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Cake day: February 19th, 2021

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  • I had always used Windows for the longest time. I used a certain cloud service and was impressed with how easy it was to manage services with docker. Fast forward a couple of years and I got a small mini-PC with Windows. I tried to install docker on it but Windows back then had no way of using Docker without virtualizing it with Hyper-V, a Pro feature. I thought let me give this another try. I tried to replicate the same setup with NSSM tools. It kinda worked eventually but it was a dirty hack at best and I did not like this solution.

    I thought to myself, why would I pay Microsoft to use a feature I can use for free with Linux and get better performance while at it.

    Here we are 7-8 years later.








  • Not a single mention of secure boot? Weird.

    I would say you are already secure enough if you are using software from official/trusted repositories and updating them on a regular basis.

    That said, if you want extra security. Drop all software that cannot run on Wayland and go even further by isolating all desktop applications with the Flatpak sandbox. This is made extremely easy with Flatseal. Maximum points if you setup secure boot.






  • I’ve broken installations many many times. But here’s a recent one that comes to mind.

    I was playing around with audit and some file was not responding as I wanted it to. Somehow my pea brain got the great idea to remove all config, uninstall audit then have the new install refresh the configs. Did this straight through the warnings and effectively broke sudo, a dependency of audit. Good thing arch-chroot exists.