You could maybe do this with tailscale: all your devices will be reachable from each other, and you can specify that you want the external one to be the exit node. It uses wireguard under the hood.

Seconding this, it is very convenient if your router supports a good provider. But it is better imo to use a good provider with a helper script on your server than to stick with your router defaults if they’re not that good.

I recommend afraid.org, you get everything that you need for free dynamic dns, and they’re a cool project so someday you may like to do even more with them or send them a little donation.

I started with noip first, and the monthly re-up was so annoying.

Wait so does the client install the game on the local machine, or does the game run on the server like steam link?

I would second kubuntu as I use it daily, but I don’t mind the snaps.

He lost me at “Public Webproxy” I don’t know how to do that and it sounds expensive.

Dude I wish USA had this.

If I’m going for Ryzen 8 core first Gen, can I find that in a dell optiplex or Lenovo thinkstation? Or should I search something else?

I could get by with 2 HD bays – it is more because I would like to use RAID if possible, and have an easier time to upgrade to larger capabilities as time goes on.

I’ve also just appreciated larger cases with more room – with small cases sometimes it’s hard to work in there.

Internal redundancy would be nice to have with a file server, but probably not necessary if I can have redundancy with regular backups instead.

Thanks for the ideas!

I’ve been bitten before by these non standard things… thanks for the reminder.

Many indie games are PC only and are unlikely to ever be ported to a Nintendo platform – mostly because it’s a lot easier to play them on new PCs. As Nintendo products age, emulation can be one of the only ways the games stay playable.

This is very practical advice, thanks for the point in the right direction.

The problem is the motherboard has some blown caps and in general the system is not very stable as is.

From the other advice it sounds like I should get a used PC and just use a USB floppy drive if I ever need one.

Cool, so this puts yt-dlp on Kodi and downloads videos before watching them. Hopefully this works better for older hardware than the YouTube plugin, which I think has to use more computationally expensive methods to stream from YouTube directly with the cat and mouse game between yt and them.

Do you know, does it keep the video files it downloads, or does it delete them automatically?

How do you get sponsorblock to integrate? You’re talking about anxdpanic’s YouTube addon right? https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/releases

I think maybe YouTube a/b tests us so it works better for some people. For me it often crashes, I assume due to overheating on my raspi 4.

YouTube support is unfortunately spotty, via the YouTube addon that they are in a constant cat and mouse game with Google. It often makes my pi overheat because of the nonsense it has to do.

I wish libreelec could launch a browser with Firefox, ublock, and sponsorblock

I was initially very concerned that you were trying to install a 13+ year old version of Ubuntu, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). Now I just feel old.

Does pine pods do syncing?

I’ve never used Antenna Pod, but I’ve used Podcast Addict for more than a decade, I’ve paid for the pro app, and I’ve been really impressed by what it can do.

I like to have many podcasts downloaded to my phone, and Podcast addict has really granular controls for what to download and keep for how long, in the general case, and for each podcast you can dial in custom settings, for example not auto-downloading or deleting. It helps me have plenty of audio to listen to at all times without blowing up the storage on my phone.

The various automatic playlists for downloaded episodes, new episodes, and recent episodes are also very useful to me.

I’ve found the developer to be really nice and he will personally respond to bug reports and support requests if anything doesn’t go as planned.

If you are mostly hosting files, open media vault has minimal command line, and it’s mostly administered through a web admin. It’s still fairly complex however, and I definitely recommend reading the manual thoroughly and sticking with easy tasks at first. https://www.openmediavault.org/