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  • You already got a bunch of answers here, but I just want to narrow down on this part:

    However, pretty frequently, they’ll reset my router/gateway’s firewall configuration, which blocks basically all ipv6 traffic by default, and the other day, they even removed my port forwards while I was away, and hid my server from the port forwarding screen so I couldn’t add them back until I got physical access to the server.

    I cannot express enough how much you need to stop using their router/modem. Its going to cost more, you have no control, they are undoubtedly using the built in AP to sniff data about devices around, etc, etc, etc.

    Friends don’t let friends use ISP provided hardware. Especially if Comcast gave it to you. Please get your own.

    I recommend a modem, a router, and preferably the AP as entirely separate devices.

    Good luck and have fun




    • Media is on Jellyfin. Includes movies, music videos, music, TV shows, and educational material (sight words, letters, numbers, etc).
    • Tuxkart because… Well its fun.
    • gcompris - great educational materials + getting to know a computer.
    • Minecraft and that has come up enough recently that I’ll probably set up luanti or something, set it up so her friends can play on there too.

    And I’m going to keep going back to this thread to see what other people have got that I don’t!


  • Full caveat - not personally into immutable, 90% of the time I’m in Debian or a derivative. 9% arch or derivative. 1% work requirements made me have to use something else.

    So I’m less making a rec on method and more commenting on this:

    I’ve read that containers are preferred for development, but they aren’t persistent

    They absolutely can be, thats the point of mounting volumes. I don’t want to do the same thing more than once, so whether I’m playing with something stupid at home or I’m doing something critical at work, I’m going to make a spot for any and all changes I might want to make to use it again elsewhere, without much effort. That could mean mapping a directory to a volume, setting specific variables in my compose/kompose, having a container grab data from elsewhere every time it starts, or whatever, but the parts I want persistent are, the parts I want variable are.

    Keeping whether or not containers are the “right” way on an immutable distro aside, what isn’t persistent for you that should be?