I had forgotten that you could pay them.

I really liked the concept of this and had high expectation, but I just tried this out following their documentation and not a fan so I'll have to pass / find a better alternative if one exists.

The docker-compose.yml given seems to cause the containers to be lacking permissions to save images and even the DB: logs show images can't be created/saved, restarting the container wipes the DB. No files created at all on the mounted volumes paths. The volume for game files works great though so that's confusing. I can probably troubleshoot that but this is the first container I've ever had such an issue with so I won't bother particularly due to the next points:

On the app itself I was pretty disappointed that it doesn't at the very least extract the files for you, and won't even skip all the manual junk for direct play games that I took the time to name properly with (DP) on the archive files. The reason given is there may be too many manual steps/variations for installation but direct plays don't need any of that.

Given the manual steps required I'll stick to copy/pasting the files off my server to my local games folder, the games themselves being added to steam if I really need to go that far with them.

Sometimes I pirate something that is so terrible that I still feel I'm owed compensation for the time I wasted watching it and the bandwidth I used to download it.

Both. Use imgur or whatever service you like to actually share so you don't have to worry about bandwidth and hosting. Just also keep a local copy of everything, doesn't need to be a beefy server. Just don't let a 3rd party online service be the only copy.

As he finished saying this and exited the room did some shady guy hand him a burlap sack filled with money?

My cast iron pan. I use it for everything that doesn't need to be done in a pot. Even things I probably shouldn't do in a cast iron like stir fry I do anyways because it's just already there and convenient.

For the longest time tipping was very stable and nobody said much but with the covid-inspired tipping greed hopefully you're right. If enough people get pissed off maybe something will happen for tipping to be eliminated. I personally haven't sat down in a restaurant since the end of 2019, haven't done a food delivery since 2021, and that won't change until tipping is gone.

You'll have to use nginx's ACL feature. Like you've discovered once someone has access to the proxy itself, by its very nature it's acting on behalf of the client making the request so firewall rules won't help much there. You'd have to get into packet inspection, and deal with https man in the middle stuff and all that, likely not worth it.

I'm not familiar with nginx proxy manager which you seem to be using but in the config files it'd look like this:

nginx.conf

location / {

    include /etc/nginx/acl_file_name.acl;
    deny all;

   # rest of location config

}

the deny all; at the end means everything that wasn't listed in the ACL file is denied. You could alternatively put the deny all directly in the acl file at the end of the file.

the acl file itself is just a list, i create it in a file for easy re-use, and made up the ".acl" extension because it makes sense.

acl_file_name.acl

allow 192.168.1.0/24;
allow 192.168.2.101;

The hacker in that stock photo has some HTML document open. No wonder they got into the US government's systems.

It's always about choosing the right tool for the job/use case. If all you need is a machine with some storage and to run a few services and you like how unraid works then it's the right tool.

For a lot of other use cases it's the complete opposite and unraid is seen as a pile of garbage.

You must construct additional pylons

I'm hosting a personal instance in my home rack on a VM of 1 CPU / 2GB RAM. My only concern is to see how fast the disk usage grows over time (years?) no idea yet if lemmy cleans up old content or not. I'd imagine not since that defeats the purpose.