And the one you make at home is always better anyway. Just requires more labor.

It sounds like you’re having trouble containing yourself.

I’ve been hosting my own email servers for 20 years without issue. But email systems were a huge part of my IT career so it was easy.

It works great if you have static IPs and know what you’re doing in terms of following best practices. If you’re missing those two things you’re going to have a bad time.

If you have the statics and want to learn, I’d recommend purchasing a test domain and getting the kinks worked out before you move a domain you care about to your own system.

Is Microsoft posting AI slop memes now? What is this garbage?

I haven’t noticed that so I probably blocked them long ago. You have to do some maintenance on the feed but these things do not pop up constantly.

Meta: Deleted and blocked on my network for 10 years running!

Same. No Apollo no Reddit. Haven’t been back except to delete my account a few weeks later.

I took the networking TCP/IP fundamentals class for my first MCSE in 99, and the instructor wouldn’t shut up about how IPv4 would be replaced within 5 years.

I can’t help but chuckle at people who think they have to pay for ad free YouTube.

Install Firefox with Ublock Origin, or preferably LibreWolf which includes it.

That’s it. Haven’t seen a YouTube ad in…. ever.

I need to get a new VPN setup. Been using OpenVPN through OPNsense for years but I’m fed up with the abysmal performance of the OpenVPN client on iOS. Open to suggestions but it has to be fully self hosted.

He means nobody here fucking cares what the LLM made for you, and it’s definitely not worth sharing.

You’re getting downvoted by the people who have the expertise you claim to want. So pay attention and reflect on what’s being said to you. Otherwise what was the point of posting at all?

The right drugs will get you a real girlfriend.

I guess you are saying you only run Kodi? Yes it is Kodi with the jellyfin plugin talking to a jellyfin server that is the source of the few woes I have with it. Honestly it works really well, but when something is wrong I would say due to the UI it’s beyond most non-technical people to sort it out easily.

Yeah, they’ve got that recorded, too.

You do understand how networking works, yes? They are getting EVERYTHING that goes through a U.S. POP.

It’s cute that you think they don’t have a copy of everything the instant you post it.

They literally have black box rooms inspecting all traffic in all the major internet POPs in the US.

I mean, it’s free and it does work, so I won’t complain, but I wouldn’t push this on any but my most technical friends.

Doing my part to make this a good post, cause it was.

I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugin, but I can’t recommend that for ‘normies’ because the interface is not simple, and I still have glitches with it.

I’m also looking for a solution like yours, but wanted you to have that feedback.

Same to you my friend. Our parents can really fuck us up, but some of us are lucky enough to get the help we need, or find we have the strength inside already, to overcome it and be better people than we were taught.