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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Working on my (private) servers is a hypnotic activity for me. It can be interesting or I can hate it and still want to do it. It can also be relaxing. Last time when I was sick in bed I played around with wireguard VPN configs all day to get a routed VPN for my VPS. I'm going to fix it today because something doesn't work the way it should.

Also, I learn Japanese. 日本語が大好き!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Messing around with my server is so much fun! I'm always on the lookout for something new to self-host.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just hosted paperless-ngx some days before. Great thing so far. Also renewed my jellyfin server, it's kinda slow sadly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think, at last count, I had something like 50-60 docker containers running. I'm starting to hit the limit of what my 10-year-old hardware is capable of, so i've started saving for an upgrade. Lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Learning Greek is (very casually) one of my hobbies I wanted to try, because it has a different alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Δεν χάνεις κάτι να προσπαθήσεις :)

I'm also interested in learning Chinese for the same reason, I downloaded a good app for basics and have learned a bit but it's a long long way from anything actually useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Foreign Alphabets are also great for obscure math variables. I like to name things よ

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's true, it makes my everyday math look fancier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am also learning Japanese. I fine it hard to think of the sentence structure as different than English. In my mind I find myself daying the sentences the way Yoda from star wars does and it makes more sense.

Yoda I am-->Yoda desu

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm currently only doing (a lot of) kanji learning, with wanikani

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any good ressources you used for the wireguard VPS stuff? Still on my bucket list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I found this software to fit my purposes: wg-gen

You configure your wireguard stuff on your host and this is just a web ui that can show current peers and generate new ones.

That is useful for more complex configs. I only connect to specific servers and address spaces with the VPN, I also Support ipv6.

For that kind of configuration, I found it necessary to host a DNS server for the network, so that I can access the reverse proxy of my Homeserver.

If you're only looking to warp your device into a different network, that's more straight forward. I suggest to take a look at wg-easy if you want a web ui for that scenario.

Also, Caution: Some wireguard containers that use your hosts config love to delete them, so make backups. I'm looking at you, wireguard-ui.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the late reply. I just wanted to day Thanks for posting this. I'll have a look in the next couple of days and see what I can achieve.

Have a good weekend!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm having a good one, it's one of the Selfhosting weekends. Sadly I noticed that the server does not forward clients packages to other clients over the VPN. I've tried a static ipv6 route but gave up eventually.