I was running mango for awhile. even forked and managed to develop some fixes and new features for it.

after the online manga purge of 2025 and sites were taken offline I stopped fucking around with it.

now I use futon.

it’s better than any selfhosted solution I have ever used. highly recommend.

Are you expecting parents ro tag along when their kid geso over to a friends house as a low tech solution?

no, I’m expecting their kids will understand what is acceptable behavior and make choices that are expected of them. I’m also expecting parents to talk with other parents and let them know what’s strictly off limits, and if that’s a problem provide alternative solutions like allowing your kids friends to hang out at your home instead.

And you highlighted that chat didn’t have any controls… but now imagine a parent who doesn’t even know what steam is. They likely also don’t know it even has a chat feature.

as a parent do you know how to care for a child that has leukemia? no? then I guess in your opinion children just have to suffer because their guardian doesn’t know what to do. if a parent can learn how to care for a child with cancer, you can learn how chat works.

Then let’s add that many middle schoolers and up are handed a chromebook at school that they get to take home. And it’s protections are pretty weak.

go to a better school. I pen tested my kids Chromebook, it’s pretty rock solid and everything seemed to be controlled directly by the google school account management.

But the kid needs it to do homework. So you are saying that parents should be sitting with them every second they are on any device.

you should be doing this anyway to help guide and teach them. if you can’t even do that then why did you even have children?

Sorry son, you can’t do your homework right now because I have to make dinner. That’s unreasonable.

as a parent it’s your responsibility to make the time for them. if you can’t do that it doesn’t make you a bad parent necessarily, but it does make you an asshole.

I don’t understand why some of you want to give corporations a pass, and put all the blame on the parents.

because a corporation is about as responsible as a methed out drug dealer that just got out of prison. would you trust your child with that kind of person or are you just too stupid to understand why it’s a poor choice?

from your tone you’re either a child yourself or just a really shitty person who didn’t understand the level of responsibility required to have children.

be better.

Keep in mind that a lot of parents aren’t tech savvy.

not a valid excuse. low-tech solutions can work just as well as high-tech ones.

1. sit with your child when they use the PC
2. no phone unless you are with them
3. explain to them why this is nonnegotiable, just don’t say “because I told you so”

I recently gave my eldest a laptop with steam installed. I was able to set play schedules, time limits, and even shared specific games from my own library. all other access is locked down. except chat, because there weren’t any controls for it (from what I saw). so, I added myself to their list and had a “chat” session with them to show them how it worked.

I then explained to them how dangerous this can be and how some people online might want to hurt them. so the rule is, don’t talk to anyone unless you know them IRL and to come to me if anyone chats with them first.

low-tech solution and it builds trust with minimal risk.

my favorite game growing up was, “Italian plumbers take too many mushrooms and go on a rampage through the kingdom to save the princess from the evil turtle”

although a close second was, “I am trapped in a dark maze with drugs and now there are ghosts chasing me?!?”

yeah, it’s not a problem because you can fix it.

it’s a skill issue.

self hosted gitlab. each server has a repo with all the docker configs and application configs. also have any scripts for the server itself on there as well, things like required libs, network configs, etc.

I also have a repo dedicated for let’s encrypt SSL that retrieves new certs every month. then on each server is an install script scheduled that pulls the certs down, installs them, and restarts any services automatically.

should anything go wrong, I have a siem monitor that will alert me that a service failed to start etc.

currently running four servers like this with varying degrees of complexity.

bingo.

if you don’t understand how it was built then you have no business promoting it.

I wish it would because there’s no way to stop someone from creating an alt to promote their own projects and claim “they didn’t know it was AI” when they knew full well it was.

It’s kind of funny how much people have to lie just to use a stupid tool. either you’re proud of using it and will stand by your decision to use it, or you don’t use it at all and don’t need to worry about backlash.

IMO I think it would benefit both this community and those who want to use AI if there was a completely different community to post AI developed projects on.

they win because nobody will shit on their posts, and we win because nobody has to read slop.

all the problems you expressed with docker aren’t real problems.

I think you may not like it because you don’t know how to use it.

don’t like how often a maintainer updates their images? build your own.

don’t like having multiple bridge interfaces on your host? configure and manage networks within docker and assign them to your containers.

don’t like having dozens of containers with random names? use docker compose. bonus, you can set up networking with it even easier.

fair enough.

my i5 doesn’t have a built in graphics core. it’s just a CPU. this means hardware acceleration for video encoding is intensive.

like I said before too, there are other services that are running on the server as well. things like siem, aggregators, containerized desktops, etc.

thanks for the info though! if I ever upgrade the CPU in the future I’ll definitely get one with a GPU for hardware acceleration.

were you trying to backup a relay or your chatlog?

something that can push at least 2-3 4K streams.

12th gen i5 with 16GB DDR4. Maybe 32GB if I can swing it.

unless you’re transcoding each stream that should work, at least for Plex.

Currently running 10th gen i5 with 32gb of DDR and can run one 4k transcode, five 1080 streams, and four live TV streams. though, the transcode is laggy but if you pause and let it buffer it should work.

keep in mind I’m also running headless transmission, a VPN, tor, and like 8 other services on the same server.

if all you’re streaming is 4k, you will hit a point of diminishing returns on network throughput. I’d recommend getting a switch with SFPs and connect your server up to a 2.5gbe or even a 10gbe (though overkill but the sky is the limit). as long as all your stream boxes are connected through that switch on their regular 1gbe they should be fine.

personally I run a opnsense router/firewall and have everything passed through an unlocked Brocade ICX6610-48P-E. you can find them on eBay. FYI, these are commercial units and are VERY LOUD. basement or attic installation is a must if you don’t have a network closet. bonus, the ICX6610 allows you to turn on/off POE per port and even set the voltage. this means you can power everything from cameras, stream boxes, wireless APs, to even some POE lights. it’s also a managed switch, which means you can split your ports up on VLANs and other really neat things.

simplex requires zero identifiable information.

you have to add users to the trust to get access to the channel/dm.

the relay is self-hosted, meaning you have control over where your messages are handled. this means you could run it entirely on an intranet or pipe it through a lora-wan.

personally I run a local instance within my LAN, and another instance in the cloud. both terminate with the same DNS. this means I can have quick very secure chats with family while at home that never leaves my network and when we’re out messages are still going through my infrastructure.

although I agree with you. their point is that wolverine is an American hero because Marvel is an American company.

I’d like them to at least back up their claims with some evidence.

simplex folks. use simplex.

gamer culture is toxic as fuck.

yet another reason why I stopped playing multiplayer games.

can you share with the class any Canadian comic book heros?

wow…shocking

well, not that shocking…