But why use one DNS service over another? Sorry if you’ve covered this already and it’s just not clicking yet or something.

Yeah, I’ve only got a handful of services I want to run. It’s possible that the bug bites me and I want to go deeper into this stuff, but for the here and now, I’m only eyeing 8-10 things I want to host, and they ought to work across a mini PC and a NAS.

Why do I need that? From my perspective, it seems like it would be more useful if I had far more services that I intended to run than what I’m actually planning for.

I plan on putting just about everything I can in Docker containers, but I don’t think what I’m doing requires VMs, unless you spotted something that’s eluding me.

I’m not happy with Bazzite for this purpose. Its previous purpose was to be a game console, but I’m reassured by the recommendations for Debian.

Then use a GUI. The extra memory used is trivial and your system will be way over-powered for a reverse proxy to a home network anyway.

It will be more than just a reverse proxy, but I suspect it will still be more than powerful enough for the extras. Thanks.

Are you going to update frequently?

Yes, just so long as I’m the boss. I don’t want any downtime that I’m not in control of.

Your DNS servers would be the ones where you register your domain.

The tutorials I’d been looking at were showing them overriding the DNS servers at the domain registrar with servers from Cloudflare or elsewhere. Is that just because there may not be an automated way to update the IP dynamically with the domain registrar, but there is for Cloudflare?

The type of change you’re talking about would have immediate negative effects on their customers, and they’d never recover from that. Even with more than half of their game sales coming from digital now, they’d immediately alienate the 20-30% that still buy physical, and they need every customer they can get right now as they bleed market share to PC.

I think the tunnel method you’re suggesting is different than what I’m after, and a lot of the “complexity” in learning this stuff is coming from all the different methods we have available to achieve similar results. I ought to be able to just expose 443 once I’m fully up and running, and it will route to the various services through the reverse proxy and subdomains. My “zero trust” separation for security ought to be my VLANs. So if I’m not going exactly that route, where would my DNS servers come from, and why would I need something other than what’s there by default?

I know the CLI is effective. My daily driver has been Kubuntu since 2017, and I dabbled with Ubuntu for a decade before that. But I’m so much slower on the command line, because I have to think so much harder about each command, and the outputs are often unintuitive to read and parse out what I’m looking for.

This would be how a business commits suicide, not to mention upset their retail partners that sell their hardware.

I don’t think there’s a mechanism for them to tell if you’ve got a license for a disc without putting CD keys in the box. OP only needs them to honor ownership long enough to resell the copy.

None of us can predict the future, so we don’t know which games will end up on GOG one day, but your plan seems solid enough based on what we know now and what you value.

Thanks. My NAS comes with a Docker GUI that I’m fairly comfortable using at this point, but I figured I’d end up using Portainer on the mini PC. So CertBot is the software that will get me a self-signed certificate until I’m ready to expose it to the web? And I can install that via Docker container? Desktop Debian is totally cool for the mini PC OS?

Two plugins for Calibre and a free Adobe account.

By the way, the Steam version also doesn’t have split-screen for some reason. That’s how far we’ve regressed.

UPDATE: They clarified stating the previous requirements were in error, and both players on PS5 will need user accounts on the console but not PS+ unless you’re also playing online co-op. I mean, this is still stupid and needlessly complicated, but it’s better than what was originally stated.

You just posted 5 links in the span of 20 minutes, and the ones you posted on this community were stories that were already posted here. Are you a bot?

I did a search for his name alongside the sexual harassment accusations, and I don’t see his name listed anywhere. It’s suspicious that so many around him are accused, but I don’t see Claude named anywhere.

I guess we’ll piggyback on this thread for demo recommendations.

The only demo I was wowed by so far was Project TurboBlast, which is the racing game I’ve wanted since F-Zero GX, with some CTR drifting mixed in. The biggest problem for me is the lack of split-screen multiplayer, but at least it lists the LAN tag. Something like Aero GPX in early access has everything but the online multiplayer, and this one has everything but the split-screen. Still, I’d recommend it.

Kobo is where I ended up buying from, because I can break the DRM there, but it wasn’t trivial to figure out. For comics, I use Global Comix; they seem to be universally DRM-free, at least what I’ve seen so far. Failing that, Google at least tells you on a per item basis what the DRM situation is for books and comics.

I’ve been rapidly barrelling toward a DRM-free-only self-hosted future, and part of that is DRM-free books. In an attempt to get out of Amazon’s clutches, I looked for where I can buy DRM-free books, like Project Hail Mary. The answer I came up with was: nowhere. Everyone is following the same playbook. Why would I buy from your store if you’re doing exactly what Amazon is doing? I’m already shopping on Amazon, and I want something better.

(The answer is that I can break the DRM on other stores, but I can’t on Amazon. When it’s this difficult to get DRM-free books, I wouldn’t blame people for resorting to piracy.)

Why on earth would I buy from Epic if I have any other option? What are you doing better?

I was a huge fan of the previous games. My friends were huge fans of the previous games. We all loved Infinite. Fallout 4 is another great example of that game being way better, and way better received, than the tone that you tend to see on forums. Perhaps because those people were so burned that they can’t help but talk continually about how upset they were with it? I see this all the time in fighting game circles around Guilty Gear Strive. That series never broke 1M copies sold of a game before Strive, and Strive has sold like 4M+ by now. Not only that, but tournament entrants are consistently healthy at every major. If competitors weren’t happy with it, they’d stop playing, and we know that from plenty of other fighting game scenes. Even if everyone who played a prior Guilty Gear also hated Strive (which isn’t the case), it should be extremely rare to come across those legacy players’ complaints, but even 5 years into Strive’s success, those voices are quite loud in forums.

It’s the #72 highest rated game of all time on Metacritic with a 94/100. I don’t think BioShock Infinite really fits this thread.