That's correct. I think it's very similar here in some European countries. And in my opinion it also means the terms of service of lot of those AI generators are meaningless. Since they also don't own any copyright on the content you generate on their platforms, you can just sell it anyways. Even if they prohibit that.

And to add on the whole issue: All the AI stuff isn't yet settled ultimately (in court.) You'd need to wait a few years to be absolutely sure. But despite being trained on copyrighted material, these tools don't reproduce it one to one. I mean theoretically they probably might be capable, but usually that's not what's happening. So most things should be safe for the user. BUT: It's not all about copyright. There is trademark law and other things. And AI might very well draw a Mickey Mouse or other things and it might not be okay to sell those.

I think 30% is a fairly common number. That's also the exact share Google, Apple take if you're a programmer and sell Apps on their platform. And probably also what you're facing when selling online courses or other things. I'd be surprised if a platform that also offers some infrastructure, takes less than say 20 or 30%.

Authentik, Authelia, Keycloak, KaniDM come to mind.

That'd be identity providers / authentication servers or SSO solutions. But with most (/all?) of them, you'd have to program the payment logic yourself.

I think there are webshops, platforms to sell online courses and ERP or eCommerce software that can do both payment and authentication. I'm not a expert on that.

I think most solutions are either custom solutions that have been programmed by the people themselves (at least to some degree) or some of the big, commercial (and proprietary) platforms to sell online courses and memberships.

But don't search for "userbase [...]" that's a term I've never heard of. Search for "membership", "identity management", "single sign-on", "eCommerce" and "Stripe" (because it's one of the largest payment providers. And I'd have a look at the eCommerce world. Usually it's difficult to find something good. Most of them want a share of your revenue and aren't entirely open source. Maybe something to sell online courses with, is more likely to have the things you need.

That's a bit more elaborate then 'usual'. But not unheard of. I spoke to some people here on Lemmy who have put their cheap IoT devices on a separate Wifi. And guest networks are fairly common. IMHO those should be easier to set up on OpenWRT.

Regarding the cheap 'chinesium' smart devices: I hope you're aware of projects like Tasmota, ESPHome and OpenBeken... I'm not that much into making everything smart, but I also have some smart sockets, LED strips and stuff. I had some luck with the first devices I bought and after that I payed attention to just buy things where I could replace the firmware. So for me they all communicate with my own MQTT broker and Home Assistant directly, and there isn't any firmware on them any more that'd talk to the china cloud.

It's not that easy though. Some require opening and flashing via an USB to serial adapter. And lots of devices aren't supported by aftermarket firmwares at all. Especially the more elaborate ones.

Thx for the description. I'll try it.

Whatever floats your boat. If you don't need it, you don't need it. I have some services exposed to the outside on the standard port and I need a reverse proxy to make that possible. It also does the https with letsencrypt certificates. It's a bit more comfortable managing them all in the reverse proxy. But I also have some webinterfaces of other less important software that is fine running on some IP on port 5102 and I don't worry configuring something to change that. I don't think there is a "should" unless you need to encrypt the traffic or expose that service to somewhere. And it's also not wrong to do it.

I think I'd like to go with your answer. I'm pretty sure I had cognac and didn't like it. In the context of this post I'm afraid I can only accept answers from black dudes, though.

So French Cognac from the actual city of Cognac...

How does it taste? I mean stereotypes aside... Is it good? Maybe they can turn a blind eye if it's really nice booze.

To add a bit: With VLANs you can have several 'virtual' cables inside of a real (physical) cable. You probably don't need it in a home setup, I'm not sure. It's for use cases like you just have one ethernet port or one cable running through the wall, but you need two (or more) entirely separate networks on the other side. Like the telephone network or the seperate server network along with the normal network, all over one cable. It works by tagging all the network packets. In the end it's just a number that gets attached to the packets and the other side knows how to handle the packets with those additional numbers attached to them. And it can send them out through different ports again.

At home, most people just have one network, so that kind of functionality isn't needed. Some people put their TV set, NAS or the smart home devices or their home office and/or guests in different networks so the devices can't mess with each other. A VLAN might be handy for those kind of things. And OpenWRT has VLANs, too, since there are two separate networks attached (as with every router). In this case the WAN side, going to your ISP, and your LAN. If you have a router with like 5 ports on the back, you can map those to either port if you change the VLAN settings. The labeling (WAN/LAN) from the manufacturer is just the default with OpenWRT.

Hmm. I had another look on my laptop. I might have to revise my answer: I have all the 5 uBlock lists, EasyList plus EasyList Germany and EasyPrivacy... And a few smaller ones are enabled, too. BUT I don't think those unmaintained lists I mentioned show up in uBlock anyways. So you might be fine enabling all of them.

I still think it doesn't helps after some point... But it's definitely not as bad as I said earlier... At some point I'll have to brush up my knowledge.

I trust my computer and operating system. And there are several other keys and credentials stored on that laptop. I think it's better for me to have a file that I can backup and understand how the encryption works, than to do some trickery to hide it mostly from me and maybe a bit from malware, or tie it to some hardware TPM device or something. I'm always not sure if I should rely on those too much.

Linux.