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Working in IT for about 15 years. Been online in one way or another since the late 90’s.
I like games / anime but very picky with them.
Cats are the best people.
Before even worrying about the content of individual torrents people should worry about the sites themselves being full of ads, spyware and other garbage that generates revenue for shady people. There’s a reason beyond just privacy that people use rss and magnet links. In an ideal scenario you never go to an actual torrent website.
Buy the domain itself wherever you want. I like cloudflare, and a lot of people also suggest porkbun.com. You then point the nameservers for your domain to whatever DNS service you want. If you stick to cloudflare then it’s already done for you.
For dynamic DNS I use cloudflare’s one using my router to keep it updated. It’s easy to set up. Depending on your router you may need to run a service on a machine to do this instead. things like pfsense/opnsense should have it built-in.
You likely wouldn’t be using cloudflare for that level anyways, since you want it to work when you’re offline you’d bypass them entirely with local DNS server, local reverse proxy+certs. You’d use something like certbot with let’s encrypt which works fine. https://certbot.eff.org/
You’re right but you can get a wildcard for that level as well.
If you mean accessing them from within your LAN while your internet is down then no it won’t work.
What you should be doing is either split horizon DNS (LAN resolves local IPs, public resolves public IPs) or use different DNS hostnames internally, for example media.local.yourdomain.com
You then set up a reverse proxy in your LAN and point everything to that, use a let’s encrypt wildcard cert using the DNS challenge method so you can get *.yourdomain.com protected with a single cert. Since you use cloudflare you can use the cloudflare API plugin with certbot, it’ll automate everything for the DNS challenge and no need to keep opening ports or configuring http/https challenges every couple of months.
If you’re not using it to make money it’s never not OK. I can’t see it as theft. It’s just a different method of obtaining the same thing that doesn’t harm anyone.
Not only are those making this choice unlikely to pay anyways, but all the regular people who worked creating it already got paid so nobody can say “oh the film crew, VFX artists etc will be out of a job”. No they already did their job and got paid. The investors maybe want more money but they aren’t hurting for it, I don’t feel anything for them.
Season 8 is the season that just started last week. There’s a second episode coming out today if it isn’t already.
Some sources will say there’s 11 seasons because they split up some older ones for some reason but officially there is 8.
I went with docker but back then their documentation for it was trash and hardly worked. Had to trial and error it until it was functional. Hopefully they fixed that by now.
If you host the instance just for your own account to be under your control there’s hardly any overhead. I’m running it in docker in a debian 12 VM with 1 GB ram, 1 virtual CPU and 50GB virtual disk. Haven’t had any issues.
This is a good way to get a lot of people to never pay for a video game ever again, after Steam did a pretty good job convincing people not to pirate.
That’s one way to kill the WWW.
Those features make sense for people who mostly use mobile, however the price increases make it a lot less appealing even then. At some point people will realize they are paying more to play a video in the background or without ads than for netflix/disney or whatever people like these days.
I’ve yet to be made aware of any benefits at all. None of what you get from premium is either interesting or relevant.
I’m that weird person who just uses nginx and does the config files in a text editor. Been doing it that way since 2010 or so and I’m too used to it to appreciate proxy manager.
My general rule is to not self host things that are good enough / free (as in $$ not FOSS). So I don’t host email or music. I’m not a huge music person so spotify does the job, and gmail’s been great since it started.
Things I do host
mail is the one thing I refuse to self host for the simple reason that despite not being particularly hard to get up and running initially, when it doesn’t work for whatever reason it can be and often is a gigantic pain in the ass to deal with, especially when it’s something out of your control. For personal there’s very good free options, for enterprise those same free options have paid options.
Whether it be gmail having a bad day and blocking you or whatever cloud provider or on prem infrastructure crapping out for long periods of time causing you to be cut off from email for a while and potentially missing incoming mail permanently if the retries time out. Or anything in between. It’s one of those things where I’m glad it isn’t my problem to deal with.
My only involvement with email is ensuring I have a local copy of my inbox synced up every week so if my provider were to ever die I still have all my content.