Maybe something worth a shot is a direct Wireguard server/client connection. While I don’t know how it works with double NAT (wireguard client with double nat) making your home server act as a direct tunnel would solve all your issues.
IIR, tailscale uses wireguard under the hood and you’re already hosting things on your home server, so maybe this could be worth a try :) !
EU is making a new law which makes your IP the same as (something similar to) your social security number.
If that’s true, then even VPNs won’t help. Not sure how they will implement such a thing, but it’s obviously to protect the children !
There’s also the I2P network, which is similar to TOR but with torrenting in mind and other nice tools and utilities ! However, it’s slower, has less traffic/seeder and don’t even bother to try and find some older movies/music or hidden gems.
It’s getting better and some applications, like qbittorrent, are adding the i2p network. In the near future, when they have protected the children, I2P will be the place to be for a free and open Internet. However, you will probably be tagged as criminal…
You’re right ! And because OP want to archive Reddit pages I propose an alternative to reduce that bloated site to a minimum :).
From my tests, it can go from 20MB to 700Bytes. IMO still big for a chat conversation but the readability from the alternative front-end is a + !
For reddit, SingleFile HTML pages can be 20MB per file ! Which is huge for a simple discussion…
To reduce that bloated but still relevant site, redirect to any still working alternative like https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib or old reddit and decrease your file to less than 1MB/file.
Back in the day, that’s what I did ALOT on Windows. Specially because of piracy and my younger me having no idea what he was doing XD !
Still happens on Linux with EndeavourOS but not for the same reasons ! There are millions times more ways to break stuff on Linux but I always learn Something new during the process.
Story time:
Learned the other day that some config files are loaded in a specific order and depending what display manager is installed. That was kinda eye opening to understand cause my system didn’t load .profile when .bash_profile was present and I didn’t understood why ! Thanks Archwiki !
I was in the same boat… I just wanted a simple god damn self-hosted cloudStorage without any nitty gritty or all the bloat that comes with most local/self-hosted cloud solution…
Syncthing is good, but not really a cloud storage solution (I love syncthing and I use It to sync all my backups !!).
Give SFTPGo a try :) It also has a WebDAV functionality if you wan’t to use it that way ! It just plain file storage with security features. However, not sure there are any application available, I mostly used it as web application :).
No idea if there’s any working fork or any solution directly related to Spotify.
However, keep in mind that Spowlo downloads from YouTube music and while I was also an advocate of MeTube (yt-dlp frontend), I recently found out that even though you ask for the best quality It downloads some sketchy mp3 64/128kbps upscaled shit. Maybe those having a premium account it’s different, dunno…
So I suggest you give Soulseek a try, specially Nicotine+. There you find high quality mp3’s (320kbps range) and a lot of FLAC quality if that’s something you’re into !
If you still can’t find what you’re looking for, give rutracker.org a try :)
Else, either self-host MeTube or play arround with yt-dlp.