Reasons I can think of:

1. The official Android client for lemmy, Jerboa, only supports 0.18 and later, unless users download older version from github and sideload manually.

2. Sorting is broken pre 0.18, new posts keeps flowing in.

3. Performance improvement by removing web socket from lemmy. (which fixes 2, which is why 1. happens)

I have seem similar thread on Reddit, this answer I liked the most.

Hello can you hear me? Oh wait, wrong planet, sorry

Is the gist of it.

Is it really crucial to find a VPN that supports port forwarding

It's crucial when the only seeder won't open their port.

what’s the go to option now that it’s becoming increasingly uncommon

My opinion: I wish qbittorrent 4.6 would release sooner, it comes with I2P support, which I've seen discussed on lemmy a few times.

Stats from my seedbox (all public torrents)

Uploaded: 638.311 TiB

Downloaded: 29.120 TiB

Ratio: 21.91

There was a post that has code snippet that tells lemmy admins to turn on email verification and captcha.

And then lemmy.world admin turned off signup for a little while to clean up bot accounts.

Then account numbers jumped 84k in one day.

Coincidence? I don't think so.

HDMI splitter, some product specifically says they are able to bypass HDCP.

Use a cellphone under trees in rain.

Learned few days ago that it's not actually dangerous, at least doesn't make you have a higher change to be struck by thunder.

I tried it again and you are totally correct if you see this message.

Try GParted live iso image.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues

FORM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORM_(symbolic_manipulation_system)

Recent news article: https://www.wired.com/story/a-crucial-particle-physics-computer-program-risks-obsolescence/

I am using ZSH, that function that allows you to type part of the command and then do UP key to find previous command starts with same prefix is killer function for me.

(I don't know if this function is added by oh-my-zsh or not.)

Serverhunter is a search engine for cloud servers and has easy to use filter functions.

I am surprised that I didn't see anyone link to https://lowendtalk.com/ and https://lowendspirit.com/, OP can ask in both places and see what people have for offer.

https://netboot.xyz/

You might not need it but it's a very small image (3.5MB for multi-arch iso) so why not?

some sort of dashboard with monitoring and statuses of all my services

See if Uptime Kuma suits your needs.

Are there any major no-no things a newbie might do with Docker/selfhosting that I should avoid?

Allow password based SSH authentication, you should look into key based authentication

I wanted to have it behind a domain, how would I achieve it?

Use a reverse proxy (like caddy) which serves different content based on domain name.

I do this in winter, warms my room a little while doing (what I think is) good.

lemmy.ml says they are overloaded, I then found beehaw but they requires signup application so I say fuck it and choose lemmy.world instead.

Some billionaires will build a business around this.

Abduct children and lock them up in underground dungeon, feed them sleeping pills until they are dead.

Essentially what human has already done to pigs and cows.

Since rarbg went down I've been grabbing things before they gone for good.

I want to mention Person of Interest, that show is so good (and more relevant than ever) I watched it all twice, and remuxed version is available online!

Note: some .xyz domains (6-9digit numbers) are amazingly cheap, cost about 1USD/yr.