As you’ve described it, and from what I have read, its very similar to how tailscale negotiates its connections.

Does seem to be unique to Plex though.

I get how that could work, but what services actually do that? Homeassistant can, but that needs to be setup explicitly for it to work.

How does that work? Do they do something like what tailscale does to negotiate the connection? Can you point me to any doco for how that works?

I dont know that that is true. With cloudflare tunnels, their server.x.y.z will resolve to a cloudlfare IP address, which then tunnels it to their server? The traffic has to hit the cloudflare server, it can’t short circuit that connection? Am I missing something?

I would assume yes, it goes out to cloudflare and back in. You want to setup an internal DNS server on your network, and resolve your servers address to its local one. That way when your outside your network, you use the tunnel, and inside it goes direct.

1. You can’t receive those emails anymore.

2. Someone else can.

None that im aware of. There are webscrapers, and I guess you could just webscrape and dump the results into a postgres db and use it to index. But I’m guessing you’ll eventually want something more tuned/custom? But even if it existed, there is the discovery problem. How do you find the sites to scrape? Bing and google both let site operators submit urls, but that isn’t gonna scale to self-hosting.

Self hosting search engines is very hard. The scraping, indexing and storage requirements are immense. You could definitely self-host a front end (with your QoL improvements), but the back end search engines (Bing/Google/etc) will be able to track you all the same.

Odd that the disk didn’t show up in the list there. If there are other options near CMS maybe have a play with them?

Another option to checkout is to disable secure boot?

Switch from bios to uefi boot mode (or vice versa)?

Sometimes called legacy bios or something? From a quick google, might be called CSM

And self hosting option: https://github.com/storopoli/dead-man-switch

https://www.deadmansswitch.net/ < this looks like it fits the bill

Precision movement is definitely solved, but rapid precision movement required for fast printing isnt easy, and requires tuning.

The legal requirements likely only apply to commercially sold and operated printers. Patents really only matter once you are making significant money, HP et al. aren’t going to give a shit about diy efforts. Not a lawyer though.

The real issue is that printers are already dirt cheap (and despite some complaining here and there, work really well). Its hard to convince people to invest hundred to thousands of dollars to diy build a printer when you can buy one from an office supply chain for $50 (its wasteful, because it’ll only last a year, but it makes financial sense). Even diy 3d printing is basically dieing out with people preferring to buy an off-the-shelf system.

I have no issue with tinkering, my issue is more when tinkering gets turned around into advice.

I think I would be happier if these communities/subreddits were a bit more explicit about “We are amateurs, for actual advice, go to X, Y, Z”.

Yes, some people absolutely take things way too far, and often unproductively.

Like the person who was trying to disable websockets. Or the people who will shun signal, but jump directly on the flavour of the month signal clone, which might be completely backdoored.

If you dont know what you are doing, randomly turning things on and off at best does nothing, at worst makes you even more signaturable/trackable.

Its good to educate yourself on various protections, but unfortunately, it requires a lot of careful research and understanding.

If they can be hidden, like in Windows, I dont really mind if every app has one. I’ll hide the ones I dont care about.

The app dock isnt visible by default, so thats a partitial solution, but I’d prefer to be able to access it directly without opening a menu or overview first.

Steam provides a quick launch menu, thats a good enough reason for me.

Technical issues are worth resolving, but I want the UI to remain the same as the windows one. Its a pattern that works just fine.

Does seem worse IMO. There is nothing wrong with the windows tray, should just copy that and call it done.

Actually, (and I wasn’t aware of this until you mentioned it, so thank you), it does support serverless connections:

https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk/wiki/FAQ#i-only-use-rustdesk-for-a-few-devices-on-my-local-network-with-no-internet-connectivity-can-i-still-use-rustdesk-with-direct-ip-access

So I think between cloud server, self hosted server and direct IP, OP should be covered.

RustDesk (rustdesk.com) is open source, and similar to TeamViewer, and has paid plans, including a paid self hosted option.