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Made a simple, free/open-source helper app to forward ports from remote hosts to localhost/etc. Just simple SSH under the hood, but a lot easier to deal with multiple ports & repeated connections (just toggle a switch in…
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My small German homelab – NAS, OPNsense, Plex and lots of backups
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