Author: johan
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NextCloud with two reverse proxies
I’ve recently started running NextCloud on my home LAN. To make it easier to manage, I decided to go with the AIO route, so I can leverage Docker on a Raspberry Pi device running Ubuntu Server. Because I don’t have a static public IP address at home, I decided to go with a Cloudflare ZeroTrust…
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Adventures in stress induced insomnia
This was going to just be a simple post on Mastodon, but it doesn’t quite fit into a 500 character limit. I have a bit of a struggle with insomnia, caused to some extent by the stress of the job I do. While I could say quite a bit about the cause of this and…
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More Linux Mint convenience
This is part 6 of my series of posts about making Linux Mint my daily driver. Last time we looked at A better way to use dnsmasq on Linux Mint, which turned out to have some annoyances related to it. This time we look at two more little conveniences I’ve recently implemented. Some Windows stuff…
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A Wireguard based VPN with user authentication
This post doesn’t describe specific implementation details, because the Intellectual Property for the system described here belongs to my employer. Instead it describes the basic idea behind the Wireguard based VPN I built. Names and IP addresses referred to here are not the ones used in my implementation. Wireguard is a good encrypted tunnelling protocol,…
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A better way to use dnsmasq on Linux Mint
This is part 5 of my series of posts about making Linux Mint my daily driver. Last time we looked at Gaming on Linux Mint, this time we look at a slightly better way of using dnsmasq instead of systemd-resolved for DNS. Update on 2024-08-23: So there was another systemd update and it stomped all…
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Gaming on Linux Mint
This is part 4 of my series of posts about making Linux Mint my daily driver. Last time we looked at some customisations I did for work, this time we’ll have a look at some of the stuff I do to play the games I enjoy. Minecraft When it comes to gaming, my absolute favourite…
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Some Linux Mint customisations for work
This is part 3 of my series of posts about making Linux Mint my daily driver. Last time we looked at the start of my Mint move. In that post I mentioned that my move was pretty quick and the stuff I did for the move won’t be fresh in my memory for long. This…
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[Opinion] Unhelpful reactions to the Crowdstrike mess
A disclaimer to start off with. I use Linux as my daily driver, and my day job is not a Crowdstrike client. This means this whole mess is having much less of an effect on me than on some IT people around the world. While this whole Crowdstrike issue has caused a lot of disruption,…
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The start of my Mint move
This is post 2 of my planned series about making Linux Mint my daily driver. The first post is Changing my daily driver to Mint. Firstly, a little note about my hardware setup. The machine I’m using is an ASUS TUF F17 gaming laptop. While it’s a gaming laptop, I primarily use it for work…
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Changing my daily driver to Mint
In my last post, about using dnsmasq for funky DNS stuff, I mentioned in passing that I’m busy turning Linux Mint into my daily driver (for those who are not familiar with the term, “daily driver” is a term for the operating system you run on your primary computer, for most people that would be…