I agree, but that doesn’t make me less excited lol. Hideo Kojima is a lil insane but his games have all been a real experience.

2026 will definitely be my year

Not a home owner yet, but I just purchased a home and waiting on the handover.

This post has been really helpful! Certainly in writing some stuff down to remember 😅

Don’t really have a recommendation about which, but I do about how.

For repositories that I deem important, either for practical or nostalgia reasons, I use Gitea to keep an up to date clone. I believe most self hosted Git solutions offer a similar functionality, like Gitlab has one too that I’m aware of.

There are providers that do not provide you your own IPv4 address, with a feature called “CGNAT”. Often, they will then block you from port-forwarding altogether.

I thought after s2 of Discovery, something exactly like that was already a thing?

Or am I misremembering, it’s been a while.

That’s a very good shout, I wasn’t aware there are pre existing lists. That’s a great step, and definitely one I will look to add to my own instance.

My worry is that these social media alternatives might get scraped by these AI companies as well.

Sure, a company handing it over is much easier (i.e. Reddit). But with the decentralized nature, everyone needs to protect their instances themselves, which I’m not sure how well everyone will be capable of doing that.

Definitely much more difficult, so it’s a step in the right direction.

That would be awesome!!

We then know exactly what products to buy because America first! Trump is doing an awesome job and he should really go through with this idea. Maybe if someone tells him privately, then he can say he thought of it.

Oh yeah that’s totally not ominous

Belgium really has some awesome comics! I always thought a bunch of them were Dutch, as they were written in Flanders.

Was quite a funny moment when I figured out most of my favourites were Belgian.

I’ve recently been enjoying Fritz-Kola, which is a german brand of cola. I was also super happy to learn that Red Bull is european!

Gaben is pretty chill, ngl

First of all: take a breath!

Pihole is a great start, and an awesome piece of software. As self-hosting is quite broad, there are quite a few options, so I have two suggestions that should still be relatively simple to continue with, and that I thoroughly enjoyed when getting started.

1. Webservers: Something like Caddy, NGINX or Apache (Caddy being likely the simplest choice here), will allow you host your own website! If you open a port on your router, this website can also be accessed remotely (be careful! Without SSL, you should not expose any forms, to avoid those being leaked). A bit outside the realm of “self-hosting” — but Cloudflare allows you to setup SSL with relative ease and also allows you to link a domain your website.
2. Game Servers: Many options in this space, so take a pick for a game you like! I am an avid minecraft enjoyer, and regularly setup modded servers to play with my friends. You can find some more info here on how to get started with a Minecraft server implementation called “Fabric”

Have fun! And if there is something more specific you’re curious about, feel free to ask 😀