The remaster of myst 1 is good, the remaster of riven is good.
Must 3-5 felt... Thin. Like, the game was about it being 3d and the tech... Not the puzzles.

I feel a true successor to the myst 1 & 2 games is Quern: Undying Thoughts.
Felt like the original premise, but in a modern game engine.

Another game that gave me the same hook as Myst is Blue Prince. A rogue lite puzzle game that is amazing.

In that case, maybe look into proxmox and VMs.
Then run docker inside a VM. Have multiple VMs of docker for different environments (eg a VM for containers that should only use a VPN, another for media server stuff, another for experimenting... Whatever)

Learning proxmox (or another hypervisor) is well worthwhile, because the base installer sets things up to just work for virtualization. And VMs are great for learning to run services.
Then you can spin up VMs for isolating environments, and have the benefit of oversight and management tools as well as snapshots. Snapshots means you can take a snapshot, tinker and break things, then roll back to a known good snapshot and try again.

I use proxmox on any bare metal before I start setting up VMs for services. Even if it's just a single VM with the majority of resources allocated to it.

Is proxmox overkill for running a server for some docker containers? Yes.
Does it make things easier? IMO, yes. At least operationally safer/easier.

Imo, only services that require a VPN exit node should use a VPN exit node.

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Is a well known VPN container that people use, and works with ProtonVPN.

I don't know anything about how to do this, but a cursory search for "gluetun qbitorrent docker" suggests that gluetun gets network: "host". Any container that has to use a VPN exit node gets network_mode: "service:gluetun". A depends_on: {gluetun details} style option will ensure that any service that should use a VPN exit node will not run unless gluetun is running.

Then it's getting the data out of the qbittorent container into whatever you are using as a media server.

Ah, gotcha.

So... You generally have to pay a VPN company to get access to their VPN exit nodes, and "hide" in among all the other traffic.
There is nothing you can self-host to do that.

ProtonVPN used to be a popular recommendation, however they are slipping out of favour due to behaviour over the last couple of years.
If you are looking for a VPN for anonymity, be careful of "review" articles posted on blogs owned by dodgy VPN providers.
I'm not sure who the "go to" VPN provider is these days.

If you rent a VPS (virtual private server) in order to run your own VPN exit node, and the VPS provider gets a letter regarding illegal activity, then your VPS will be deleted.
I don't know of a VPS provider that will protect customers privacy WRT legal requests (maybe there are, but they will be exceptionally expensive).

So everyone pays a VPN provider that doesn't keep logs in order to hide amongst the herd.

In order to make sure that your file downloading system uses a VPN instead of the default gateway for internet access is a huge field.
So you need to describe exactly the software you want to use the VPN exit node, and how it's installed.
Because the solution could be host firewall, docker networking, isolated networks.... Pretty sure there are many others.

You can't hide your public IP. It's public.

I presume your servers sit on your home network, and it's a basic flat network. And you have a basic home router. And you forward a port on your router to your server that's running wireguard.
Sound about right?

You already use a VPN to access your homelab/home-servers.
So the only ports you are forwarding (presumably) relate to wireguard. So the only accessable ports are secured sensibly (by wireguard, cause thats what it is).

So you are already doing everything right.

If you want a fancier router/firewall, then OpnSense or OpenWRT are good options.
But I wouldn't run everything through your server. Let your server serve. And use a router to do network things.
If you really want to hyperconverge onto a single server like that, then I'd do it inside different VMs (probably running on a proxmox host). Have a VM running OpnSense that only does network and routing. Then VMs for other services.
You're directly coupling your home internet access to the proxmox host and the VM, tho.
Which is why I prefer using a more embedded/dedicated router appliance (I'm a huge fan of mikrotik stuff, but my home network is TP-Link Omada. Tho I think I'll move to Unifi)

It's even funnier cause it's not Australia

Yeh, 34 got me as well.
Fuck x by dx with bounds or range or whatever. Integrate this! (And I want you to imagine I'm grabbing my balls)

TOR, I2P, tunnel via SSH, any number of techs that tunnel VPN via HTTPS.
Wireguard recently released an update to enable VPNs via QUIC. QUIC is the transport layer of HTTP/3. So VPNs would be indistinguishable from HTTPS traffic, unless the filters had the root certificates to decode/intercept the traffic.

It's the root certificates that are the weakest spot, IMO.
When governments start attacking the globally trusted root certificates, we will be back to the 20th century of word-of-mouth (IE, sharing) root CAs that can actually be trusted, and will need to keep an eye on canary posts or whatever to know when those root CAs have been compromised.

Not VPNs via QUIC. IE VPNs that looks exactly like HTTPS traffic

Huh.
So the UK has previously failed to block encryption. And somehow the Online Safety Act got pushed through to PrOtEcT ThE ChiLDrEn - requiring age verification for all adult content.
Resulting in a study by ministers on how VPNs stop OfCom from enforcing the OSA.
Which is a thing VPNs do. So it's very likely VPNs get de-anonymised, regulated or outlawed.

Seems like there is a war on the actual internet, owning device and services.

Why don't they licence IP addresses? Require a change to IPv6 and just assign everyone a IPv6/48 block at birth. That means there are 281 billion birth assignments available, with everyone getting septillions of personal addresses - actually more than you could provision in a vibe coded k8s manifest.

If there are 200 million births per year (it's apparently 135 million atm), thats well over 1000 years before we run out of IPv6/48 blocks (1400 years, to be slightly more accurate. At a constant 135m births per year, thats 2000 years. But conservatively, 1000 years before we reuse IPv6/48 blocks... If we don't reduce the block size to represent year born or something)

Fuck.
The good internet is gone. The convenient internet is fading fast.

I feel like there could be a NonCredibleCommerce community for things like this

"God will protect us. He has sent judgement on those unworthy" also contributes. Not directly eugenics, but damn fucking close