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If you have really high end speakers you can hear difference between 160 Vorbis and 320 MP3, but between 160 Vorbis and 192 MP3 no way.

Nope, I would not call 160kbps Vorbis low bitrate, it’s roughly quality of 192kbps MP3. Only the ”popularity=0” stuff (so stuff with so few listens that Spotify does not keep record of) were re-encoded to 75kbps Opus, which as a modern codec is much better than it sounds like but of course re-encode is not great for already lossy stuff.

For purists there are those Tidal downloader sites available everywhere for free lossless music, even 24-bit hires FLAC.

0-popularity, not 0-streams, which are two different metrics according to the archive blog post. But nevertheless, the re-encoded stuff is stuff pretty much no one will miss. Also Opus at 75kbps is much better than Vorbis or mp3 at that bitrate.

Simple reverse proxy like Nginx PM or Caddy before Jellyfin server and that’s it? Yes, it’s also good to have some DynDNS domain but those don’t cost a thing. Then CrowdSec plugin to keep the bots away and look you’re homelabbing like a pro! Next thing you know you are building this all on top of hypervisor like Proxmox, configuring GPU passthrough and whatnot.

Any old Raspberry Pi on your network can forward a port from LAN to the Jellyfin server on Tailscale somewhere. Single iptables masquerade command should do the trick. Or if you happen to have a good router with owrt support you can run Tailscale there too.

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Randomized = unique, unless it is done ”smartly” by setting some very very common combo. Or unless it randomizes for every page load (which I recon would mess up many site functions, window width/height for example). And if there is not that many users having this on you shine like a beacon again as ”that randomizer guy”.

Hops don’t matter at all against fingerprinting, which includes things like fonts you have installed, the os, os version number, browser version, extensions, some browser settings/flags, timezone, keyboard layout, your screen resolution, dpi, and what ever the crap the ”canvas” has stored. So pretty much no matter what you do, you’re unique.

You can use some browsers that resist fingerprinting but guess what, those are so rarely used that again you shine like a beacon. I’m still yet to find an browser extension that would fake all my fingerprint parameters by setting them as what is the most common one in each category. So a Windows user running latest Chrome full screen on Fullhd monitor.

And there is nothing stopping websites running the fingerprinting services and scripts on their own server, albeit most rely on third parties for convenience, and these at least can be blocked.

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This is ridiculous but I’ve seen it too with many clients. Sending highly confidential info and data over WA is just the norm with some. The mind boggles.

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It’s always a weather balloon, or swamp gas, or Venus…

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Good to know! *-cert is definitely something I’d need to setup in my self host setup, though a little complex as my (free) domain provider does not let me edit TXT records for DNS-01.

I’d say basic = good but now that iOS has had more and more options for everything in each version, I think it has approached Android in too many ways. There is now bajillion different ways to do stuff, when earlier there was one (albeit sometimes little limited). And you can configure so much stuff that it becomes difficult to see what affects what.

But I would not describe iOS as ”basic” anymore, perhaps limited in some niche use cases but if you find yourself hitting those limits too often, just jump to Android. When I can run x86 Linux apps and services constantly on background on my iPhone (iSH w/ location services forced on) or even Windows XP for the heck of it (UTM), I don’t see much limitations in what can (theoretically) be done. Sideloading is also an upwards trend on iOS, when Google is now set to kill it on Android.

That’s what I do to get our company ”protection suite” to open up the firewall when I’m outside company network - just set the same Wifi SSID and IP range.

Umm, wildcard certs from ZeroSSL seem to run at $52.99 per month, billed yearly. Free plan does not have those, neither does Basic.

OpenRed perhaps? Don’t know if it requires an account to browse certain parts or Reddit.