Glad to hear I could help you out!

I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.

I did a little tinkering with my server and it should be globally accessible for now, I do want to keep this server some-what restricted so this may change, I got Anubis setup as the captcha/bot check. Hope it makes accessing it easier.

I found a security flaw in the setup I had, unfortunately had to revert to my previous setup.

Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher

While true, Invidious instances were dropping like flies due to the amount of maintenance needed to keep it alive, Invidious admins shouldn’t be flagging you for using a user agent switcher.

I’m not sure of your nationality however, if you’re looking for an invidious instance I host one for folks with Canadian IP’s at https://inv.halstead.host/

Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.

If I’m not mistaken Freetube can either use Invidious instances to proxy video playback or directly connect to YouTube servers, have you verified neither of these work?

Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?

Libreddit died when Reddit made the APi change a couple years back, RedLib which is a fork is maintained.

I also host a Redlib instance at https://lib.halstead.host/ again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.

Baffling

Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!

This is the Firefox extension I use, I would check the headers your browser passes with WhoAmI to verify your user-agent, alternatively you can use invidious to get around YouTube’s bullshit.

I host a public Invidious instance for folks with a Canadian IP - https://inv.halstead.host/

I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.

I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.

Ah man, my boss wants to get our department Meta glasses for taking pictures of parts we make, we literally get a bonus on our pay cheques for us having our phones on us an be reachable.

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While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.

• SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

Why is 255 off limits? What is 127.0.0.0 used for?

Hypothetically you’re working on an application but you don’t want that application exposed to the internet, you would use localhost to either expose it to 1 machine on your network or network wide by opening a port and telling the application to listen on the private IP assigned by your router.

Advanced setup would include a reverse proxy to forward the requests from the applications port to the internet, the reverse proxy would use port 80:80 (http) & 443:433 (https), so the flow would look a little like this -

Internet > Reverse Proxy listening on 80:80 & 443:443 > Application listening on 8080:8080

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Why does it span to .254? Well this is another advanced setup but if you wanted to segregate two application on different subnets you can. I’m not sure if there is a security benefit by adding the extra hop but the option is there.

Yes, back up your stuff regularly, don’t be like me and break your partition table with a 4 month gap between backups. Accomplishing 4 months of work in 5 hours is not fun.

To add to this - localhost spans 127.0.0.1-127.254.254.254

so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

Yes, they only provide country, province/state and city. As others mentioned if you’re worried about this information get yourself a reliable VPN provider and, route all your devices through said VPN provider, ideally through your router.

When picking a VPN provider it is highly recommended to read their Privacy Policy before signing up, ensure they don’t log data.

Nowadays it’s about who has the most “designer” clothing, I wouldn’t call a Yeezy designer.

It’s a widget you can add to the Home Screen or side-bar, it lets you glance at your phone, watch, airpods and airpod case battery.

something that’s as close as windows in perfomance as windows 10 is

You’ll notice better load times on Linux 9 times out of 10 than any variant of Windows. With that being said, I would suggest Kubuntu.

“Technically” my jellyfin is exposed to the internet however, I have Fail2Ban setup blocking every public IP and only whitelisting IP’s that I’ve verified.

I use GeoBlock for the services I want exposed to the internet however, I should also setup Authelia or something along those lines for further verification.

Reverse proxy is Traefik.

If you aren’t already familiarized with the Docker Engine - you can use Play With Docker to fiddle around, spin up a container or two using the docker run command, once you get comfortable with the command structure you can move into Docker Compose which makes handling multiple containers easy using .yml files.

Once you’re comfortable with compose I suggest working into Reverse Proxying with something like SWAG or Traefik which let you put an domain behind the IP, ssl certificates and offer plugins that give you more control on how requests are handled.

There really is no “guide for dummies” here, you’ve got to rely on the documentation provided by these services.

Me: Siri turn lights on

Siri: Now playing Bon Jovi’s “Wanted dead or alive”

Me: Siri shut the fuck up, you have one job, do that job

You aren’t trapped though! Come to Canada!

And this is how we achieved a population greater than what our housing can support. Unless you’re ready to fork over 1200-2k a month for a 1 bedroom & 1 bathroom then I would advise against this.