Thanks for writing, it's mostly over my head sadly. Maybe if you come out west you can explain over the course of a 8 hour lunch and I'll understand. Seriously though, I plan to do some kind of home server thing soonish. Friend of mine stream his music from his server and I want that badly

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I have resistance to understanding these things, I think because there's so much one has to just take in faith and there's no hope to understand details of a lot of pieces. Or maybe I'm slow
for linux the wireguard clients for windows and mac are full GUIs so that's pretty easy to set up. but you need to have a VPS running one that the servers are clients of, and then with a device connected to the server, you can tunnel to the gaming machine and watch its stream if it's listening on 0.0.0.0 or specifically on the wireguard client IP address i use it also with my mobile, idk about ios but there is an android GUI client for wireguard too, so you can stream to a mobile as well. i cannot recommend enough playing with wireguard for this kind of thing. self hosting relays also is another thing you can do. wss://test.orly.dev redirects to my pc and you can reach it when i'm running it for tests, solves the TLS/SSL certificate bullshit. which reminds me, yet another piece of useful software i wrote that github is denying public acccess to
I do have wireguard installed on my router to get at my nas without doing a port forward to allow the NAS manufacturer access. But I vaguely think wireguard is becoming more common even on consumer routers.