Oh, Im sorry. If I’m honest I completely forgot.

No worries, and thanks a lot!

If you guys can recommend a fair and open pastebin alternative for me I will upload it there as well and edit this with the link

I like OpenGist, the folks over at programming.dev run an instance: https://blocks.programming.dev/

It’s time for ReactOS then. Maybe FreeDOS? Or the most divine OS of all, TempleOS.

Are we ever getting that script before the heat death of the universe? ^^

What about GNU Hurd ^^

Thanks a lot for that incredibly useful link!

Something tells me that this is soon gonna disappear like a Boeing whistleblower. To everybody reading this: Make sure to archive that guide, preferably locally on your device!

Android has an extensive application sandboxing mechanism

I’m sorry, I have misunderstood your post then. I didn’t realize you want to run Windows on the server, I thought you were just saying that you have no prior experience with Linux because you use Windows on the desktop.

As someone with some experience in both Linux and Windows system administration I can tell you, Windows on the server sucks.
I’d even go as far to say that Linux on servers is more noob-friendly because there are more guides, tutorials, other resources, etc. available, and people on StackExchange, in forums, chat rooms or in Lemmy communities are really helpful. The hobbyist Windows server community is much smaller and has essentially no presence here on Lemmy.

Most open source software, especially piracy-related software is just assumed to be run on Linux, so there are almost never sufficient instructions for how to do something on Windows. The CLI (which you sometimes have to use for these kinds of things) is vastly different on Windows and Unix-like operating systems like Linux, macOS or BSD.

I actually used this a few years ago (never noticed the ads or popups because I always use an adequate ad-blocker with lists that also filter out stupid banners and other annoyances), but I immediately stopped using it after I learned about the parent company. It’s not like they made much profit from me anyways, but still, they see which articles you’re visiting, and I wouldn’t trust them with this information.

The main reason I used it was the design anyway, ever since Wikipedia slightly updated their standard theme to make it look more modern. I hope they start using the Citizen skin for MediaWiki, which would finally make it look like an actual modern website. Other wikis like The Apple Wiki also use it, and it’s beautiful in my opinion.

I now use Wikiless for privacy reasons, this page has some reasons why it’s a good idea to use it: https://github.com/Metastem/Wikiless/wiki/FAQ
LibRedirect automatically redirects all Wikipedia links in my browser to Wikiless

Hell no, we don’t need corporate enshittification for an open knowledge platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiwand#Business_model

This guide made by @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com is great: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

Ah I see, thanks for the clarification

This was posted here as well a few days ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/38715697

Yeah, Transmission is pretty nice, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s also pretty popular among macOS users, because it looks and feels like a native app.

Has anyone even used uTorrent in the last decade?

Edit: Apparently, unfortunately, yes

If you don’t want to spend too much time with moderation, you will have to manually approve registrations, simply to avoid spam. Sure, that increases the workload slightly, as you’re gonna have to go through applications let’s say once a week, but you don’t have to monitor the instance 24/7. I would still recommend checking reports once in a while, just to be on the safe side. But definitely make sure to deploy @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com’s fedi-safety to prevent CSAM from being uploaded on your instance.

Where should I host at?

Recently I became a huge fan of just renting a small dedicated server with a seedbox provider. Because they are specialized in providing hosting for pirates, they are usually located in jurisdictions that don’t give a fuck about the American DMCA. Check out seedhost.eu, they aren’t as expensive, or Appbox.

Will I need a VPN on the server too? If I’m torrenting, do I need to be careful which hosts I choose so I don’t get copyright pinged?

Not if you use a seedbox or a dedicated server hosted by a seedbox provider.

Is there a good guide for securing and hardening my server?

Just follow some basic Linux server hardening advice, e.g. disable SSH root login, disable password login and use SSH keys, don’t open unnecessary ports in your firewall, etc. If you’re feeling fancy, you can set up an SSH tarpit on default port 22 and use a different port for actually logging in. This massively wastes the time of script kiddies who run automated SSH scanners.

I’d like my partner and i to have easy access from home or on our mobiles

For that I recommend Tailscale or Netbird.

Any other guides you’d recommend?

@db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com posted an amazing guide some time ago: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/5911320

Any must have software or sites to know about?

I like bitmagnet, it lets you run your own torrent indexer. It’s basically your own, self-hosted alternative to SolidTorrents, BitSearch or BTDigg.
Also check out Flood if you want a nicer web frontend for rTorrent, qBittorrent, Transmission or Deluge.
Transdroid is pretty nice if you want to control the torrent client on your server from your Android phone.
There’s also qBitController if you use qBittorrent, or qBitControl if you’re on iOS, but you have to sideload it using AltStore.

Also make sure to join !qbittorrent@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !seedboxes@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !PrivateTrackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

!thunder_app@lemmy.world is great.

According to multiple users on the GrapheneOS forum it works just fine https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/7950-does-grapheneos-work-with-google-fi/2

Don’t recommend Voyager as a desktop client to new users. It just looks like a stretched mobile app, and the UX on desktop is piss poor. Just go with the default Lemmy UI, or Photon.

There’s a fork called Swiftgram, they might have left out the content restrictions in their App Store build. If not, you can try building the .ipa from source and sideloading it using AltStore.