combatfrog

What do you need VPN that port forwards for? Torrenting?

It's been a while since I used VPN to hide my server, but I know Private Internet Access has/had the ability to forward one random port. I used to have a bash script then that would check the PIA port, change the port for my application, and restart it. There is some docker application out there called PIA-qbitorrent that will run download torrents through PIA with a killswitch as well.

I download mainly through usenet, and the few times i use torrents I just do it without VPN (Doesn't seem like norway cares that much vOv)

My setup is a homeserver with wireguard vpn configured, and im renting the cheapest docker linux VM from hetzner. On that VM I run swag (the letsencrypt/reverse proxy thing) and wireguard together in a docker compose multi application thing. So now I don't need to expose any ports on my home network (VPN port is forwarded though), and all traffic is routed through the reverse proxy VM that I control myself, hosted in Finland (to avoid cloudflare), through the wireguard VPN connection to my server. Works pretty great.

I've used navidrome for about a month, and I really like that it just reads the audio tags instead of trying to look things up, potentially making my library look "ugly" and messy. I'm having some issues with the play:Sub app on iOS not wanting to queue songs when I swipe them, but otherwise it works fine. I've basically been using spotify since the beta, so my music library is just what I've managed to download this month.

I use both lidarr and yt-dlp. Lidarr for when I want full albums in high bitrate, and yt for smaller songs where I don’t want the whole album.

Both as containers on my server, and they download to a folder navidrome scans. Pretty slick.

He was a big deal before he died though, wasn't he? I'm a norwegian, and I used to watch a ton of croc files when I was a kid.

Looks like the guy next to him has the same shirt

Like Einstein amirite

Similarly, I read bcachefs as BCA Chefs 😅

Oh man, I just understood the "how do you like them bananas" scene in futurama...

How can you tell? I don't see reference to which board anywhere in that pic. Out of curiosity :)

The twist wasn’t obvious to me when I saw it. I quite liked the movie.

When I was a kid there was a Norwegian children movie called "The hunt for the kidney stone" where a kid travels into the body of his sick grandpa to find out what's wrong with him (kidney stone). After the movie I asked my mom what kidney stones are, and where they come from. "You can get them if you eat too much salt, for example" she says, and after that I was TERRIFIED every time my parents would put salt on anything.

Meanwhile my dog has access to clean fresh water, yet insists on drinking from the dirtiest puddles outside