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  • The problem is not the difficulties of any of these… if you are reasonably skilled you’ll master any of them… given enough time.

    When I was a student I maintained a Slackware up/running/updated for my gf at the time… was it hard? No but it was a gigantic waste of time… and what I learned is not comparable to the amount of wasted time.

    Same with OpenBSD… I love that operating system for networking (the most elegant firewall/netfilter I ever seen) but (1) didn’t have support for multi cpu for a looong time (2) drivers either worked out of box magically or good luck

    All people you mentioned have better things to do than babysit an operating system and Debian (fedora I don’t use for decade, can’t say) is a pretty reasonable compromise of not treating you like a kid and not making you waste time










  • This is the beauty of two party system.

    In Italy at the time of Berlusconi (interesting guy, very similar to another powerful guy of today), there was a two party system… and these conversations happened.

    The situation got unblocked when another major left leaning party emerged… for then now having a neo fascist in power… so things are not so easy anyway






  • You need static IP only if you want to host the autoritative DNS server for your domain (spoiler alert: you don’t).

    You don’t need to proxy your traffic via VPS (higher latency for no good reason) and the dyndns providers are over priced.

    What you need is:

    • Buy your domain
    • Use a free DNS provider (I used for years the excellent dns.he.net but it is a bit cumbersome. Nowadays I gave up and I now use cloudflare without any proxying, just pure DNS)
    • Point your registrar to the dns provider
    • use ddclient to update the IP of a domain entry (e.g. server.example.com)
    • add as many CNAME as you want that point to that entry (so you can have stuff like Jellyfin.example.com www.example.com Nextcloud.example.com)

    That’s all… ddclient will update that single dns entry every time your server restarts (or the IP lease expires and you get a new IP)

    The only thing you need to pay here is the domain (you can get free domains but that is another story and tbh I would not recommend, there are cheap domains out of there)