Connecting to Home from Abroad
A long time ago I set up a VPN server on my pfSense network gateway. Then I switched away from pfSense, and then Covid happened, and during a number of years...
Recent Posts
Fixing Performance Issues in Dirt Rally 2.0
A while ago I suddenly began seeing wild framerate fluctuations and gradual performance drops as stages progressed in my current favorite car game, Dirt Rall...
Lenovo X260 as a Unix workhorse
I’m writing this post from an old Lenovo X260 on which I’ve installed Fedora 39. For desktop usage this is currently my favorite Linux distribution: It suppo...
Alternatives to ESXi in the Home Lab
On Valentine’s day this year, Broadcom did what many of us expected it to do, and decapitated the free vSphere (ESXi) hypervisor.
Messing With the Badguys
Scrolling through my HAProxy logs, I got a bit miffed at the amount of bot traffic I saw attempting to access nonexistent paths obviously looking for weaknes...