Torrent available when?

Yup. And the official training books are still a great resource for learning everything from the basics to more advanced stuff.

I bought an updated set a couple of years ago, and they still hold up.

It is? I always wrote labels that way, so that the sensitive part could face down in the storage box.

Once in a while you encounter software that, while proprietary, proves that even if you’re doing closed source software, you don’t have to be an asshole about it.

I don’t remember which hardware I was mucking about with, but when trying to do something with the firmware that I wasn’t supposed to do, I was given a warning, a recommendation to back up everything, and a simple pointer on what to do if whatever insanity I was doing didn’t work.

Stupid indeed, but of utmost importance.

Probably around the same time I managed to find a used 386 for sale cheaply, and I bought it. I could play some of the early greats such as Dune 2, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, while others were playing CD ROM games such as Red Alert.

But I didn’t care because I was still having fun, and lack of too many distractions allowed me to dive deeply into the fundamentals. When they moved on to the next cool game, I taught myself turbo Pascal and played with the serial ports and an old AT modem.

A few years later I got myself a 166MHz (MMX!) and got properly online (IRC, ICQ, etc) along with the rest and they had a hard time understanding how I was immediately so much better at understanding “their” stuff from the start than they ever would be.

I’ve used this a lot in the past at work. I see now that it’s discontinued, but I’m sure they have a new thing in its place. tiny, easy to use, and a huge time saver.

Super. Similar to how it’s used in windows

Ambiguous headline. Is he dead or not?

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They do

Plus, if you end up accidentally locking yourself out if your own system: boot access means root access (Secure your IPMI/iDRAC, folks!)

Added one in the OP

It’s my go-to for whenever I need something on screen from the terminal, such as when I want to test X forwarding over SSH

I’m far from an expert, but I’ve been using Hetzner for close to 20 years at this point. Both their VPSes and the actual rent-a-server.

I skimmed the article and I didn’t notice anything blatantly bad in the approach. So they have my approval.

+1 for rdiff-backup. Been using it for 20 years or so, and I love it.

By living in the middle of fucking nowhere. I haven’t locked my front door in over a year.

Why not go truly selfhosted and build your own? Any PC + JBOD + ZFS, then add whichever services you need. NFS or SMB should get you a long way.

Plenty of guides out there.

I started hosting stuff before containers were common, so I got used to doing it the old fashioned way and making sure everything played nice with each other.

Beyond that, it’s mostly that I’m not very used to containers.

Are you able to ask your ISP customer service to set up port forwarding for you?

At minimal you want HTTP (Port 80) but you probably want HTTPS (443) as well. If you’re hosting DNS as well you will need port 53 too.

Have those ports routed to the “inside” IP of the machine you want to use, and the rest of it is basically just setting up the webserver (and possibly DNS) to serve your domain.

NB: While on the phone with your ISP, ask them what the DHCP lease time is. Ideally you want a static IP for your setup.