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Cake day: July 19th, 2023

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  • Know that doing this is not advised and your computer will now be directly accessible to the Internet. As long as you’re fine with the potential for vulnerabilities and that risk or just don’t care:

    You need to setup port forwarding on the local router for the computer you want to connect to and check the docs for origin_web_ui to include “wan” (Internet). Docs also describe encryption configurations. https://docs.lizardbyte.dev/projects/sunshine/latest/md_docs_2configuration.html#port

    Know that your network router (like 192.168.1.1) keeps everything on your network from receiving any connections that weren’t already requested by a computer or phone on your network. Port forwarding opens a hole into your network and that computer now has to protect itself so keep it updated, especially sunshine, and I’d recommend not turning off ufw but just adding some rules to allow the sunshine traffic.



  • I think most people weren’t fully aware until recently. You had to be active online or actually look for information to see it was more than just rich billionaire syndrome. We all live in bubbles and some people didn’t get to hear about all the details with the 2019 pedo submarine incident Nowadays it would be very difficult to argue you didn’t know but bought a Tesla because it’s in your face.

    For context, the model S was first sold in 2012, the model x in 2015, model 3 in 2017 and Y in 2020.









  • Learning Linux is a great start.

    Learning any coding language will help you understand a bit more about the programs will work, however there isn’t much need to actually learn a specific language unless you plan to add custom programs or scripts.

    The general advice for email is don’t. It’s very risky to host and it’s a big target for spam. Plus there’s challenges getting the big companies to trust your domain.

    However hosting things behind a VPN (or locally on your home network) can let you learn a lot about networking and firewalls without exposing yourself to much risk.

    I have no direct experience with next cloud but I understand it can be hosted on Linux, you can buy a Synology NAS and run it in that, or use something like TrueNAS.

    Personally my setup is on one physical server so I use Proxmox which lets me run 2 different Linux servers and trueNAS on one single computer through virtual machines. I like it because it lets me tinker with different stuff like home assistant and it won’t affect say my adblocker/VPN/reverse proxy. I also use Docker to run multiple services on one virtual machine without compatibility issues. If I started again, I’d probably have gotten bigger drives or invested in SSDs. My NAS is hard drives because of cost but it’s definitely hitting a limit when I need to pull a bunch of files. Super happy with wireguard-easy for VPN. I started with a proprietary version of openVPN on Oracle Linux and that was a mistake.