@otter@lemmy.ca @hal@piefed.nz thanks for the encouragement to try Anubis.

The instance is now running using the Ansible playbook, with Anubis enabled. I changed the server back to non-private (which didn't help, anyway).

I've been interested in switching to running Lemmy via the Ansible playbook for a long time, but now that I've done it I miss "my way"! I'll either have to go back to "my way" or fork the playbook and learn how to make ansible do things how I like it.

Mostly, I need to figure out how to have everything go through Nginx Proxy Manager instead of the built in nginx container. I like having everything on an nginx docker network so they can use hostnames to find each other instead of IP addresses.

I'd have to sit down and figure that all out. It'd be a good skill to have these days.

I've heard mostly good things about Anubis, but I've also heard it can be hard to get it right. I've never looked into it so I'm not sure what people are referring to... maybe the balance between blocking lots of bots but still letting humans through?

This Lemmy instance is mostly sticking around for posterity, so hopefully Private Instance cuts down on the B.S. so I don't have to think about it any further!

Thanks for the reminder!

I disagree that it can't be LG anymore since it's still a basic TV so long as you don't connect it to the internet. Use the TV as a TV and use an Nvidia Shield, Chromecast, etc to do your internet stuff.

Vanilla nginx is still too far over my head, but Nginx Proxy Manager makes easy work of it.

A lot of people like Caddy but I've never tried it. The config files are much simpler and it auto-renews certificates (but so does Nginx Proxy Manager).

Lots of allergens are popping where I live. Grass and ragweed are ramping up to max output.

Top to bottom.

A while ago I decided that BTH only works well for 1 device (using wireguard at least) at a time.

I messed around and made different profiles (not sure of the actual name) for each device and that solved my problems.

Worth a shot.

I thought it was going to take a turn similar to how Cricket dated a dog that one time, but nope that guy was just raw doggin' it all the time.

That's pretty neat. I was expecting something basic like "pay it off every month and there's no interest", but this was much more interesting.

It's a method that web pages use to make sure you didn't make a typo in the number.

Are you familiar with Mikrotik? If you're located in the USA, you can browse Streakwave, Roc-Noc, Baltic Networks and others to see about pricing.

I only did a little research and this one seems to fit your needs (8 PoE/PoE+ ports, low power consumption) https://mikrotik.com/product/css610_8p_2s_in

One downside to their more inexpensive switches is they run SwitchOS instead of RouterOS as their software. You can still accomplish tons of stuff, but some people have concerns that RouterOS has sort of been left to die without many updates in the works.

You can also use their routers as switches. I do that with the PoE version of the RB5009 https://mikrotik.com/product/rb5009upr_s_in. It's more expensive than the switch I mentioned, but I like it for the form factor and that it runs RouterOS.

You seem to be tech savy enough so you can figure out how to configure it as a switch. Basically you just add all of the ports to Bridge.