Thanks. I’ll keep this in mind in case my new stack causes issues again

Hey, just wanted to let you know that my updated stack has been running perfectly since I changed it based on your setup. Thanks

I guess I missed that.

Anyway, I updated my stack to be similar to what you pasted and so far it seems to be working. I’ll have to check tomorrow if the reboot issue persists.

I know that the port forwarding command can be simplified. In my case its this complex because the way it is listed in the gluetun wiki did not work even though I disabled authentication for my local network. The largest part of the script is authenticating with the username and password before actually sending the port forwarding command.

I’ll definitely try adjusting my stack to your variant though. I’ve also tried the healthcheck option before but I must have configured it wrong because that caused my gluetun container to get stuck.

One question regarding your stack though, is there a specific reason for binding /dev/net/tun to gluetun?

As far as I am aware, Mullvad has removed port forwarding support a while ago. While I am not sure which VPN providers except proton still support it, I kind of remember seeing a small list of them some time ago which listed Proton among one of the few trustworthy ones left.

Good thing I decided against switching to it, even though my main reason is that my weird book organisation scheme isn’t feasible with anything but calibre or manual organisation currently as far as I know

I use a MikroTik Router and while I do love the amount of power it gives me, I very quickly realized that I jumped in at the deep end. Deeper than I can deal with unfortunately.

I did get everything running after a week or so but I absolutely had to fight the router to do so.

Sometimes less is more I guess

That was my exact setup as well until I switched to a different router which supported both custom DNS entries and blocklists, thereby making the pi-hole redundant

Not OP but a lot of people probably use pi-hole which doesn’t support wildcards for some inane reason

Maybe they added new ones since I last looked

Extra hard drive space is good and all but the last time I looked at their lists, all decently sized torrents had a good enough amount of peers while the large torrents which aren’t as manageable were the issue.

I typically use EndeavorOS because I enjoy how well documented and organized the arch wiki is.

I tried switching to fedora on my laptop recently but actually had some issues with software that was apparently only distributed through the AUR or AppImage (which I could have used, I know).

When I also had issues setting up my VPN to my home network again, I caved and restored the disk to a backup I took before attempting the switch. The VPN thing almost definitely wasn’t Fedoras fault since I remember running into the same issue on EndeavorOS but after my fix from last time didn’t work I was out of patience.

My servers runs either on debian or Ubuntu LTS though.

Why not skip ahead in time a little and call it farmarr?

I sometimes prefer light mode, for example on my laptop in bright environments because I find that it gives me better contrast and keeps more of the screen viewable

I know you didn’t mention video but if you think you might want to host jellyfin in the future, make sure your CPU supports hardware decoding for modern formats.

For example, my lenovo mini pc with an i5-6500 has support for h265 but not h265 10bit or AV1, which makes playing those formats on some devices basically impossible without re-encoding the files.

I’m at the point where I wish I had more reasons to use pen and paper because I have a couple fountain pens I really want to use more.

Unfortunately my entire work is computer based and it does not make sense to put my notes on paper because I write them as documentation for my work.

I had a single desk in my bedroom set aside for projects. Above that desk I had a pegboard for some frequently used tools and a small shelf next to the desk where I out anything that has its own case.

Not that great but it worked for me.

Sounds nice but the main issue I personally see with that bag philosophy is needing the same tool for 2 different tasks. I’m sure as heck not buying a second pair of 50 euro knipex because I have the other pair set aside for some other task.

Currently I can barely get most of tools that don’t have a box of their own into a big metal toolbox. If I was going to live where I am currently for more than the next year I might think about setting up a pegboard for my tools again. Maybe make a nice wall of pliers

Honestly, I really like containers for self-hosting stuff on my server. Just write a single text file describing the setup and you can always recreate it, even after nuking the server.

No dependencies suddenly going missing or different versions of the same program being required by two services.

I guess my main takeaway from this article is that many of those things (definitely not all of them) are good ideas within moderation. Then along comes the marketing department and rips the moderation apart.

Charge the customer for repairs? How? They probably aren’t even reparable anymore. Also, I don’t like the sound of this “free upgrade”. That sounds like a TV replacement with a more expensive one while the previous one goes in the trash