Why don’t you just fork it, remove the logo, an set up a domain yourself?

Alternatively, you could set up a presentation that they are a white labeling service, and the reason they use that domain and mascot is to discourage corporations from using the free tier, since the free tier is meant for personal use, and that their reaction is exactly what Anubis aims for unless a corporation is willing to pay for customized service tailored to them.

That ship may have sailed by now depending on how you dealt with the situation, but that would have been the best case scenario. Advocating for something that you know is good, is also good for your career, because now, even if you do recommend something else, your reputation will still be marked by the fact you recommended Anubis and then folded without explaining well why you recommended Anubis despite the mascot. If you still can, I’d bring up the whole thing with the mascot anyway even if you move on to recommend a different service, to save your own reputation for the future, since you seem to be so focused on your perceived career.

Anyway, you can use Cloudflare. Ideologically I oppose it, but it works and is familiar with the non-tech people. There’s also SilentShield, which is based in Europe and in my opinion works better than Cloudflare’s protection in terms of load times.

I can work with that, mainly world design and SFX. And it’s good that you have experience in programming. Just know game development is a different beast, unlike standard software development. I agree it can be useful in some minor things, but from personal experience of just using it to understand the technology, it really mucks things up when it comes to interactions. It’s good for repetitive code generation (especially collision) but not for tasks such as enemy AI. As long as you know how to code for game systems though, it can still speed up the process.

You also have to remember that when it comes to making a game, you’re not competing with production but you’re making a form of interactive art (or, of only for the money, a gambling machine, but that’s not what this game looks to be). LLMs won’t make much of a difference in the indie field, because you’re not a large studio with shareholders that needs to focus on speed and cutting costs. You have time and flexibility, and no shareholders to answer to.

You have a good concept, but not really a game.

If you’re willing to transfer most (nearly all) of the workload to be non-LLM, message me and I’d be willing to help.

But know it is not industry standard to use LLMs for games. They do not write optimized code, which is the last thing you want for a game, let alone an MMO.

I can also help build you a basic lightweight website you could self host if you’d like.

You mean containerizing Swizzin?

It wasn’t a bug, it’s a feature that’s now deprecated.

When I did wget (curl didn’t work) I received the message that Debian 13 Trixie is not supported.

They seem to only support Debian 10, 11, and 12, along with Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04

It does. There’s a good YouTube video on how to set it up using Heroic. The issue is it essentially resets itself after any update.

Do I install it like normal and make that change? Or do the “first time login” install then do that change?

I didn’t know about the homophobe thing. I’m talking about the whole secretly mining crypto thing they did in the past and then afterwards the sketchy crypto pay stuff they tried to pull off after

Edit: and now I see the Brax phone controversy linked in the main post. I’m thinking it’s not so strange Brave browser keeps popping up in problematic projects like this. Birds of a feather flock together I suppose.

The Brax phone raised some extremely serious red flags when I saw they put on their banner it was promoted by Joe Rogan and use Brave as their primary browser.

Having two scammers featured makes it feel like a scam.

It’s like a condensed list of the shittiest of tech people, Sans Google

You can automate a task to analyze the network traffic (though don’t underestimate human checks - remember the guy that noticed something was off by like 0.1% and discovered the logistics attack on Linux?).

Also, you can probably trust hardware made yourself that’s more than that, like FPGA.

Can’t you just check network connections for suspicious activity? At some point the thing affected by the KTH would send an outbound signal either of data collected, or inbound signals if it’s updating the backdoor.

Looking at their git, it seems it’s still technically mantained, but not often.

https://github.com/IceWhaleTech/CasaOS/discussions/2386

I wouldn’t use it for anything requiring much security, but for other stuff it’s probably fine?

Isn’t CasaOS deprecated now and replaced with ZimaOS? Also, does that mean you’re running it in something like Gnome Boxes? Because from what I remember CasaOS was customized Debian

Already planning on them adding Rustdesk in case of issues in the future actually 😅

I know it doesn’t need hourly updates but something that relies on other data (in this case LLMs) probably needs yearly updates at the very least to ensure better compatibility with newer models.

It’s a good reference guide, yes, but it’s not good for beginners. The linked TRaSH guide seems better but I think are still a lot.

The issue I’ve found when searching for resources for them is that there’s really no guide me for people who know very little but want to do this and guides them in the proper steps from beginning to end. I have an IT degree and even I remember struggling a little bit when I first delved into self hosting because I never really studied networking, and networking feels like a different field entirely. Right now self hosting in general reminds me of the early days of Slackware (maybe even SLS) Linux (for those that remember) - you kind of have to ask around and figure things out on your own through a bunch of lookup.

I’m trying to ease the friction a little bit for those that want too start, and want to see if an LLM that can quickly define some words and tell you not only where to start but the steps after that based on your skill/knowledge level can ease some of that friction.

At least until one day self hosting becomes about as easy as modern Linux.

I am interested in this in general too. I have a 3090 which I know isn’t much but have been thinking of trying to get a second 3090 and using an NVLink to increase to 48Gb. Mostly for learning and testing purposes, and then to eventually offer to donate to my wife’s local school district a local model they own (since teachers aren’t supposed to put student info online, that includes private LLM models like ChatGPT, but they keep accidentally doing so anyway).

But one project at a time, and setting up this LLM would help my two friends if they have issues (it’s easy to forget for people like us that to nearly everyone else, setting up Jellyfin properly with remote access as well as things like Docker are not easy, even when they have base level knowledge), but it might help others in the future too that might then get interested in self hosting. A 24/7 guide can make a difference I think in someone actually trying self hosting or not.

I asked mostly because I haven’t seen any guides like that. The long video guides are also usually outdated or a very specific method that’s more advanced (like bare metal setup or using ignition)

My plan was to lead them through something like what I use which is base Debian using Dockge and a reverse proxy (though I’m looking into KDE Plasma BigScreen). I think they might be able to figure it out with help and some general written instructions and the AI for further questions.