Victor

connexion

I’m imagining you saying “connex-yun”, and it reminds me of Stewie saying “cool-hhhwip”.

Not what I was saying, no, but it is true, that I don’t own one. 😄

Perfectly valid. 👌

I moved from Ubuntu for the same reasons I moved from Windows, to be honest. I felt like I was losing control of what my system was doing. All this bullshit being forced on me that I didn’t like. I wanted to be able to pick my own DE without uninstalling something else first. Major upgrades would fail sometimes, etc.

Installing Arch was a challenge I was willing to take on. Learned a lot.

I don’t share the trope about Arch Linux users being annoying per se, but the joke about “Arch btw” is just fun to participate in lol. But I don’t think Arch users preach that much. I see way more preaching about Fedora and NixOS, e.g. And like, Mint. 😆 Meanwhile Arch users are just silently enjoying themselves. 🤷‍♂️

Exactly, it just reads like a smug rant.

Oh, it’s just a list of pro Linux items but in reverse psychology… Kay.

I’m already a Linux user, I was kinda curious about a listing of actual reasons Linux might not be for someone.

I just felt increasingly like I didn’t have control over my system. And Gnome 2 was looking sick to me at the time, I loved the look. 👌

Started with Ubuntu for a few years and now I’ve been on Arch for over a decade I believe.

Web dev, Linux at home and work. Works fine for my scenario.

That’s the most lucrative desk I’ve seen I think.

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Yikes on the Nobara experience. Will avoid. Not that I ever felt the need to explore or hop beyond Arch. Discord as the main communication channel? That screams immature project IMO.

I have the same experience as you with Arch. In probably a decade of use I’ve only reinstalled when buying new computers. It’s just so solid. I use it both for work and at home. 👌

Do you find that Arch bothers you in any way, would you say? How if so?

Awesome, same 😊 All the best to you buddy!

Thanks again, mate. So basically, if I’m exposing my junk to the world, and by junk I mean service(s), and by world I mean the open internet, I should do it using a reverse proxy and enable HTTPS, otherwise it’s not really very secure? Would that be a reasonable takeaway?

Yet again, thanks. Especially for pointing out the things you (may) be not so sure about. That’s admirable. 🫡

Okay cool, thanks for that follow-up and confirming my SHH setup seems reasonable. 🙏

There’s one thing I don’t really get though, with the whole reverse proxy thing and how that’s supposedly safer:

putting the resilient software (a good reverse proxy) infront of Jellyfin (or most other software) simply increases your security by having the more safe web server be the one interfacing with end users.

Like, once a user client has contact with the Jellyfin instance, via the reverse proxy, wouldn’t the Jellyfin instance be just as vulnerable as without the reverse proxy? Once a connection is established, or found to be available, you could just start exploiting away in the same way, right? Or wrong? If wrong, how? 😅 Maybe it’s too long for a text reply? Maybe I should watch some helpful video explaining how it works. 😁

Yes, even without this current news.

https://forgejo.org/compare-to-gitea/

Yeah can’t have that

Could you explain a bit more?

Like, right now, I have two machines on my local network. Both are running sshd on port 22.

In my router, I’ve set the port forwarding to be some high port number in the 19000’s to forward to port 22 on the first machine, and then the same high port number incremented by one (1) to forward to port 22 on the second machine.

Also key based login only of course.

Is this insecure in some way?

Would a VPN make connecting to my computers more secure somehow? I’m not sure I understand how if so.

What I meant with the Jellyfin question was kind of, how is having it exposed via a reverse proxy different from exposing its port right away? Is it because the only allowed connection would be HTTPS/encrypted etc, maybe?

I’ve never set up a home network apart from physical cables and using routers and switches before, no advanced site/network configuring. Definitely interested to learn more though for when I want to serve a real media center using a NAS and like a Pi.

This sounds like a blocker for me to not switch to Jellyfin… What else is in there that’s equally severe?

having your ssh port blocked in the firewall being second

So like if I want to access my PC from outside, is it enough that I don’t have a firewall installed but that I open up some random port and redirect it to my PC’s port 22, and then connect to it via the random port?

make sure you aren’t accidentally exposing jellyfins port directly to the internet

Same thing for Jellyfin?