Ahh, gotcha, thanks. Not the leaches I had in mind, but funny that they said that regardless.

Wait, what? I missed that, do you have a link?

I’m doing my part!

Steve deez nuts

at most, an 8th-grader

Phew, looks like my 6th grade education is finally paying off!

This looks very cool, thanks for sharing!

I reread the stand yearly. It’s a longer book but it definitely hooks you and draws you into the world exactly like how op is asking.

Imagine how wonderful it would be if your butthole could hoover up the shart that you accidentally squeezed out?

require a decade of fuck ups to reach its potential.

That’s quicker than people, heck I’m going on my 3rd decade and still not at my potential. Or so I like to tell myself.

You can also use something like handbrake to convert everything to 264 instead of redownloading everything. You can also set it up to convert after items are downloaded.

wire guard vpn port

This is the only thing forwarded. As for devices the worst offender would be my Roku TV but I’m not sure how much of a security threat that actually would be. More of a privacy threat, hence running pihole.

My setup is pretty basic, only thing I have is a media server accessed locally, and a pi running pihole and pivpn that has a port forwarded on my router for remote access. The pi has password login disabled, and the port forward is set to the static IP set for the pi with my router. The router has the firewall set, but nothing on any other machine. Do I need more?

It seems that the consensus from all the comments is that you do in fact need a firewall. So my question is how does that look exactly? A hardware firewall device directly between modem and router? I using the software firewall on the router enough? Or, additionally having software firewall installed on all capable devices on the network? A combination of the above?

This is exactly what I am looking for, thanks!

I know it’s not exactly what you asked but “To sleep in a sea of stars” by Christopher Paolini has humans at almost comparable with the aliens they interact with. Humans are slightly outclassed by the aliens in ship speed but the rest of the technology seems roughly comparable, with humans having better missile tech. It feels more like humans will lose a war of attrition if something major isn’t done, not being completely outclassed.

I just enjoyed the book so much I’m recommending it regardless of the tech differences not quite aligning to the question.

We solved the mystery!

I am shocked! Shocked!

No, wait, the other one, not surprised at all.

Welcome!

Thanks Satan!

I’ll have to read it than, I’ve only read a Brave New World.