If you want to be able to get into the nitty gritty or play with options besides just a chat, I recommend Text Generation WebUI.
Installing is pretty easy, then you just download your desired model from Hugging Face.
Or if you want to use it for roleplay or adventure style games, KoboldCPP is easy to set up.
I used Libation. It’s free, it’s open source and it worked great for me
Don’t forward the port in your router, it’s not required and is just adding a vulnerable entry point into your network.
You can use a port checker tool to see if the port you are using is open (using the VPN IP). If it’s just myanonamouse that’s not recognising it, I recommend asking for help on there :)
In addition to checking the official apps player settings, I found Findroid can direct play a lot more files than the official app.
Crowdsec will analyse the logs from your reverse proxy and identify malicious actors, bots and whatever else you configure it to. It then tells a “bouncer” (part of your reverse proxy) to reject the request, block the IP or redirect them to a captcha.
The downside is that it’s kinda a pain to get set up, at least in my experience. It also stopped working without informing me and I’ve never been able to get it working again since. If you don’t use docker the experience might be a bit easier.
This has been my slightly controversial take as well.
Brands and governments can create their Thread accounts (they were never going to join Mastadon), users can use Mastadon to access those if they want, while keeping away from Meta.
It could be what’s needed to bring Mastadon into the main stream.
Sonarr dark mode! Finally I won’t be blinded when I open it to try and fix a series at 1am.