I'm reading about this now. Thank you.
Do you put cloudflare between the VPS and Backblaze or is their website just referring to "CDN and compute partners" between the VPS and the end users? ... Or both?
I do believe it's x.com now /s
Basically this. I'd just buy a used disk, swap them out and install Linux. That or use a USB.
When it comes time to return it, put the old hard drive in it and return it. I can't think of a way for them to tell you did this aside from the lack of logs they keep from trying to track you.
This is all you need. It'll return your IP in a curl/wget/browser
location / {
add_header Content-Type text/html;
return 200 '$remote_addr';
}
So what should I use instead? Nothing?
I guess maybe docker does isolation so I could run all my apps in there.
Yeah, app cache had to be cleared. We good
I don't mind the old kernel, packages, etc. However, one of my biggest problems with debain so far is that SELinux isn't installed by default..... I've installed and enabled it but it doesn't seem to let me SSH in. I'm still troubleshooting but its annoying to have to fight with it.
I'd love to continue to use Fedora but I have no faith in RedHat. They don't give a shit about their community anymore, including Fedora, so I believe its just a matter of time before that's dead too.
I hate this so much. Its super cool but MAN what the hell. I don't think I'm going to ever turn off my VPN anymore. I'm in a super small town and that image is correct.
It's cached somewhere because I can't get it to update. Maybe time for a new account too. Hmmmm
This was my thought exactly. Work is a RHEL shop and I had settled on Fedora after distro hopping. Ubuntu was for the new guys getting into Linux.
My self hosted services were all CentOS and more recently Rocky/Alma. After the shenanigans RH pulled to make their source harder to obtain, I'm working through my personal ansible scripts to get up on Debain. I'll never go back to RHEL or the forks.
You buy one pound of underwear and you're on their list forever.
If you want something publicly accessible (like google, etc) you will have to open a port on your router and point it to your laptop.
If you want something privately accessible (like your router website) then you do not need to touch your router but both devices (laptop and phone) will need to be on the same private network.
What is not possible is to take your laptop to a hotel somewhere, leave it on while you take your phone out in the city and access your laptop via the public internet. You would need access to the hotel router to allow it. I believe this is what you're trying to do from your post above.
IF you want to do something like what I said. You'll need an overlay network. It's basically a virtual private network you can install on your devices. Personally I love tailscale(with headscale) but there are lots. Then you'll be able to connect to your laptop in a hotel from your phone while you're away.
I would start with a website that says hello world without SSL/HTTPS. Get this accessible from your phone on the same network, then decide what you want to do and take it one step at a time. SSL next? Public access? Tailscale access? The idea would be to do it all but one thing at a time.