Gregory's Server@vkc While I appreciate this idea, we have T-Mobile 5G home internet, which essentially disallows any kind of home hosting at all. That could be another vector for discouraging the behavior.
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 @tylerknowsnothing You can host at home inside the network if you'd like - you don't have to expose everything to the outside world. @vkc Well, there’s that. I do have a Mac mini running Plex and a NAS for backups and file share. I just can’t get Plex outside and my daughter can’t host a Minecraft instance as there’s a double NAT and no port forwarding on the T-mo box.  @tylerknowsnothing @vkc I have no idea if they'd get pissy about it, but what we do (we don't control our own internet and have no idea who our ISP is) is we have a VPS that we use as a bounce point. Our stuff is still hosted on the desktop I'm typing this on, but incoming connections from outside can get relayed through the VPS. It costs a bit of money though. (I need to write a blog post on how to set this up.) @vkc Well, that’s the rub. With T-Mobile 5G Home Internet, there are no standard router features of any kind. It’s essentially a hotspot with a couple RJ-45 jacks on the back and in-built wifi which you can’t turn off. No firewall or port forwarding of anything like on our Linksys router. And you can’t turn off DNS, either, so double NAT is a “feature”? It is by far, however, the cheapest, reasonably fast internet in SoCal at $50 a month. I’ll likely have to tunnel out somehow. grrr |
@tylerknowsnothing@mastodon.social @vkc@linuxmom.net Not really, actually. Get a Mesh VPN on there and it will work just fine.