THE MYTH OF LINUX SECURITY: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CHOOSING YOUR LINUX WORKSTATION DISTRO

When friends and colleagues see me running Linux, it often comes with the question or statement: Is it because Linux is more secure? Is that even the case though? While this is a common assumption, it’s important to understand that the security of Linux is more nuanced than that.

IMPLEMENTING APPARMOR FOR ENHANCED SECURITY ON ARMBIAN AND LIBRE COMPUTER'S LE POTATO SBC

This article provides a step-by-step guide on enhancing the security of a Libre Computer Le Potato SBC running Armbian by installing and enforcing AppArmor, alongside other crucial security hardening practices.

SCALING DOWN TO SCALE UP: THE ENERGY-EFFICIENT APPROACH USING LE POTATO SBC AS A RASPBERRY PI ALTERNATIVE

In this post, I share my journey of integrating the Le Potato Single Board Computer into my setup, after giving up on Raspberry Pis I could not find in stock or at a decent price. Le Potato turned out to be a great single-workload-host.

EFFICIENTLY ARCHIVING SCALEWAY BLOCK VOLUME SNAPSHOTS TO OBJECT STORAGE VIA THE CLI

Efficiently take instance block volume snapshots and archive them to object storage from the CLI, on the Scaleway platform.

TUNING ZRAM IN FEDORA FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE AND GET RID OF OOM CRASHES

Tweak Fedora’s SWAP on zram feature to increase the available RAM on your laptop or workstation.

SETTING UP NEXTCLOUD FULLTEXT SEARCH WITH ELASTICSEARCH

In this post, we will be setting up Fulltext Search on Nextcloud using nextcloud-aio container and Elasticsearch. For the purpose of this guide, we will be avoiding the use of the container mentioned in the official Nextcloud documentation as it executes processes as root, which is not ideal for many circumstances.

ENCODING CONTACT INFORMATION INTO A QR CODE

Create advertisement-free QR codes that embed your contact information in the vCard format.

OPTIMIZE BATTERY HEALTH ON DELL LINUX LAPTOPS AND FEDORA 38

Run the obsolete Dell program command-configure on Fedora 38 to control battery charge threshold from the OS.

SETTING UP AN IGNORE LIST FOR UMAMI WEB ANALYTICS

Set up an ignore list with Umami and filter out your own IP from your website visitors count - assuming a Docker Compose deployment.

CUSTOMIZE EMAIL SUBJECT PREFIX IN EVOLUTION EMAIL CLIENT

Customize email subject prefixes such as β€˜RE:’ or β€˜AW:’ in the Gnome email client Evolution so that they work accross languages.