There’s free domains too. I can’t recommend any but I know .tk should be free.

http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en

.xci files are physical switch game images and .nsp files are updates or games from the eShop. Everything is online somewhere.

Yuzu, to my knowledge, is PC only.

To get the information you need to use it, you’ll either download it illegally or hack a switch (legally?) To get encryption keys and dump a copy of your game.

Not sure I replied to the PM correctly but I did invite you to IPT. Cheers!

I can give you an invite to IPTorrents PM me an email if you want it and I’ll send next time I’m on my laptop.

Honestly, I got IPT access from a coworker, and I keep an eye out for open registration on trackers I want. I don’t use them anymore, I just use sonarr/radarr with Usenet now. If that can’t find it, I use jackett, then go to YouTube or google if I still can’t find it.

At first, anything that was free. Then I found the *arrs, moved to Usenet and never looked back.

Being up to date is VERY important. There’s a bunch of sites out there that scan the entire internet endlessly and keep information about each IP up to date. For example go here and search your IP.

https://search.censys.io/

When a vulnerability is found, attackers will go to sites like these and look for anything to hack. If you don’t update more or less immediately, you’re at huge risk.

Other then that, everyone else is right. Being available to the public means you’re going to have bots scanning you and sending random trash. The only thing you can do is try and block it (fail2ban) or limit it (block certain countries) but at the end of the day its the software that gets the packets (jellyfin) that you need to trust to be secure and discard random junk.

I know it was awhile ago but did you ever find a good one? PM me if you don’t want to post it publicly.

I have an IPT invite if you need it too. Though, if you’re there for IPTV I think you can just pay your way in.

I found this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38760031

That’s all I know.

Just here to say that the *arrs and Plex use sqlite3 databases. If these are over the network then they’re going to run SUPER slow.

At least for me, when running it over NFS the arr logs were full of waiting for locked databaae and Plex started to show similar warnings in the logs after a few people were using it.

I wonder when they did that. I’ve never updated my kindle, it’s never even been on the internet so I’m stuck in 2021/2022.

Either way I have KOreader now and it’s amazing. Just reading that I can connect it to the internet for more features and reading how to do that while blocking amazon. I still might not connect it or I’ll put it on my IOT wifi that doesn’t have internet access.

This is the bit I read that sold me on it.

But if you do jailbreak a Kindle, you’ll be able to install third-party apps like KOReader, which bring support for eBooks in formats that aren’t natively supported by the stock Kindle software, such as EPUB and CBZ files

Neat, my kindle is in airplane mode 100% of the time too… I never knew you could jailbreak, reading about it now.

Edit: and I’m on 5.14.2 guess I’m going to jailbreak. Amazing, thank you!

Iptorrents themselves have one. I’ve never used an IPTV provider, nor do I care but ipt has one.

My guess is they’re reselling the same one or two actual sources that are out there.

I personally miss the hack/custom receivers out there where you’d just download the keys from forums and have your own, straight from the source.

Cracking means decompiling the files, debugging the code and finding the bits that check if you have a key/subscription and changing it in such a way that it passes. Not exactly something you can learn from scratch quickly.

I’ll try to remember to DM you when/if I get any answers

Thanks! No worries if not, It’s just a different setup then I’m use to. Safe travels! I think I got sick over the weekend too. hah.

I also have 500 MBit/s symmetrical internet. They tried to upsell me on 1.5GBit/s but my Firewall only supports “up to 700 MBit/s throughput” even though it has gigabit NICs so watch out for that also :) https://shop.netgate.com/products/1100-pfsense is the one I use. I’d love to upgrade but money has been tight for awhile.

but of course, don’t ever feel obligated to answer.

No problem! I’ll answer when I can, even if it’s a “I don’t know”

I am trying to work myself towards as complete control over my data as possible,

I started doing this in college. Deleted Facebook, started buying cheap Tiny Lenovo PCs to run everything on. It’s almost a chore now but I still enjoy it. I think the issue is I also do it all day at work so it kind of feels like more work after work, you know? I’m paying a company to host my email because I tried doing it myself and it was too much work.

