Stuff to read while heading to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters...
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Stuff to read while heading to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters...
Jul 01, 2022
Do you want to more-securely expose your self-hosted services to the internet? Do you like the idea of products like Cloudflare Tunnel, but would prefer more control over your infrastructure? Then this setup is for you!
The basic idea is to host a reverse proxy on a basic Virtual Private Server (VPS) with a public IP, which then proxies traffic through a Wireguard connection to your home network.
Pros Cons - Hides your home IP from the world, since the VPS is the only one that needs to know it - No built-in DDoS protection like Cloudflare provides - Very easy to customize and implement your own protections - Takes a bit more work (but you learn more!
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Jan 02, 2022
There are lots of tutorials online about setting up Wireguard on a Raspberry Pi, this is just how I chose to do it. However, the two things my previous installs were missing were reliability (my previous install corrupted the SD card after running for about a year) and a nice web UI that could monitor the amount of traffic per client. So this tutorial includes:
Installing Wireguard Installing Linguard - A nice web UI that monitors traffic and allows adding/modifying interfaces and firewall rules nicely.
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Aug 19, 2021
The announcement of Valve’s Steamdeck and the continued improvement of their Proton tool has brought me one step closer to abandoning Windows for good.
However, one of the last things that keeps me going back to Mr. Gates is the lack of industry-standard CAD tools on linux. Don’t get me wrong, tools like FreeCAD and OpenSCAD are great, but if I’m going to take the time to learn some CAD software I’d like to use software that will likely be used by future employers.
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Apr 22, 2021
“What do you make besides toys?”
“Don’t you just throw most of the stuff away?”
Questions like these pop up a lot when somebody is thinking about getting into the 3D printing hobby. Well I can help justify picking it up!
I do, of course, end up printing toys, figures, and stuff for fun (including the door stopper in the post title). But I have found 3D printing great for little things around the house as well.
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Jan 22, 2021
In the times of COVID-19, many things sold online are currently out of stock. Some people enjoy constantly hitting F5 on webpages, but for the rest of us there has to be a better way.
There are a couple of browser extension options and cloud-based options such as Distill.io which work great, but cost money or require a browser to be left open and running. Anyone who runs a home server has a couple more efficient options:
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