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Ditching the VPN and port forwarding the selfhosted way
  • Thanks for the feed back. I started out with that post I referenced in my article, which had fewer entries. It didn't work. Caveat was although the online port checkers were reporting the port as open, it was not actually making through the tunnel!

    I actually solved it by asking chatgpt!! I put in the suggestions and it worked. I'm also no expert on creating iptables, but once it was in place it seemed self explanatory.

    I ran netcat as client-server to test it actually worked.

  • The minimalism of Jerboa app is unparalleled

    So I've just found out about Lemmy. (Although I'm a big FOSS enthusiast)

    Choose this app for my Android device, and boy nothing beats it's minimalism!

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    Building out my jellyfin media server question
  • Since you're already building a custom server, isn't it just better to include HDDs in there, and have a single box? (just get a bigger case, SFF for example) It'd be good for power consumption as well. What are you trying to achieve with a separate NAS?

  • Ditching the VPN and port forwarding the selfhosted way

    For folks that are unable to port forward on the local router (eg CGNAT) I made this post on doing it via a VPS. I've scoured the internet and didn't find a complete guide.

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