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tldr I quite like it. Some background information As mentioned in my about section, I've been daily driving Linux since August 2021 but have been using it as part of side projects for years before …

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Recently, I switched from Nginx Proxy Manager - the Docker container - to bare Nginx. Or more specifically the open source webserver and reverse proxy - there are many other products available. Ther…

tldr: password managers provided by large companies, while convenient and come with some very nice faeatures are very much vulnerable to having data breaches and can have security issues. You don't wa…

Hello again, it's been... *checks time and laughs nervously* almost 4 months since my last post. Almost as long as the gap between my PVE and first VPS post, so quite some time. When I first started t…

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We've been here before. # Actually, scratch that, bit of a shit opener. Assuming you're a normal, functional human being (i.e., not a snail keeper) you probably haven't been here before. And that's ok…

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Picture this... # It's ~circa 2010 and your older sister has just entered her fanfiction phase - alongside this there comes the fanfiction.net account, the tumblr blogs, the AMVs (with Cascada's 'Ever…

Preface Back in July, I wrote a post detailing what I run on my VPS, some things have changed since then so I thought I'd come back with an update. If you haven't read the previous post I suggest you…

A few months ago, I started learning about containers using Docker. This has certainly been a fun experience overall (though sometimes frustrating 😛). One issue with this is rebuilding the container…

Choosing how to spend your time. This is something I struggle with regularly. In the past, I would spend every free hour of each day playing video games, from Minecraft to Crusader Kings to Heroes o…

Hey, I'm Eirika! Welcome to first post of my new blog. I plan to use this blog to record things I've learnt and tried, whether they are successes or failures, as well as maybe litter a few of my pers…

I switched to Santander UK’s student account last year, as it provided the best value for me. However I noticed I couldn’t access their Online Banking from my laptop (who’s DNS I sec…

A few months ago I made a post on Proxmox and what I run/ran on my physical home server, and whilst I have now fixed my hardware issues (by geting completely different hardware) I am yet to recreate a…