

What software are you using on the server to list the directories?

Remember that Apple had to dumb down the macOS version of Pages, Keynote and Numbers at some point (from iWork 09 to single apps) to later on release something even more dumbed down for iOS… and now we have the ultra-dumbed down version for the web.

Yeah because apparently it is too hard to double click on setup.exe but using a docker is okay.

So, looks like tons of HTTP services and SSH.

Great, but what services are you hosting ? What ports you need?

Yeah, those may work. Since you’ve one how does it look like? Are there blocked ports line SMTP? Are the IP good / aren’t blacklisted everywhere already? Thanks.

This means I don’t need to mess around with QBT’s “proxy” settings?

No, you don’t. In short, trackers will look at the source address of the incoming connection on their side, that means you VPS IP because you’re doing NAT on the VPS.

Just make sure qBittorrent is restricted to the WG interface and nothing else.

but without nix it’s a pita to maintain through restores/rebuilds.

No it isn’t. You can even define those routing polices in your systemd network unit alongside the network interface config and it will manage it all for you.

If you aren’t comfortable with systemd, you can also use simple “ip” and “route” commands to accomplish that, add everything to a startup script and done.

major benefit to using a contained VPN or gluetun is that you can be selective on what apps use the VPN.

Systemd can do that for you as well, you can tell that a certain service only has access to the wg network interface while others can use eth0 or wtv.

More classic ip/route can also be used for that, you can create a routing table for programs that you want to force to be on the VPN and other for the ones you want to use your LAN directly. Set those to bind to the respective interface and the routing tables will take place and send the traffic to the right place.

You’re using docker or similar, to make things simpler you can also create a network bridge for containers that you want to restrict to the VPN and another for everything else. Then you set the container to use one or the other bridge.

There are multiple ways to get this done, throwing more containers, like gluetun and dragging xyz dependencies and opinionated configurations from somewhere isn’t the only one, nor the most performant for sure. Linux is designed to handle this cases.

In terms of homelab stuff, I know a lot of people appreciate the containerized approach.

What I said applies to containerized setups as well. Same logic, just managed in a slightly different way.