They do.

Not a problem for me, I pay for VPN anyway.

They die anyway, they’re surviving on momentum, not on being the genuinely great service that’s actually better than pirating.

I must get into this Usenet thing one day. Though it all seems complicated.

If I haven’t cancelled Netflix already, I would right now. I cancelled Spotify for the same reason just last week (though in their case it might have been a mistake, but I don’t really expect such mistakes after increasing the cost twice a year).

Given that’s like half the reason people actually buy PCs in the first place? Probably not.

Sounds weird. I started pirating again because the companies are fucking greedy. So nothing they do will make me pay again, until they stop being so greedy - if they all consolidate into one streaming service for a price of like $10, I’ll probably stop pirating again, because at that point it’s easier to not pirate.

I hear Somalia also isn’t the best place to sail by.

Oh yeah, I feel sorry for all the Immich users who know it just won’t happen to them. Losing your movie collection sucks but you can download again, but personal photos deserve much better treatment. Though it sucks paying extra for cloud backup of your photos.

I mean, forever might be too strong of a word.

Well, that’s why you’ll have to try out. Or ask someone to at least try whether it opens, the apps mostly either fail on start because they require a Google certified Android, or they don’t fail at all.

Though it looks like that could change eventually with a Linux phone.

SailfishOS is mostly daily drivable, depends on which Android apps you need (there’s a compatibility layer to run Android apps on it), with bank apps it’s often a problem.

That really depends on the implementation. In the case of gluetun, yes, no data can leak.

In Linux, by interface binding, no data can leak as well. No idea how Windows network stack is implemented.

Well, in some countries carriers don’t have a say in that.

Back to my trusty Xperia with SailfishOS, I guess.

Oh, fuck off Nothing, you were to be my next phone! Now I need to find a different European brand which does high-end smartphones. Which means only HMD remains unless something changed in the last few months.

1. Install Caddy on the host
2. Configure each service to forward to unique ports (say, 5001 for one service, 5002 for a different service)
3. Inside Caddyfile add a block like this for each service:

service1.example.com {
  reverse_proxy localhost:5001
}

It can be done in Apache as well, but Caddy is simply better and simpler.

As for images, take a look at Immich if that’s something you might want.

Monthly unless I learn about a vulnerability that would require it sooner.

What’s gluetun? Seems like it’s a VPN client? What’s special about it?

Gluetun can connect to multitude of VPNs, but most importantly it can be used to force other containers to use only the gluetun network, meaning if you disconnect from VPN for whatever reason, the other containers don’t suddenly send data over non-VPN network.

So if you’re torrenting and use gluetun to provide internet to the qBittorrent container, you won’t accidentally reveal your real IP if your provider’s server goes down for a few seconds.

How do you use it in your setup?

Configure it to connect to my VPN, create a file with the public port it uses, configure qBittorrent to only use gluetun for network and some script which reads the file with public port and changes it in qBittorrent.

Do I need to know about this if I use Tailscale on the host for connecting to my VPN?

Depends. I like having everything container related in the containers. Sometimes I need to do something without VPN, this would limit me. Also, if you don’t configure disconnect on VPN connection loss in a different way (interface binding), you risk revealing your IP.

Would gluetun allow me to use an additional VPN provider for certain apps without messing with the host Tailscale?

Yes. Though you would be double VPNed: App -> gluetun -> host VPN -> target server. That would probably add some latency.

I’d give Syncthing a try. Though you should make some kind of tunnel so that they can communicate without relays, the speed there really depends on what traffic the relay is going through.