The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option…

residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.

I have documented my journey here: https://wiki.gardiol.org/

On short, rent a vps and setup wireguard, then start self hosting everithing you can put yours hands on!!

Is this real or a joke?

Hey, you forget about Gentoo Linux!

The real distro for newbies… (Provided the newbies are expert cs graduated and crazy nerds…)

All depends on what a beginner is… Not all beginners are tech illiterates or people who only want to use office.

Daily toward all my three locations:

• local on the server
• in-house but on a different device
• offsite

But not all three destinations backup the same amount of data due to storage limitations.

1 backup on a local, Independence disk. 1 backup on a HDD connected to an OpenWRT router at the other end of the house 1 backup on my remote vps.

Restic+backrest

Sftp for remote endpoint

I use and love nginx.

Maybe a bit more old fashioned than more modern solutions, but steady solid and versatile. I use it as reverse proxy ad well as proxy for php stuff and more.

Laws serve the purpose of protecting ownership and owners, that defines what is lawful or not.

So, it is working as intended.

Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don’t own the games only a license to use those games.

And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

This doesn’t matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

Don’t get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don’t think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.

Mostly us stuff, never heard of one in Europe

Running a business works better if you have a steady flow of income. I don’t blame them for trying.

But I vote with my wallet.

I stick to open source apps more and more, and not only for the lack of subscriptions.

I stay away from any subscription like that. It works like credit cart debt: you pile it and in no time you bleed money like no tomorrow.

I understand the need of the Dev for a reasonably guaranteed flow of money, specially for online services, but also keep a software house going cost money.

But I am free to choose where not to put my money.

Its like running a marathon: you do it for the journey, not for the medal at the end.

(Disclaimer: you do it for the medal. But you would do it anyway, even if there is no medal, because its the journey that makes it worthwhile)

Absolutely. After living 10 years with a person like you, leaving her was the best of my life and I should have done that sooner.

I have to add more, to be honest with you.

The reasons why she was bad for me where deeper than just the rage issue alone. That was probably the lesser issue, so don’t be afraid.

But I strongly suggest that you start a serious and sincere path with a good phycologist as that has the potential to help you control and understand the issue.

Yourself, and the people who care about you, will thank you for that.

Don’t over think and go for it.

Working on testing stalwart… And will need to organize and document properly my various nft rules and routing tables, because its slightly getting out of hand…

Thanks for the fun read! You made my day.

And in a lifetime on linux I never noticed the Ctrl+y stuff.

A forum is good for searches. Social media is good for blind repost and “me me me” posting.

That’s life

So sad we abandoned the forum approach.

After 20+ years of hosting my email in a similar way (postfix…) I decoded to explore the “all in ones” like stalwart and mailcow.

Stalwart looks promising because its a new approach, supposedly more streamlined and efficient. Will post back in a few months.

I am not worried about stalwart dual license, the overall feeling seems to be of trust.

I have started testing out stalwart, seems pretty nice, bit way too early to give you reasonable feedback.

If you are looking for an innovative approach to email server stalwart is the new boss in town.

If you want proven and stable, mailcow might be your easy choice.

Both can be deployed with containers, I did with podman.

I don’t see anything wrong here. Ram is supposed to be always as full as possible.

What is not needed by running programs should be full of disk pages cached. A system with lots of free ram is oversized or abnormal.

Also, today’s kernels require swap space. On disk is a must for a server, and maybe consider even zram.

Having swap will allow the kernel to organize it’s memory usage even better.

Don’t over think ram as that is a field in which you will be wrong and the kernel will be right 99%.