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You don't need a static IP address, but you do need a public IP address. You can use dynamic DNS to avoid having to keep track of your IP address. FreeDNS will work fine for a basic setup.

Wireguard is one of the easiest VPN servers to use. If you're not using your ISP's router, it may even have Wireguard built in.

Ads used to be static text in the sidebar that the site owner manually put there. They didn't have any tracking and didn't slow down the loading time. Once they started adding images, I started using an ad blocker. I was stuck on dial-up until 2008 and a single, small image could add 10 or more seconds to the page loading time.

You can find used Thinkcenters pretty cheap with AMD CPUs. I recently got an M75s Gen2 with a Ryzen 3 4350G for around $100.

LTO tape is good for 30 years when properly stored. You should be transferring the data to a newer format much sooner than that anyways. LTO drives are only backwards compatible for 1 or 2 versions, so you probably won't be able to find a working drive that can read your tape 30 years later.

I've never had to defragment the ext4 drives in my server. Ext4 is fairly resistant to fragmentation.

Solar panels are already quite cheap. What we need is much cheaper grid forming inverters so we can stop destabilizing the grid with solar.

Here: https://files.catbox.moe/pg3cmp.csv

Here is the list of affected extensions.

Switch to IPv6 only and the port scans will go away. The address space is so big that port scanning is difficult, so the usual bots don't bother.

Yeah, but it can't run a decent ad blocker. That makes it useless to me.

Just ban it already. Nobody needs that brain rotting site.

Use your own modem and router so your ISP doesn't have access to it.