Just start with what is available to you. But first sort your aims.

Do you wanna learn or do you want to simply have services available?

Yes, if that is true (and I am not that suprised about it) it is nearly impossible to block them this way.

Isn’t fail2ban a possibility too? I created a filter for chatgpt and some others, and it feels like its working. My radicale server is my only free acessable service but it comes with a small webgui and so the bots showed up. I have no clue if the bot gets a fraction of your site each time it shows up, but seemingly the ban happens within 300ms when I remember correct. So it wouldn’t be that much of information…

When setting the retry to 1 it will ban at the first sight.

Well my first reply is: setting up yor own router is like to learn driving with a touring car. You just need to know a lot to set up/handle everything properly. Its just not easy and in m opinion the most wrong point to start.

DNS-wise I would like to recommend something like pihole. To me it was my first thing I installed and used until this day and also the handling of DNS is quite easy. Maybe you should consider lerning other things before setting up your own router.

Another possibility is, microsoft drops access to kernel level. This would solve all these problems at once. No more cheats on kernel level, no more anticheat on kernel level are needed.

Unfortunately I think Microsoft will avoid doing so, because it would remove one of the last barriers to switch to linux.

When you are talking about “popular” games, you mean service games that are often some kind of multiplayer games. Each of them binds a lot of players and is big and popular, indeed. But these are only a few compared to the amount of games that have been released in the past decade. Let alone released games from 2024 that are listed on imdb.com are 1551 Imdb.com

So yes, I can imagine 90% is right since the most games are no service games and do not require some shitty kernel level anti cheat.

For bugs: I have no idea since I only use linux for non-gaming tasks.

I use Trilium and I like it. The first thing I would like to mention: Trilium is stale and there is Trilium Next the official successor… More or less… If you choose to try, start with the one that is still in development.

But to be fair, I does not use it as I wanted to. My plan was to use it completly with markdown but I am to dumb or ignorant to do it right. So I simply use the wysiwig style integration to style my texts.

I will watch a video that shows me how to properly use markdown in there.

On the other hand, actually I think about switching to some AsciiDoc Notes/Wiki stuff. Simply because I like the way AsciiDoc works…

And the last to mention: I have no experience with Authelia.

If they would, no one could ask anything pre purchase.

But I also don’t like the forum in there because of the bad atmosphere. Also I don’t know whether it is because of a special group or because the general communication style in games is toxic, dumb, aggressive and egoistical as fuck… Like in almost every ingame chat.

Well, I got that mail too and I also use a 1€ server of ionos, but the mail only mentioned the price of plesk.

When I looked at the service page plesk wasn’t lizensed. So, are your sure you lizensed plesk? Because my usecase is fairly similar to yours…

Or did I got something wrong?

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