Good call, I haven’t yet but I think I should in any case. I got big plans for this little fella and network administration is one of the gaps in my education I’ve been meaning to fill in for a while now.

They’re both functioning as routers at the moment, the topology is:

internet fiber cable <---> ISP Router <---> OpenWRT Router <---> (ideally VPN'd) client devices

Both routers are handling DHCP on their own LANs, and if the OpenVPN service is stopped, clients connected to the OpenWRT router can connect to the internet without any apparent issue.

I don’t think so, I’m not trying to do port forwarding or anything like that, I just want the secondary router to be treated like a regular client by the ISP router (that only sends traffic to the VPN). Thanks for the rec though, if I can’t get the native client working I’ll give Gluetun a shot.

EDIT: I added some rules for UDP ports 1194 and 5060 to the ISP router just in case there was some back traffic that wasn’t getting back to the client, restarted the server and same result, Host Unreachable :(

It came with the ovpn config file I got from Proton, and I can reach it when the openvpn service is down. Not sure why I can’t hit it (or anything else) with the service up but I think there’s something wrong with how the service is capturing traffic from the wan interface. Not really sure but that’s where my head is at ATM.

It does something similar, in that you can replicate servers and have one act as a failover for another, but I think you’d need a lot of extra code to sync the primary game host with the failover hosts, and more to make sure all the clients detect a failed host and all gracefully switch to the same failover host, and probably a hundred other things I’m not thinking of. If I were going to build something like this I probably would look to kubernetes as a foundation but there would be a lot of customization on top of that.

I love this idea. As others have said, a distributed game server would be a really tall order, and AFAIK there’s not really anything already made that does what you’re describing. But you could have a setup where one server hosts the game and syncs the game state with the other servers in the network, and if one server fails the network decides which failover server to connect to, all the clients connect to that server and continue playing on the new host. But it would be a gargantuan task to implement something like that.

My computer was getting older and slower and I couldn’t afford a new one and wanted to squeeze as much performance out of it as I could. That and, I heard it was all the rage with hackers and I fancied myself a bit of a hacker.

This is why I still don’t know sed and awk syntax lol. I eventually get the data in the shape I need and then move on, and never imprint how they actually work. Still feel like a script kiddie every time I use them (so once every few years).

I didn’t realize it until after she died, but I mourned my relationship with my mom for years before she actually kicked the bucket. I had long since accepted that she didn’t want to have any kind of relationship with me and that I would almost certainly never have any meaningful relationship with her, unless she had a serious change of heart. So I just assumed that I would never speak to her again. Then when she actually died, it just kinda… ticked from 0.1% chance to 0.0% chance. Still felt shitty to have it finally close on that note, but I hadn’t really expected anything different. I still sometimes wonder if I could have had some kind of breakthrough conversation with her but the reality is that she made her choices and there was nothing I could do to change her mind.

it’s an extra hurdle, but it’s far from a guaranteed barrier. There’s a whole class of exploits called container escapes (or hypervisor escapes if you’re dealing with old-school VMs) that specifically focus on escalating an attack from a compromised container into whatever machine is hosting the container.

I don’t think we have one. I think we’re all just players, and we make up the game as we go along.

Thanks ❤️ I really wish I knew what to do, because I still have relatives on both sides that are deep in the cult. Not to mention my inlaws 🤦 They occupy a spectrum of dangerous / crazy and some of them I don’t talk to at all, some I still talk to occasionally but it’s hard to figure out where the cutoff line is. I think I’ve had some productive conversations around how dangerous Trump / MAGA are, but it’s hard to tell because I think the effects only manifest in the long term really and it’s hard to tell whether I’m helping or just pushing them away. I don’t think anyone suddenly has a lightbulb and thinks “Oh god, I’m in a cult”, at least not in my experience. It’s more gradual and requires sustained conversations, which incidentally is why cults generally encourage victims to cut off family members who aren’t also in the groupthink. So, I just try to meet the ones I don’t think would likely try to kill me for being trans where they are and do my best to be a good influence in the sphere of influence I have.

As for the reroll, lol I hear ya, but as a wise wizard once said, “so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

My parents were both… medium-core republicans. Didn’t go to rallies or buy swag, but they weren’t interested in non-R candidates or ideas. Dad died of covid before the vaccine was available. Pre-existing immune deficiencies. He was one of the ones they couldn’t fit in the morgues because they were all full. My mom watched all this happen, still refused to get vaccinated, got covid twice (that she told me of) and died of “complications from asthma” two years after the vaccines were generally available. IDK what role covid played in her death but I doubt it helped much. I really don’t know what I could have said to her if watching dad pass in isolation wasn’t enough. I think about it a lot though.

I’m glad it’s not just me lol every so often I’ll think “I haven’t done a python project in a while I’ll try FastAPI” or something and I have so many issues just getting the env set up.

Whoever proposes a coherent Quantum Theory of Homosexuality is gonna win a fields medal.

Nice, I appreciate the analysis. I’m still early enough on with Jellyfin that I’m still willing to ascribe every issue to user error but I think I see what you mean. But I keep telling myself that I will contribute to a large multi-dev OSS project at some point and still never have; contributing code in public is still kinda nerve-wracking. maybe if I have a selfish enough reason to fix something I’ll finally push through that 😆

Good question; I did not know what Emby is until just now. I will explore it some more, I’m having issues getting the jellyfin ios/android clients to connect consistently to my server so I might ultimately do that instead / in parallel but I’m leery of freemium solutions.

I finally set up Jellyfin and Sonarr! I’ve been using Plex and manually managing torrents for a while now, recently found the *arr services and they are very impressive. Got the Jackett - Sonarr - Jellyfin - Nginx stack set up, now working on getting SSL + DynDNS so I can make it available remotely. Also accidentally blasted my ratio downloading a bunch of TV shows all at once so gotta seed up for a bit before i fill it out more. But so far the setup has been pleasantly breezy for how complex a setup it is ❤️