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  • I bought a dehumidifier off amazon that was “rated” for 800 sq ft.

    Not only did it not live up to that promise, but it also served as the worlds shittiest ice maker. Ice formed on the radiator inside and stoped it from dehumidifying the air.

    Thats right, you too can have a ice maker that makes ice in the shape of a radiator while ineffectively dehumidifying your home!

    Best part was they reached out after I left a one star review and what they could do to change my rating.

    I said “Nothing. Make a better product”











  • Im pretty happy but due to ADHD im never really satisfied with what i have currently in a sense.

    I’m very grateful for my job, my current living situation and my partner but im always looking forward to new projects and stuff that i wanna do. I finish one thing and i really like that and then i move onto the next thing cause i feel like i have to. Just cant sit still for too long.

    How it happened is i just got lucky. I got a good family that helped me with a place to live, my buddy helped me get my current job in an IT adjacent position, and i met my gf on tinder when she was just about to leave the app for good.

    So yea, just kinda got lucky. I do work hard too and struggled alot with ADHD and other mental health issues before getting diagnosed so im glad things worked out eventually.






  • ATnT should be able to tell you for sure. I remember reading about another person facing a cgnat using ATnT on reddit while i still went there so it very well could be.

    And fairly easy setup yea. I did mine using a windows pc for testing as i was kinda in between places at the time and thats what i ended up using for jellyfin as well. Just lives on my media pc at the moment. The docs are pretty straight forward.

    I recommend that or zero tier which is even more dead simple. Both are good but cloudflare does care about how much bandwidth you’re using so just bear that in mind if you think you’ll use the server for anything else.

    Both are vpn tunnels so either should work just fine.

    https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections/connect-networks/

    https://www.zerotier.com/pricing/

    Self hosting can get pretty overwhelming but i find that using docs in addition to youtube videos helps a lot. I also recommend giving Linux a go when you feel up to it. It can be a very nice option if you’re working with older hardware.


  • I’m not super familiar with docker so im sorry im not much help there but i noticed that you mentioned a ATnT router. Are you using them as an Internet provider?

    If so, you might have a carrier grade nat which makes reverse proxy like this not possible even if you do get caddy server working. I had a similar situation with my jellyfin server.

    I had caddy server working but when i moved and started using a mobile internet provider, i had to use a vpn tunnel like cloudflare or zerotier to get around it.

    All this to say, id recommend finding that out so if that is the case you dont spend anymore time on caddy.

    Good luck either way.




  • I started off with pi hole when i started messing around with an old laptop for self hosting. My advice is setup what you think is useful.

    To access the server outside your home, tailscale is a great option. Fairly simple to setup especially if its just you accessing the server.

    Reverse proxy would be best if you intend to let others acess your servers services often or if you dont wanna mess with tunnels. I settled on cloudflare tunnels because i didn’t want another thing to turn on to acess my server outside my house.

    When I didn’t have a carrier grade nat to deal with, i used caddy server for automatically getting ssl certs from lets encrypt and reverse proxy all in one. I really liked that once i got it setup.