

Oh yeah, absolutely
Oh yeah, absolutely
I was thinking this while setting up RomM a few months back. Each media stack I’m running has a bit of a different reasoning behind it, but at the end of the day it’s more about convenience and owning my own library than anything cost-related.
My Jellyfin server exists because streaming services are a nightmare. Overpriced as hell, extremely limited libraries, things constantly coming and going.
I use Navidrome because Spotify supports genocide and Tidal felt too limited, and neither pays artists well. While most of my library is pirated, I make it a point to buy directly from the artists whenever possible - whether that’s digital downloads, vinyl, or merch, direct support goes much further than streaming services ever will.
RomM is about preservation and convenience for my emulation library. These aren’t hard to find online, sure, but knowing I have my own copies feels like a safety net in case of more shutdowns and lawsuits.
Getting it up and running was pretty easy but admittedly I’m starting to hit some snags with split DNS and Authentik. Totally doable but taking a lot of work for sure.
In the process I’m also moving my entire domain to a different name and got timed out by letsencrypt lmao so I guess I’ll try some more tomorrow.
I went with a Racknerd debian 12 box, DigitalOcean is a bit overpriced for what you get. There’s a whole list of recommendations in Pangolin’s wiki iirc
The variant version of number 2, which is more work to set up of course, is Pangolin on a VPS. Basically serves the same purpose but skips Cloudflare entirely.
I’m in the process of setting up Pangolin and Headscale on a VPS to expose a small handful of services and to replace my wg-easy setup. Currently chaining wg-easy through a gluetun container, so with a single VPN connection I get LAN access and protect my outbound traffic, but I can’t for the life of me get the same setup working on wg-easy v15, so I’m going to give tailscale/headscale a try with a gluetun exit node.
Still sad about this. Mullvad feels like the best privacy-centric choice and I’ve been using them for a year, but once I set up my media server I realized how vital port forwarding is. Ended up switching to Proton, who I’m still uncomfortable with due to their CEO’s political comments earlier this year, but they’re arguably the best choice right now.
Depends on how much you use it. Since I don’t use mine for media, mostly for configs and service data folders, I barely scratch 120GB and I’m little paying under a dollar a month for it right now.
Definitely adding this and the linked blocklist to my pihole, thanks for sharing!
This scenario is why my offsite backup is primarily a backblaze b2 bucket, while also running a large media backup to an external HDD once a month which I keep in a storage unit. Janky but effective
Realistically I could coordinate with my brother to set up a backup system at my family’s place but it feels like a hassle
Not sure about other options but Backrest has worked wonderfully for me since day 1. Basically just a GUI for Restic. My only complaints are that jobs can’t be assigned to multiple repos and you can’t edit a job’s name or repo once created. Aside from those quirks, it works fine - I have daily, weekly, monthly, and manual jobs set up across both servers and my desktop, basically just set it and forget it.
I just recently started routing mine through a gluetun container, but now I’m hitting timeouts pretty consistently. Not sure if there’s a solution to that or just deal with it.
What a way with words LOL
I respect it but it’s not for me. It feels very defined for one hand size in particular, thing gives me cramps.
Same here. The thing was neat and innovative, but missing the dpad and right stick really brought it down significantly imo. The steam deck got it right - the trackpads are incredibly useful when used as a supplementary feature, but rarely as a full replacement for traditional inputs. Plus the form factor. Dear god the thing was MASSIVE. Incredibly uncomfortable to use and such an awkward shape.
Here’s hoping the leaks come to fruition, because a 2.0 version based on the Deck would be 10/10.
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I do the same but with blue lights on everything. No patterns, color-changes, or whatever - just everything on a low, static blue
Rookie numbers
Yeah I’d consider blocking out both the bots and AI-users a win-win lmao
I started D2 with Shadowkeep’s launch, sunk in 12k hours, spent who knows how much money on bullshit cosmetics, and finally quit for good this past November.
I’ve made some lifelong friends through that community, pushed myself to do some serious challenges (solo Nez and pre-Resilience solo GM Lightblade probably my top two), and I wouldn’t take all the time spent back, but the game and studio are toxic as fuck and putting it behind me has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
I do legitimately miss the social aspect we built around it - our small community discord has been incredibly quiet since most of us dropped the game. And pushing myself for lowman challenges and such was exhilarating. But the problems of that game and Bungie as a whole far outweigh any remaining value, and besides they’re pushing the game in such a dogshit direction anyway. FOMO, power creep to hell and back, abysmal pvp sandbox andmatchmaking, I’m good.
love this for us
I didn’t even know there was a switch version