Ah man, my boss wants to get our department Meta glasses for taking pictures of parts we make, we literally get a bonus on our pay cheques for us having our phones on us an be reachable.

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How is the art a positive?

While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.

• SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

Why is 255 off limits? What is 127.0.0.0 used for?

Hypothetically you’re working on an application but you don’t want that application exposed to the internet, you would use localhost to either expose it to 1 machine on your network or network wide by opening a port and telling the application to listen on the private IP assigned by your router.

Advanced setup would include a reverse proxy to forward the requests from the applications port to the internet, the reverse proxy would use port 80:80 (http) & 443:433 (https), so the flow would look a little like this -

Internet > Reverse Proxy listening on 80:80 & 443:443 > Application listening on 8080:8080

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Why does it span to .254? Well this is another advanced setup but if you wanted to segregate two application on different subnets you can. I’m not sure if there is a security benefit by adding the extra hop but the option is there.

https://freetubeapp.io/ comes packed with DeArrow, Sponsorblock and natively uses Invidious or Piped API’s for playback.

Yes, back up your stuff regularly, don’t be like me and break your partition table with a 4 month gap between backups. Accomplishing 4 months of work in 5 hours is not fun.

To add to this - localhost spans 127.0.0.1-127.254.254.254

so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

Yes, they only provide country, province/state and city. As others mentioned if you’re worried about this information get yourself a reliable VPN provider and, route all your devices through said VPN provider, ideally through your router.

When picking a VPN provider it is highly recommended to read their Privacy Policy before signing up, ensure they don’t log data.

So why would you not write out the full path?

The other day my raspberry pi decided it didn’t want to boot up, I guess it didn’t like being hosted on an SD card anymore, so I backed up my compose folder and reinstalled Rasp Pi OS under a different username than my last install.

If I specified the full path on every container it would be annoying to have to redo them if I decided I want to move to another directory/drive or change my username.

As other stated it’s not a bad way of managing volumes. In my scenario I store all volumes in a /config folder.

For example on my SearXNG instance I have a volume like such:

services:
  searxng:
    …
    volumes:
      - ./config/searx:/etc/searxng:rw

This makes the files for SearXNG two folders away. I also store these in the /home/YourUser directory so docker avoids using sudoers access whenever possible.

Setting static IP’s is generally a good practice to take if you want to keep track of any device.

Grandma probably doesn’t do the actually torrenting herself, chances are OP has a overseerr or jellyseerr type of setup, grandma makes the request and things just flow.

afaik linux players can still play older battlefields, like battlefield 4,

Yup, I still play it pretty often despite all the cheaters. Battlefield hardline was the last battlefield to allow Linux users.

Maybe this time they’ll let Linux users play.

Canadians got Hosers and Britains got Scousers, who would’ve thunk it!

something that’s as close as windows in perfomance as windows 10 is

You’ll notice better load times on Linux 9 times out of 10 than any variant of Windows. With that being said, I would suggest Kubuntu.

Done did their final sudo docker compose down

“Technically” my jellyfin is exposed to the internet however, I have Fail2Ban setup blocking every public IP and only whitelisting IP’s that I’ve verified.

I use GeoBlock for the services I want exposed to the internet however, I should also setup Authelia or something along those lines for further verification.

Reverse proxy is Traefik.