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I just started self hosting. I have been really enjoying it so far but I'm nervous that the excitement will wear off soon unless something stressful or even catastrophic happens. Any advice?

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[โ€“] GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your interest in joining the botnet!

I'd recommend using "password" as your password and "root" for the username. Attackers have a lot of stuff going on! Don't make their job all complicated, make it easy to remember.

Older operating systems like a really old Linux distro or Windows XP are the best, since their performance requirements are a lot lower, giving better overhead for the crypto miners that will be installed. Modern OSs waste resources on security features and such.

[โ€“] crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago

this is very helpful thank you!