I know, I said "I can imagine that my freetime will be even less the moment I start working.
" as well. I also spend at least 30 minutes doing my homework or studying for exams every day for 1-2 hours. So let's say 6 hours of freetime
Why did you need to write an essay to explain your opinion? Y'know, Shovel's "Oh no it is, I'm an agent of chaos" does imply he is a troll. Especially because he replied like that to a captioned image that suggested that the chat didn't went as Shovel planned to. And what do you imply he should've done? Banning is the appropriate action here. It wasn't even permanent or a purge ban. I usually permanently purge ban trolls. I don't get the extreme hate towards squid. Be grateful that there are even mods moderating communities, they aren't paid even one cent for being a mod.
Why would they need to understand? Just tell them that it's needed to play on the server and set it up for them. Whenever they want to play, they can use the VPN.
Have fun. As I got older, I deeply regret not going out or doing fun activities now that I am in high school. I had so much fucking time, but I wasted them all on stupid bullshit. Now I have only like 7 hours of freetime, and I can imagine that my freetime will be even less the moment I start working.
You should isolate it. Use Docker or Podman or any container solution to put the server in a container for isolation from the main system.
Any external directory outside the container the server won't write to should be in read only mode.
If the server is only for your friends. Stop exposing your network to the public and instead use VPNs.
goddam