It’s a bit more complicated but the video I linked suggests using DuckDNS and a Wireguard VPN. It certainly works though in my experience it can be a bit of a pain because of CGNAT. If you have a reliable static or long-lived IP lease on IPv6 though it’s much less clumsy.

It can be a lot, I’m a year in and still feel like a noob. I’ve only just now moved from being behind a cloudflare tunnel to being behind a proper reverse-proxy. That doesn’t mean anything to you yet, it will!

There’s plenty of guides to get started. Louis Rossman did a 12hr guide on selfhosting your entire life (I still haven’t watched the whole thing).

I started here with this guide: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuRWqzfX1ik It’s short, sweet, easy to digest.

If you wanna start super easy.

1. Buy a domain
2. Set up a cloudflare tunnel
3. Roll out whatever using docker
4. Point your tunnel to the docker ports.

This works around CGNAT, and bypasses the need for port forwarding BUT it keeps you reliant on a corpo and keeps all your data moving through their servers, which means low upload limits and your traffic could (see: will) be monitored.

Anything your exposing to the internet should be considered disposable until you know enough to keep a server online safely. Keep backups, offsite. If you have 1 backup, you have no backups. If you only have onsite backups, you have no backups.

Most servers you’re gonna want to run will come with relatively detailed documentation for rolling things out, but when it comes to security you’ll be on your own. This is because the optimal security configuration for your needs depends on your threat model. Until learning proper network security, I’d recommend paying for a VPS to host your servers on and connecting via proxmox or a similar tool, lest you risk leaving gaping security holes in your home network.

Have fun, happy selfhosting, feel free to DM me if you need assistance, I’m not on lemmy often anymore but my inbox goes to my RSS aggregator so I’ll see it.

oh, and PS. Don’t selfhost your email, it’s not worth the hassle.

My 2¢:

I think it’s gamer discourse bleeding out into other fields. Gamers need the newest libraries and the newest drivers or their stuff might not run as well as it possibly could, because gaming is a relatively young but aggressively growing field with the Linux ecosystem in general. Sure games have always been around, but it’s never been the focus.

Now that gamers are switching more frequently, and that the average user is likely to play a game occasionally, it’s becoming relatively important that packages be up to date for desktop workloads.

GTKMM is also GTK–

GTK is the GIMP Tool Kit

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program

GNU is GNU’s Not UNIX

UNIX is UNiplexed Information Computing System

Ergo: GTKMM stands for G(NU’s Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Minus Minus.

GNU is a recursive acronym representing GNU’s Not UNIX.

UNIX is a modified acronym representing UNiplexed Information Computing System (UNICS)

G(NU’s Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System

Wait I need a copy of that one on unexpected wobbling in non-wobbling systems, I need to up my ksp game

And if I carry a modern dumb phone designed for privacy and listen to my music on an mp3 nugget?

Plus it’s not just about privacy, thats just a big thing.

Consider this scenario: every time you want to listen to a song, you have a to grab your record from next to the cocaine, take it over to the record player next to the heroin, and do your best not to shoot up or rip a line while you get everything set up. That’s what using a smartphone is like for a lot of people. There’s nothing wrong with the device itself but the way they’re used as insidious addiction peddlers with the ticky-tocks and the instant-reels and the infinite-scrolling endless stream of mid content and ragebait.

Some people are actively trying to pull out of using their phones for everything. A phone is a phone, its for communicating. If you have a smartphone, sure use it as a PDA. It isn’t for anything else and won’t offer the best experience without concessions, nowadays those concessions often being privacy.

How is the audio quality on those? I’ve got the sp and was considering setting it up as an mp3 player for when I’m off grid but I don’t have the spoons to do if it’s gonna suck.

https://github.com/johna23-lab/p7zip_GUI/releases/tag/16.02

Before I developed this allergy I’d have tacos twice a week, I’d kill to eat tacos again. The best I can do with my allergy is calabacitas on corn and it just doesn’t hit the same.

Shrimp tacos with avocado, lime, onion, grilled peppers, on a flour tortilla.

I’m allergic to literally everything I just mentioned.

OK I’ll bite, what’s the joke?

Every dial pad I’ve ever seen, including old rotary phones, has numbers and letters on it. This is not new. This has been a thing for over 70 years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_keypad#Letters

Based on this, your phone is the problem, not my phoneword.

I don’t actually want that, but yeah that’s totally a thing. Zorin, RHEL, I’m certain there are others with support contracts.

But my free security suite that found 358+ viruses and says I’m missing 200 DLLs said to call 1-800-NO-VIRUS and their technician will fix it over the internet!

You can’t, that’s not immediately obvious when the computer is telling you otherwise

Ed: spelling, also this is a pretty obvious joke… I’m not sure why I have to explain this.

Never want to defend Steve Jobs, but it DID get worse service if you deathgripped the antenna region. That shouldn’t happen, but also, like, c’mon you’re gonna hurt your hand. Steve was right.

IDK friend after 20 years I kinda wish I had the ignorance of the average Windows user. I don’t want to troubleshoot for 3 days, I wanna call a random IT helpline and let them deal with it, but alas, I unfortunately know what I’m doing.

Nothing. Lunduke hates it because woke. His fanboys hate it because sheep.

Oooh what do you use for recoloring web pages?