I hope you get through your stuff in your personal life. This interaction has in any case been greatly appreciated by me.

All good, I was just giving context. Thanks though!!

My fibre box does TV, phone, and internet all in one. I guess you have one for each? I’m interested to find out if you’ll share.

I think asking them what each of them do and understand it is a good first step. Maybe you can get that down to 2 boxes. Good luck!

Nice! Glad its still working! Definitely triple check with something like https://canyouseeme.org/ when you open ports. I’m a Linux Sys Admin and happy to do my best to help of you have any more questions. At least I’ll try and get you on the right track.

I 100% agree with you on the rest. Canada isn’t doing anything and at this point I’m ready to give up. I’m not sure where to draw the line anymore and self hosting is a bit of a pain for me these days. Personal life is a bit rough and it’s just so easy to make a gmail account and have them host it.

I have two small boxes in a cabinet - one is receiving a white cable that comes from outside my home, and outputs an optical signal that goes into the other box. This other box also gets a coax cable from outside my home, and outputs an ethernet connection that is connected to what my ISP calls a WiFi router. This has additional LAN ports as well.

humm, I’ve never seen or heard of this. I’ve only ever been provided one box by my ISP. I have two guesses… Either you can replace your WiFi router with your own and everything will be okay or you’ll have to add a 3rd that is your own and Plug it into the WiFi router and ask them to put it in bridge mode. My guess is they can help you a lot better then me guessing.

torrent client is bound to the interface created by the VPN client.

perfect. Then you can close the open port on your router for sure. My Torrent client (rutorrent) shows what IP and port I’m using at the bottom, these are my VPN IP and the port I opened with the VPN provider.

The IP address is outside my network

I don’t like this. That’s super weird and I would not trust it. I’m sure it’s “fine” but I’d hard pass on that. Set up my own 100% for sure.

There’s a modem connected to the WAN port, and the router/hotspot is connected to the modem. But I guess that doesn’t change anything?

I don’t understand. Can I get a pic (MS Paint or real or something) or some brand names or something? I understand if you don’t want to show, I’m just not sure what you’re saying.

My ISP gave me a white box, I plug a fibre cable from the street Plus power from the outlet into this box. Then I have a cat6 cable from this box (port 1 as per their instructions) into the WAN port of my firewall. My Firewall has a Public IP on it’s WAN interface and I have 4 ports for LAN. The same firewall gives off wifi to the rest of my house.

I will definitely need to setup this myself then. Do you run this as cron jobs?

Yeah, here’s one of them for a VPS I rent: 30 * * * * root dnf clean all ; dnf -y update && needs-restarting -r || /usr/sbin/reboot

I actually run things in Kubernetes and use https://github.com/keel-hq/keel to keep my pods (containers) up to date.

I do use a VPN (with port forwarding supported, but I have not activated it, which I know could affect performance, but I have not noticed anything here). Is the port opening on my router unnecessary in this case?

The port opening on the router is unnecessary and could be a bad thing. If you’re using a VPN with port forwarding I’d close the one on your router right now. The “open” port is open via the VPN connection so they do all the opening for you, you just need to make sure your PC is on the VPN.

Go to this site with out your VPN on, it will tell you if you’re using your raw internet to download torrents: https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/

it sounds like you might be doing that, or at least have the ability for people to connect to you via your ISP (bad) and not over the VPN (good)

Thinking about the torrent thing, there’s no better way to do it. I’d personally open a static port IE 12345 and point that at the torrent client on the PC. I would not randomize it and open a massive range on your firewall just in case. Then just close the client when you’re done and know that packets for 12345 will still reach your PC, they’re just dropped there.

Not that I support it, but if you’re downloading more then just Linux ISOs and you’re in a country with pretty strict laws around this sort of thing, you should be using a VPN that supports opening ports. then you do not need anything open on your firewall, just to connect to the VPN when you’re ready to sail the high seas.

UPNP should be disabled on your firewall (unless you play xbox or whatever). This allows a device, like an xbox or PC, to request your firewall open a port. This is needed for some online games to work properly but is not very good for security.