https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#Command-Grouping

I don’t see any mention of only being allowed to use a semicolon. I don’t have a test system handy unfortunately.

Ideally you’d simplify or separate your logic so that you’re not relying so much on bash. If you need complex logic, I’d use another language, depending on what’s available in your environment.

It’s been a while, but ^S suspends output to the terminal and ^Q resumes, I think. I don’t know if it’s really supported in the modern era.

Create a vpn tunnel between the public and private servers for that app.

There’s no time to learn like the present! Your existing compose file has an example, but if that doesn’t work, the traefik docs are useful too.

Then drop nginx and just use traefik.

Why are you using both nginx and traefik?

Does it actually continue playing? I know on desktop if it’s turned off, it still pops up like it’s going to continue, but it actually stops.

It is. MIT license on the code, CC-BY on the binaries and resources.

You don’t want Arch then. I’m sure other people will chime in with recommendations. I’m hesitant to make desktop recommendations because I mostly use Linux on the server, and I’ve never used an atomic distro or similar. But you probably want something mainstream, stable, and well-supported like Fedora.

If secure boot is off, and you run malware on your pc, it can change the boot process to escalate privileges.

This probably requires root or admin in the first place, but if they can install a malware loader, they can establish persistence so that even if you remove the os-level components, they’ll be reinstalled on reboot.

Only the really big names like Intel, Dell, HP… but even then they’ll still go out of support eventually.

What are your goals or requirements? What have you found limiting in other distros?

Not just old insecure, but current insecure too. Plenty of stuff runs fully current but still vulnerable code. Put it behind a firewall.

Nor is it authentication.

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

Inbound spam is also a problem. Gmail’s filter is pretty good, and it responds to what you personally mark as spam. Other providers aren’t as good, and I don’t know if there’s any good self-hosted filter at all.

Yeah, residential ISPs do that because if they don’t, spammers will just turn every botnet member into a spam host. You’ll probably have to get a business connection or change ISPs.

Or just don’t self-host email. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you’re a masochist.

Even better would be to automatically install vlc-plugins-all for people upgrading, so that it preserves the existing behavior.

If you need to restore it, back it up.

How do you plan to restore if the whole drive dies?

I’d say you want Linux from Scratch then, but even then the Linux kernel maintainers are making choices for you.

But Linus is very firm in that they never break userspace, so you should never see an issue like this when updating the kernel.