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  • The VPS is required specially if you, like me, are behind CG-NAT with no way to escape from it. Using a VPS (or any other kind of server with a public IP). Using a VPS is the cheapest option…

    residential IPs can be blocked for ports like 80, 443, 22 and the email ports in general (25, etc), using a non-residential IP could give a better experience. Moreover, even if not behind CG-NAT, having a public static and not-changing IP is a good advantage.

    Everything is hosted locally! the VPS is only a tunnel between internet and the home server.








  • Legally speaking you lose the license to all the games because you don’t own the games only a license to use those games.

    And the game owners have only licensed the games to the gaming platform (steam, etc) with the license to re-license those to you. Ceasing to exist the middleman, also your end of the license is invalidated.

    You would need to negotiate a license to use each game again with somebody else or you are effectively pirating the game.

    This doesn’t matter if there are DRM or no DRM. This not a technical aspect. Pirating means using without being legally allowed to, circumventing DRM or not is just the difference between breaking into your home or finding a non locked door to enter without damaging the house. Its still stealing.

    Don’t get mad, I do not condone DRM and I don’t think piracy is stealing, it was just an example from a legal point of view

    IANAL, but had to study the field for work related stuff.








  • Interesting enough…

    tcpdump -i wg0 
    21:49:49.604220 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 1, length 64
    21:49:49.638242 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 1, length 64
    21:49:50.615200 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 2, length 64
    21:49:50.648361 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 2, length 64
    21:49:51.628391 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 3, length 64
    21:49:51.673502 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 3, length 64
    21:49:52.641711 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 4, length 64
    21:49:52.673321 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 4, length 64
    21:49:53.655076 IP 10.70.0.1 > dns.google: ICMP echo request, id 5337, seq 5, length 64
    21:49:53.695391 IP dns.google > 10.70.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 5337, seq 5, length 64
    

    while on the other console, as user 1070:

     ping 8.8.8.8
    PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
    

    just gets stuck there…

    This is baffling!

    (stopping the ping also stop the prints in the tcpdump)