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The Occasional Exposition
We got posts on posts on posts...
Installing Linux on an Old Macbook Air
I use Arch, by the way... ... I wish I could use Alpine, but it was too much of a pain to get running late at night.
Provisioning Linux virtual machines with virt-install
An explanation of the headless Linux virt-install scripts on an Alpine KVM host
Interactively Configuring Alpine as a KVM Host
An explanation of the Alpine-as-a-KVM-Host configuration script in way too many words...
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Alpine
Why spend 5 minutes dual-booting when I can spend 5 weeks building a headless Alpine Linux QEMU/KVM host?
Installing Fedora 37 on a Raspberry Pi
Fedora 37 was released a month ago and brought official Raspberry Pi 4 support with it, but let's be real, the only reason anyone cares is because it's the only hat that actually fits over the Pi's big head...
Zsh Prompts... Anything is Better than "username@hostname"
The default Zsh terminal prompt on macOS is a bit of a snooze-fest. Let's spice it up a bit with some colours, some command information, some git info, and a cheeky dash of poop emojis...
VPN Life: StrongSwan Song
Why StrongSwan? PPTP is bad, OpenVPN is good, L2TP/IPSec is probably good depending on how paranoid you are, and SSTP is good, but also bad.
VPN Life: Servers - Keep Them Hard
We're not quite at the point of installing the VPN. There are a few leftover tasks before our servers are hard enough, so let's finish them off...
VPN Life: Server Hardening
Let's talk about hardening your server... Oh, and before I start, 'server hardening' refers to improving the security on a server. Hopefully not a surprise.
Livin' the Thug... Err... VPN Life
It goes like this... Setup the VPN, test the VPN, sleep like a baby wearing a privacy Snuggie wrapped in a blanket of encryption.