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As more of an outside observer here:

When I was still using Reddit, it looked like most people in that community were just running personal home media servers using basic as fuck raspberry pi setups or just old hardware that could handle it, like maybe a modded Xbox or something.

Here on Lemmy, it looks more like you’re all actual networking specialists hosting damn near everything from home automation to business-level server systems for your home business. You guys are serious; Reddit isn’t. Respect.

A small home media server running off a raspberry pi could be that cheap.

Only if it didn’t have an insane markup for being pre-built.

$150.

(Also usually speed and/or capacity along with higher quality components)

How severe is this vulnerability?

You don’t need a static IP to have a domain name

That’s why I said or. You need a static address of some kind for Lemmy; be it just an IP or a domain name. I haven’t seen domain names given away for free since I was in high school; where would you get one now?

I recall seeing talk about how Lemmy instances require a domain name. If that’s true, you’d at least have to have a static IP if not pay for an actual domain name. I haven’t tried to start one up myself though. Mostly because if that is truly a requirement, I wouldn’t be able to.

“People bad.”

GiveMeMoney.com

A bit of both. It really depends on the game. Some games are super simple, just launch an executable and hand out the IP. Others are needlessly complicated or just horribly coded. My example game is just an absolute mess all around even just as a player; running a server is no different. And since the actual game is all user-made, sometimes the problem is the server software, and sometimes it’s how the mission you’re running was coded. Sometimes it’s both.

For my local media server? Practically none. Maybe restart the system once a month if it starts getting slow. Clear the cache, etc.

When I hosted game servers: Depending on the game, you may have to fix something every few hours. Arma 3 is, by far, the worst. Which really sucks because the games can last really long, and it can be annoying to save and load with the GM tool thing.

I don’t do anything that warrants it, but if I did have sensitive data that I was worried about being stolen, those drives would be in a system completely cut off from the Internet to prevent remote theft, and encrypted in the event of a physical theft. If I was especially paranoid, I’d booby trap the drives to wipe themselves if they are tampered with.

I probably would have if I had heard about it before I reformatted last (it wasn’t that long ago). I didn’t feel like re-installing again so soon. I have it bookmarked for later though.

It does tho? That’s all I use it for.

Must’ve glossed over that. My bad. I don’t know if the default Windows photo viewer itself does any of the editing stuff anymore. It used to back on Windows 7 and for a time you could still install it on Windows 10. It was like Google Photos is on mobile, basically.

Paint can do all that and you should already have it installed if you’re on Windows.

Nothing aside from losing any traffic if people don’t know the IP address directly to the server. All a domain does is redirect traffic to the website with an easy to remember name.

I still use Keep. That have yet to fuck it up, but I’m sure they will eventually. Just like every god damn thing they do.

You could be tied to a specific piece of shit you don’t like because it’s what your job requires you to use.

I had to work with Salesforce and when I’d complain about it, Id be given all sorts of alternatives. These are nice but… The dude in charge of what the rest of us had to use liked Salesforce, so we all suffered.

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