Using podman-compose, I usually have a section like:

volumes:
    - ./local_folder:/container/folder

Specifically, I have to use either an absolute path or a relative path with “./” to prevent it from treating a directory as a volume name.

My practical answer: Nah, it’s probably not going to nuke your files.

My software engineer answer: Never trust us to not make a mistake. It doesn’t take much to accidentally nuke a directory.

Or worse… expelled

Agreed, for me containers are really nice for playing with new software without dirtying my host install.

I’m actually almost completely unfamiliar with Nginx, short of a few hours of tinkering. NginxProxyManager is a direct competitor to Caddy, with a graphical interface, SSL cert creation and auto-renew, etc. I’m not going to say to switch from Caddy, since there’s probably no major benefit, but it’s much nicer than trying to figure out Nginx reverse proxies by hand.

I think the problem is that normal consumers wouldn’t ever buy a tape drive, so the only options still being produced are enterprise grade. The tapes are still pretty cheap, but the drives are absurd.

I really want to use tape for backups, but holy expensive. Those tape drives are thousands of dollars.

I’m going to cast another vote for a reverse proxy, such as NginxProxyManager. It’s really easy to set everything up, and they’re usually very easy to run in Docker/Podman.

One thing to note: if you end up with a domain with mandatory HSTS, you’ll have to use DNS-based certificate generation rather than HTTP based, since unencrypted HTTP is blocked (chicken/egg problem to get HTTPS working). It’s not hard, but you have to be aware of that limitation.

I ended up scoring a free lifetime membership years ago, but is their stuff open source? I never fully trusted it, so I didn’t end up using it for anything

My jaw damn near hit the floor when I got the offer. A lot of it is wrapped up in stocks, but the base salary is 175k with a cash signing bonus of 160k spread across the first two years’ paychecks.

Despite that (and even when saving quite aggressively), I still can’t afford more than my tiny condo in my area. It’s silly.

65k->72k->80k->92k->106k->113k->118k->277k

See if you can pinpoint the year I got into a big tech job.

Agreed. I have a personal modem and a separate router with openwrt acting, at least in part, as a firewall. Then each host also has its own firewall for extra protection.

Maybe consider routing your traffic through an SSH tunnel?

In that case, maybe add a setting? For users without data limitations, and especially with the relatively rare occurrence of catbox links, a couple megabytes here and there isn’t a big deal. Otherwise, as others have said, a generic play button is perfectly acceptable too.

Knowing programmers, I think a major unintended side effect of such a paradigm would be HUGE monolithic source files.

Doesn’t the RPi still go through the ISP? You’d still have to find a way to bypass their hijacking attempts, just on a different device this time.

This seems like it’s geared toward higher power hardware that’s not generally available on a consumer-grade router.