I have used it, and honestly it’s better than writing pure bash. But it’s not perfect. Still needs a lot of work, and there are a bunch of weird limitations and things you need to remember. So I would say it’s main use case is where you absolutely need bash portability over a more robust scripting/programming language.

I have a yubikey setup to autounlock my laptop luks. It’s a bit of a pain to get setup the first time then it just works. Not sure it’s worth it for a home server unless it has some real valuable data on it. And in that case you wouldn’t want the key stored anywhere near it.

It should be back up now, but there may be bugs.

We allow registration with a one time token only and a hidden registration page. The token is generated via bot by an admin/mod.

I always suggest https://www.seedhost.eu/shared-app-hosting/

Though it looks like the lower end ones are out of stock right now. Worth keeping an eye on.

You can get started pretty easily with Podman desktop and kind. Then you have a small self-contained cluster to mess around with, that also functions as a dev environment. Another option, and how I first learned, was with free credits from GCP. I realize this is self-hosted, just providing options for learning…

I’ve always liked Digital Ocean tutorials for getting stuff done. This one shows you how to deploy some things and links out to official documentation for further details: https://k8s-ops.net/posts/getting-started-with-kubernetes-digitalocean/

These are also good free tutorials: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/devops/kubernetes-tutorial/

Once you are comfortable with kubectl and basic deployments, then look into helm.

I host and use it as my default search on all devices. Bare metal deployment. The maintenance is pretty low, I just run the instance update script from to time.

Results have been worse lately, I think it needs some tuning in regards to weights and what engines are in use.

You can upload potential threats to https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload

There are/were vulnerabilities that are zero click, but in this case I imagine they are just banking on people clicking it in this case. If you’re not familiar xvideos is a porn site.

I think you are probably fine as you were running windows defender. It might be a good idea to do a manual full scan and perhaps refresh your browser.

I meant in the context of the VPN. It slows down the network for everyone on one which is run by donation. For commercial companies, it incentivizes them to further lock down what users can do or what speeds they get.

You can get into private trackers and trust them. Not recommended, but some do.

Generally speaking, the copyright trolls only target public trackers and DHT. There have been some instances of them making way into TL and others. Your ISP could also identify torrenting on private trackers if they wanted to, even with mitigations. In my experience and from what I hear, most ISPs do not go to these lengths.

So, there a risk doing the above. Whether or not it’s worth it until you can afford a decent VPN is up to you.

Aside: Please do not use a free VPN for torrenting (or tor, for that matter). They are either like RiseUp and run on donations for people who really, really need them, or Proton which is commercial and specifically try to block or slow down the traffic. Either way, if ruins it for everyone else.

For most of them you can get 720p on Linux with basic stereo audio.

It was possible to play Netflix 1080p on Chrome, but I think those days are gone.

Unfortunately, I don’t see a user-controlled Linux system ever being properly supported in the current DRM / copyright paradigm. There isn’t really a solution that satisfies the “rights holders”, and even if there were, there is little to no incentive to implement it.

I’m guessing that pfBlockerNG is using the IPInfo database to query what IPs the ASNs own, so I think it would be required. ASNs are not static, so it wouldn’t make sense to ship a database of them, it would immediately be outdated.

Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.

I wrote this little webapp thing some time ago. It’s not exactly what you asked for but is a good example.

All it does is base64 encode a link and adds the server url in front of it. When someone visits that link it will redirect them to the destination. The intent is to bypass simple link tracking / blocking in discord and other platforms.

There are also checks for known bad domains and an attempt to remove known tracking query parameters.

https://git.tsps-express.xyz/liliumstar/redir

Edit: I forgot to add it also blocks known crawlers (at least at time of writing) so that they can’t just follow the 302 and figure out where it goes.

That is a good idea. Think I have done that before but it’s been so long I forgot. These days I just have one windows machine that runs on separate hardware. Keeps everything isolated.

Really any distro should be fine. It’s more a matter of getting the bootloader setup correctly.

Do note that, depending on the configuration, Windows will randomly overwrite stuff and mess up dual boot.

If you can for your situation, I would suggest running a Windows VM inside Linux to get certain tasks done.

I’ve had pretty good experience with this. For the most part installing with Lutris and pointing it to the correct exe works. Generally games will not run due to actual compatability issues.

The real pain point is trying to install mods on certain engines/games where the modders assume a windows environment. Sometimes they ship precompiled binaries that will only work under specific conditions and it’s hard to debug.

Maybe one of the Fedora Atomic distros would be up your alley? https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/

I don’t think NixOS meets the bill. You’d be learning and troubleshooting a whole new language just to setup your system and modify the core configuration.

Admittedly I’ve only used it with a preconfigured theme and no need for real customization. If you do need those features, I’d imagine the other commenters are correct.

I would also recommend Hugo, and believe it meets your requirements. The header markdown looks very similar to what you wrote, and it has tags. I’m not sure about a tag “cloud” the way you imagine it, but it’s worth looking into.