Tag: linux

rclone copies and syncs files to cloud storage. Restic does deduplicated encrypted snapshots. Confusing them costs you restores at 2 AM.

traceroute lies. mtr tells the truth. Here's how to read packet-loss reports like an oncall engineer and stop blaming your ISP for the wrong hop.

Native ZFS dataset encryption vs LUKS under your pool, which layer to encrypt at, performance trade-offs, key management, and raw send/recv.

Your gigabit link drops to 200 Mbps and you don't know why. iperf3 measures throughput honestly, nload visualizes traffic, together they find the bottleneck fast.

Disks fail. SMART tells you when. Here's how smartctl and smartd actually predict failure, and the attributes that matter (most don't).

OpenConnect replaces the bloated AnyConnect client on Linux. Run ocserv for a self-hosted Cisco-compatible VPN server, no 200MB installer required.

Stop trusting marketing IOPS numbers. fio measures what your disk actually does on your workload, sequential, random, mixed. Here's how to read the output honestly.

FRR vs BIRD: two open-source routing daemons compared for BGP, OSPF, and home-lab dynamic routing. Which one belongs in your stack?

VM-backed Linux dev environments on macOS/Linux, Lima vs Multipass compared on speed, container support, and resource use.

PID 1 zombie reaping in containers, tini, dumb-init, and docker --init compared; when each one fixes your signal handling and stops your 10s shutdown tax.

Both are free, both run on Linux, both edit video. So which do you pick? An honest decision guide to choosing between Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve on Linux.

Edit 4K (or chunky 1080p60) on a mini PC without the timeline turning into a slideshow. Kdenlive proxies plus VAAPI/NVENC for cheap homelab editing.