Maybe see if 'rclone mount' solves the problem for ya. Rclone can often be a super handy swiss army knife for stuff like this.

The main problem I see you running into is that if they decide for any reason to go after you (even just cause now they want your domain), it won't matter if they have a solid legal standing or not. They can afford to tie you up in court indefinitely, and you will likely be unable to outlast them.

Source: This is exactly what happened to my family. We have the same last name as a large corporation, and in the early days of the internet we registered a domain based on a name-related slogan they had used in an older commercial compaign. We were just hosting a basic family website and email, and clearly had no conflicting or overlapping IP. We even checked in advance - they did not own a trademark for the slogan or the name.

A few years later, they decided the wanted the domain for themelves, but instead of offering us a fair price to purchase, they first filed a trademark for the slogan and then sued us for the domain. If we'd had the funds to continue fighting we would have eventually won, but we're just a middle class family and they're a large multi-national corporation with near infinite funds to pay their lawyers. We lost the domain, and it cost us a small fortune in legal fees fighing it.

Proceed with caution.

I still prefer 'Xitter'

https://stackdiary.com/brave-selling-copyrighted-data-for-ai-training/

qBitTorrent

I used to make clocks with the platters and give them to friends and family. Michael's used to sell inexpensive clock mechanisms that looked really cool against the platter background. I haven't seen them lately, but I'm sure someone sells them online.

Barrier: https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

Edit: Input Leap looks like a promising KVM replacement for Barrier, thanks for sharing!

+1 for Cloudflare.

That said, there are a number of folks rightfully concerned about the sheer mass of information Cliudflare has access to through their Content Delivery Network (their primary service). This raises potential privacy concerns, especially for self-hosters, who tend to prefer not to rely too heavily on any one large company. However, you don't actually have to use their CDN service to make use of their minimally-priced Registrar functionality, and personally I really appreciate the services they offer. Their free tier is really impressive, and incredibly useful.

You might try ZeroTier. You'll each need a tiny client app, but its super easy to install and setup, and extremely secure. Free to use with up to 25 devices.

I run real-time full band rehearsals with jamulus.io for low latency audio, plus any video tool of your choice (with the audio muted). we use muted Jitsi Meet for the video feed, but it really doesn't matter. it's all about the Jamulus audio

Oh, Brother.

No seriously, buy Brother printers instead and avoid (at least some of) this enshitification.

Calibre is my goto. It can be somewhat complex but is feature-rich

For some reason, I don't think the supreme court would agree with that figure.

Check out the Chocolatey package manager for Windows. It makes updates for all our common packages available through git/yum/brew easily installed/updated on Windows. PowerShell will never be anywhere near as nice as sitting at a proper linux terminal, but Chocolatey makes the Windows experience slightly more bearable when you need to use it.

This one's my favorite: https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=BHkhIjG0DKc

I run kubuntu on a 2012 Intel i5 MBP and it runs like a champ. everything works perfectly, including mic, speakers, webcam... even minor details like the hardware buttons to turn brightness and volume up/down worked straight out of the box with no fuss.

interesting, thanks!

In Ghostbusters 2 they rigged up a Nintendo joystick to drive the statue of liberty through the streets of NYC. Does that count?

In the US I think the term you're looking for is "republican".

8hz-wan-ip

Thanks for your service! I've been trying out Thunder and I'm generally happy with it so far.

this is the way

RFID-blocking leather wallet, keys, phone

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Yeah, I'll definitely burn a few ISOs to usb to live test. I'll be sure to update my post with the chosen winner once I pick one.

I'll look at that, thanks! I put Bliss on one and I'm not really happy with it yet. Just trying to type my wifi password had the UI wigging out on me, had to use a usb kb just to type the pass. I'll look into Ubuntu Unity tho, thanks!

If for personal access only, ZeroTier might solve your use case.

No one has mentioned OBS? If I understood OP's need correctly that seems like the obvious choice to me.

I can't speak to the paid ProtonVPN service, but their free tier doesn't allow torrenting. They'll disconnect you with a slap on the wrist error about it.

Take a look at xbrowsersync.org

Tabliss

Came here to say this^

Yes! Murphy's Stout is also available in the US. Might not be as good as yours tho

Just the Invidious instance I found on the official list a long time ago. I like them because they're relatively local, super reliable, and unlike a lot of other instances they actually have the download feature enabled. But yeah, their domain name is a bit awkward, lol.

If you have to use Windows, the Chocolatey package manager knows about most great foss apps in the base config, including LibreOffice. You can first 'choco install libreoffice' and later 'choco upgrade all' to keep apps updated.

I rarely need to spin up my Windows vm, but after discovering Chocolatey it's been much more pleasant keeping those apps updated. Same idea as homebrew for macOS; providing *nix-style pkg management. Enjoy!

Looks interesting, I'll check it out!

Yeah, they provide a "Flow" section where you can setup firewall-like rules to control your flow of traffic. You can configure rules that say, allow ssh to a specific server, but only from a specified devices, while allowing ssh, https and smb to another server from any device, blocking all other TCP traffic. UDP is a little weirder to control, but there's a decent tutorial with example configs.

I hear about TailScale a lot, and I know its super popular in the self-hosting & linux communities. I haven't used it myself though, so can't offer a comparison vs ZeroTier. I found ZeroTier refreshjngly easy to use and install on client devices, so haven't had reason to look elsewhere yet.

Anyway, have fun with your endeavor!

I just finished building a cloud solution leveraging an AWS EFS (elastic file system), a secure ZeroTier mesh, and a simple EC2 instance (vm) running Samba (or just sshfs/scp/sftp if multi-user file locking isn't needed). EFS does have some pretty big limitations like the fact users can't be in more than 16 groups (because it behaves like an NFS mount), and it lacks xattr and ACL support. Still, if you can work around these shortcomings you can build a very secure, surprisingly speedy cloud filesystem. Largest expense is the EFS, but after 30 days infrequently accessed files automatically move to slower storage, which is way cheaper. ZeroTier is an important piece of the puzzle, making your security and encryption a breeze. This allows you to run SMB over the internet without actually exposing any services. Connections are only made through your ZT mesh, which is highly secure.

I have seen more (client-owned) La Cie drives fail than I can remember. I wouldn't touch their crap with a 10 foot cable. Their on-board hardware controllers are the worst, cheapest garbage I've encountered on the "name brand" market.

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