Echoing what @thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com said, I selfhost it and I only have one user…me.

Oldest (32bit)

I still have a functional 32 bit laptop. It’s rather slow, but it does work

Cool. I just figured traversing a Tailscale VPN would be yet another ‘thing’ between you and your gaming partners.

Well, would you look at Mr Moneybags over here. LOL I wish tho. I just have a 1gbit connection.

Ahhhh I do like my grafana dashboards.

Learning and experimenting with things

This is the part I really love.

I use nonstandard ports for just about everything such as Docker containers, including ssh. However, modern bots are quite capable of scanning your server for vulnerabilities, CVE, zero day, and SSH. A non standard SSH port does reduce noise a bit but isn’t a reliable defense against scanners.

• Servers: Ubuntu Jammy
• NUC: Mint xfce
• VMs: Kali, Mint, and a variety of others including WIndows & Mac.

I hear a lot of chatter about NixOS. Going to have to check it out.

I have used searxng for about a year now, I have had quite a few personal gripes

What gripes have you had? Curious. Maybe something I’ve overlooked.

n ot everything the AI companies try to tell us

Of course not. They are sales. They are trying to maximize the profit potential to their investors. I do believe that if we could get some oversight and regulation, as much as I chafe against regulation…it’s necessary, and get past this novelty stage of AI Rice Cookers, I think AI does have a lot of potential.

Waaay out of my field of moderate expertise. Rock it tho!

Do you get a lot of latency with Tailscale?

We have IDEs and all kinds of tools to help us code. AI is just another tool. Granted, it’s a tool that needs some heavy regulation, but a tool nonetheless.

Muuhahahaha!

…and how do you manage those speeds?

I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense…great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you’d say, ‘at my level’. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.

I like that.

Maybe we should have some rating system like Rated PG, or R, etc but for opensource software:

• 100% AI
• AI Assisted
• Human Coded

Can relate.

It really is satisfying. I can’t explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.