For what it's worth, though, you can proxy other services, like Gemini or gopher, through the same proxy for simplicity's sake.

I self host.

I use nginx as a reverse proxy with crowdsec. The backends are nginx and mariadb. Everything is running on Debian VMs or LXCs with apparmor profiles and it's all isolated to an "untrusted" VLAN.

It's obviously still "safer" to have someone else host your stuff, like a VPS or Github Pages, etc, but I enjoy selfhosting and I feel like I've mitigated most of the risk.

I'd imagine that if your job is making YouTube videos, portainer and other graphical abstraction layers probably make more visually interesting videos than just watching someone type out a bunch of commands.

Convenience. Unless you live right near the border, it's probably faster/easier to shop in your own state than drive all the way to another.

But if you do live near the border of a state without a sales tax, then it's pretty common to shop in the neighboring state, especially for larger purchases.

The US doesn't have a national sales tax, so it depends whether the individual state imposes a tax or not.

I mostly learn from mistakes, and since homelabs are all about learning, there are bound to be mistakes.

I've borked my network multiple times, broken VMs, and redesigned things from the ground up, again.

Big lesson is to have backups. Lol

I'm using cloudflare as my nameserver and the free API seems to work just fine with ddclient.

Someone probably just dropped a reel while swapping the tape on their mainframe and has spent the last week trying to roll it all back up.

It never stopped working for me, besides the outage the other day. I'm guessing it's because I'm a mod for a sub. They said from the beginning that they wouldn't break things for mods, and surprisingly, it seems that they've kept their word on that.

Just bought Palworld, but haven't had a chance to play yet.

I have! That actually is a restored file.

I used to back up my save and then start new games to help friends collect the starters. After I traded away the new starters, I'd restore my original save and keep playing, so that save has been backed up and restored a number of times along the way.

I'd like to actually get a dumper at some point so that I can more securely save the file, but for the time being it's saved on the same Mega Memory Card I was using back then.

I think so.

I can't actually remember, as I have had it for about 25 years. I assume I probably replaced it at some point, but batteries in the first Gen games tend to last longer than the later gens, so it might actually be the original.