A lot of folk decry Cloudflare as a terrible corp (and their AI push now involves the login page shunted to the side while 70% of the screen is a relatively blank section with some sentence about using their AI), but what is the non-3rd party alternative? Does one rely on sharing the IP instead? It is impossible to have public (non-family) traffic without a Cloudflare/Google DNS resolver right?
Being on a standard ISP I cannot use a higher-level rDNS.
Nice that’s similar to my setup! As for a website hub yours looks neat, mine is plain as hell unless you’re a family member, thanks to Authelia – but making public info is on my todo list – I tried custom-building a website many years back and adapted that. (If anyone discovers security flaws please lmk, but I’m preeetty sure I did good)
Gonna share mine :3
I conspire that it was being updated to become weaker. Reasons:
And as the months went on reconnecting stopped working, power cycling stopped working and it stopped giving me a keyboard, instead prompting to “enter on your remote device” so my last remaining technique was to install the Google Home app, set everything up and use my phone keyboard to enter the WiFi creds.
I conspired that as it was fine until recently and it went downhill so rapidly, that it must have been forced obsolescence and they’ll probably release a replacement device. Surprise – one month after I replaced it with Kodi, Google released the “Google TV Streamer 4K”.
Once I can upgrade my 2017 flagship to a 2027 midrange I’ll be transferring the i7-7700K and the other half of the 2x16 RAM, and I’m in dire need of more storage so a 30TB Ironwolf is in my sights (but fuck, it’s 2x its pre AI-pocalypse price (aka Sep 2025).
Interesting, I figured people would use MySQL instead if possible.
Yeah I used to have a ROM game from a series called Galaxy of Games. And then Good Old Games (now gog.com) the game distributor. Maybe another GoG site, unless I’m remembering a Good Old Games mirror
The only thing I know about apparmour is that it breaks some permissions for a couple of my machines, and I have to disable them in the container config in order for the containers to boot
Welcome to the club! It looks like the other recommended solutions have a UI for browsing as well, which is cool. As it is my ytdl-sub feeds into a library for Emby so I personally don’t need another UI, but it is tempting. Only issue I could see is the same one I had to fix: Some videos only had AV1 available, and support for AV1 encoding only begins at the very recent Intel Core Ultra and AMD 7040 CPUs. Without those even 720p playback is laggy af… I have an RTX 3060 at my disposal for HW transcoding but who knows if those YouTube archiver/players support it
Edit: Just did some research, it seems that the other services don’t have support for HW transcoding or multiple users. And they are much more resource-intensive than ytdl-sub + Emby
Having dabbled with remote codes I can only assume that the remote sends a different, albeit common, signal. My Chromecast remote for example does not send (via Bluetooth) a traditional signal code for power, but a signal name that only is recognised by some devices.
The Valve logo in the centre goes hard, and I massively appreciate the branding being placed somewhere other than the front. No need to advertise to the person who fucking bought it
Wow thanks!! Looks like it works with 6-9 numbers
What do you do, randomise it every year?
Idk, my partner has an RTX 1650 but the PC runs Mint, is a Dell Optiplex 990 with stock mid-2011 mobo, Intel i5-2400 CPU and 20GB DDR3-1333 RAM (8+8+2+2). It runs really well, considering.
How much would gofu.ckyour.self go for I wonder. And how does artificial popularity inflation even work on a domain, like how does a name go from £5/yr to £2,500/yr
Can second this - My PC is Arch BTW but my partner, on my recommendation, installed Mint. Smooth af install and I almost never taught them a terminal command because it has this easy enough repo library app, and prompts for updates. Things just work.
I can recommend my experience - EndeavourOS. Based on Arch, it was built to come prepackaged with everything you need for gaming. Once install is complete it offers great choices for gaming and privacy programs. Almost everything on Steam is a Windows .exe so they are all run in a mini Windows filesystem through a top notch compatibility layer (called Proton, based on Wine) and to answer your question - yes, Steam Link is perfect on Linux. Lower latency than Sunshine/Moonlight.
One thing I owned that you’ll have to sacrifice, unless you use the Gnome DE iirc - Wallpaper Engine. I exported every .mp4 from the files and run with Hidamari instead, but it’s not the same.
And one caveat if you choose EndeavourOS - Budgie DE is borked a little bit so I switched to Cinnamon
I kept all my certificates separate - have I been wasting time with 15 subdomains each with their own cert and A record? I have wondered. And then set in my reverse proxy a single domain.tld cert for each entry? TIA.
I wrote bash scripts to run via cron to keep my IPs updated, using Cloudflare API. It’s probably useful to other folk but as I used to need just v4 addresses I made one separate script for v4 IPs, v6 IPs and proxied, but it wouldn’t take long to combine. Here’s my v4:
#!/bin/bash
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="<api_here>"
ZONE_ID="<zone_id_here"
DOMAINS=({subdomains.,www.}domain.tld)
log="/opt/ddns/log_$(date +%F).txt"
result=""
CURL="/usr/bin/curl"
JQ="/usr/bin/jq"
IP=$($CURL -s http://ipv4.icanhazip.com/)
echo $(date +"%FT%T")>>$log
echo "Performing v4 proxied domain IP address check...">>$log
# Get v4 records
for DNS_RECORD in ${DOMAINS[@]}; do
DNS_RECORD_ID=$($CURL -s -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records?type=A&name=$DNS_RECORD" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" | $JQ -r '{"result"}[] | .[0] | .id')
# Get each record's IP
current_ip=$($CURL -s -X GET "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records/$DNS_RECORD_ID" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" | $JQ -r '.result.content')
# Check if the IP addresses are different
if [[ "$IP" == "$current_ip" ]] || [[ "$IP" == "" ]]; then
continue
fi
echo "IP address for $DNS_RECORD has changed from $current_ip to $IP. Updating record...">>$log
result="$result${DNS_RECORD%%.*}, "
# Sets the new IP if different
response=$($CURL -s -X PUT "https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/zones/$ZONE_ID/dns_records/$DNS_RECORD_ID" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{
"type": "'"A"'",
"name": "'"$DNS_RECORD"'",
"content": "'"$IP"'",
"ttl": 120,
"proxied": true
}')
if [[ $response == *"\"success\":true"* ]]; then
echo "DNS record updated successfully">>$log
else
echo "Failed to update DNS record for $DNS_RECORD. Response: $response">>$log
result="$result\nFailed. See log."
fi
# Sends information to webhook
unset DNS_RECORD_ID
done
if [ -n "$result" ]; then
$CURL -X POST -d '{"result": "'"$result"'\n'"$current_ip"' -> '"$IP"'"}' "<home_assistant_local_webhook-delete_this_block_if_unwanted>" -H "Content-Type:application/json"
fi
echo $result>>$log
echo $'Done.\n'>>$log
/opt/ddns/cloudflare_ddns_v4_direct.sh # This triggers the next script
I second this! I’ve learned to note everything down during my experience installing services with Proxmox, and have recently started converting my notes to Public guides, just in case it helps anyone to not start from scratch
I guess porkbun, being the least renowned name, is the weak link. Companies blaming each other is all too familiar…
I have a .uk via Cloudflare and never needed to give proof, but I did buy it several years ago
Them and Amazon Web Services. Every single “83c92b227da1a9e337ef305b1f99f42418af47e96edb2960d01a7ed26d35eec.us-east-1.prod.service.minerva.devices.a2z.com” and “awstrack.me” URL. They’re so heavily integrated.
Aha, I disabled the LEDs by unplugging them from the motherboard, you could do the same with the power sw plugs