I’m kind of new to LND and Linux in general, so some of my paranoid design decisions are probably built on faulty logic. But my line of reasoning at the time was…. I want to keep all my Bitcoin stuff as physically close to me as possible, so stuff like bitcoin core, electrum server, and LND live on the home servers. But for stuff that requires inbound connections that expose my IP, like LNUrl or even just receiving money over LN when supplying an invoice, I want to keep those open ports as *far away* from me as possible. That’s when I came up with using port forwarding over a OpenVPN tunnel (using Proton as anonymizer). Probably not the most efficient way to do it but was a fun learning exercise.

Love this kind of nerdy stuff. I’ve been looking for a way to expose LNUrl API to the outside world and have it transparently instruct my LND server to create invoices. Alby works, but for a number of reasons I don’t really trust those guys. And BTCPay seems like overkill. Perhaps this is what I’m looking for. I always take extra care to anonymize the IP address of my server(s), both the LNUrl endpoint and the LND node itself. The way I personally handle that is: I lease the cloud server with Bitcoin (as opposed to credit card) and connect to it only over an anonymizing, persistent, OpenVPN connection. From there, I can forward traffic destined for the LNUrl and/or LND endpoints from the cloud server to my home server using NGINX or simple port forwarding without exposing my home IP address. It’ll just cross over the tunnel so there’s no direct connection between my cloud and home servers.

I’m only a few weeks into my Linux journey. I’m now using Debian 12 on a rather old Dell PowerEdge for DHCP server, Tor relay, Nginx web hosting, Bitcoin core node, LND node, SQL Server, OpenVPN routing, and a few other odds and ends. It’s been a fun ride. Linux on the servers and a clean install of Windows 11 on the client to manage everything seems to be the magic combination. Next goal: Nix Proton and self-host my email, contacts, and calendar.

It’s nice to finally see some Gen-X mockery. I’m a Gen-X’er but I feel like it’s the Millennial vs Boomer jibes that get all the attention, and somehow we X’ers get left out.

It does seem men are less interested in chasing women these days, but I don’t think it’s due to some anti-flirting campaign. Only feminist fatties promote that kind of garbage, and no desirable man wants to flirt with, much less date a feminist fatty anyway - so it’s moot. Instead, I think a rapidly growing minority of men are simply concluding that relationships with modern American women (even 8’s and 9’s) are a waste of time and money. Whether that conclusion is correct or not is certainly up for debate. All I know is, I opted out of that rat race in my thirties and at the time it was considered, if not unacceptable, at least unconventional. Nowadays though it seems to be treated as a legitimate, rational and acceptable path for a man.

Sweet. I wish they had them in San Diego.

How does it work? Can you pay with lightning?

Used to be a huge fan, but I’ve been liking Proton a lot less lately. They offer all of these half-finished products, and now are trying to shove their garbage AI product down users’ throats. They literally said in their announcement letter, “AI is here, whether we like it or not.” Their whole mentality has shifted. They seem shady now. Since I started learning and using Linux, I’ve been self-hosting more and more. If there’s an app to host email, contacts, and calendar, I’d drop Proton in a heartbeat.

You’re not missing much. TV is a woke, anti-Christian cesspool and the news media is pretty much just leftist propaganda at this point. At least in the US.

One of these days some kind Bitcoiner will tell me who the heck Laura is.