Obsidian might work for you

In the 2000s and early 2010s, less of your life was lived on a cell phone or smartphone.

For kids now, it’s 100% of their lives. Post-COVID, the majority of social interaction between peers is through a social media app.

That means that close to 100% of kids are on their phones during the school day. If you aren’t, you run the risk of social isolation and FOMO.

Administrators can’t send a kid to detention for using their phone because ALL kids would be in detention every day.

Here’s one article that examines the problem

Surprised no one has mentioned The Expanse series. A ton of world building in very different kinds of environments. Space stations, small ships, big ships, generation ships, asteroids, moons, planets.

The environments are well thought out in how the residents would need to adapt

Are you using services running on the OS, Docker or VMs?

With Docker you can set the Network and have some containers traffic egress on the vpn while others have no WAN or direct access. You can have a container join multiple networks to have the best of both worlds.

With VMs, you can set the network interface

With the OS, you might be able to set network interface for each service, but I don’t know how

Create a configuration file. https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp has the documentation

Columbus is a great little city in a not so great state. The local politics are quite progressive and the food and bar scene is quite nice. There was a decently sized queer community when I lived there a decade ago, and I’d expect it to continue to flourish as long as a major university is nearby.

Winters are cold. Summers are hot. The weather is what it is 🤷🏻‍♀️

I wonder if you’d like Sleigh Bells. Twee pop vocals over grungy guitar. A lot of fun

Tailscale?

What about NetData?

I run QB through a docker container that’s an always on VPN

Then the xArr apps are in the same virtual network as QB. They run without a VPN

1. Cloudflare free tier
2. Cloudflare wildcard cert (I use one domain with many subdomains)
3. Docker container for dyndns to cf
4. Nginx proxy manager

MAM has a great collection

I’ve done both bare metal and docker. I find containers much easier to manage, troubleshoot and deploy

I agree with using rsync.

Open a screen then use something like this command:

rsync -arvzip --progress {$remote}:/path/to/remote/files /path/to/local/files

If you are using a different port for SSH, you’ll need to pass an option like -e 'ssh -p 12345'

ProtonVPN, AirVPN and PIA all support port forwarding iirc

Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?

My setup uses some docker containers to:

1. Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
2. Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
3. Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
4. Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication

We are still in the early days of the fediverse. Once this thing gets figured out and stabilized, I think we could see some progress in consolidating duplicate communities…

But does the broader group of users want this model?

I would rather see instances focused on topics with niche communities within them.

For example, a lemmy.POLITICS instance with communities for WORLD, US, EU, LATAM, etc

There are some options for Pis like unraid.

Honestly though, just pick one problem you have and solve that with docker.

Beat your head against the wall trying to figure out the virtualization, volume mapping, permissions and networking.

Then start finding other problems to solve.

I stood up a homelab for media storage and streaming… and it has now grown to 30-40 applications running in parallel.

Is Reddit as a business responsible for providing a livelihood for a third party developer? What would they be suing over? On what grounds?