Why Switch from Cloudflare Tunnels to Tailscale? While Cloudflare Tunnels is a popular choice for opening home networks, Tailscale offers greater control over device access and simplified configuration using WireGuard. With Tailscale on a VPS, you can secure your home network without compromising on security or dealing with port-forwarding and firewall configurations. Prerequisites Tailscale Installation:…
Category: How-To
KASM – My main workspace RBI
In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the process of installing KASM, a popular Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) solution, as the main workspace on a home lab using a virtual machine (VM) in Proxmox. This setup will enable you to securely isolate web browsing activities, protecting your network and sensitive data from potential web-based…
Transforming a Mini PC into a Powerful Home Network Hub / Router/ Firewall with OPNsense
When it comes to optimizing home network infrastructure, the choice of hardware and software plays a pivotal role. I recently embarked on a project to elevate my home network using a fanless mini PC and the robust capabilities of OPNsense. Here’s a detailed journey of how I turned a compact, silent mini PC into a…
Ansible – Make Any Linux Distro Yours Using Ansible
During my consumption of tech YouTube content, I came across a video talking about Ansible Pull. I am familiar with Ansible, so I queue it up. As soon as I finished the video this project came to mind. I know a lot of Linux desktop users use git to store their rc files and config…
Cronjobs – Reboot schedule
So because one of my VMs was acting up (due to a lot of transcoding on my media server) when not rebooting for a long period, I had to look for a cronjob format that would help with this issue. I’d use cron (should already be installed): The first time you might have to choose…
Tired of being prompted for a password on sudo? Same!
The preferred way to grant individual (or group) permissions would be to add files under /etc/sudoers.d This separates local changes from the default policy and saves time in case the distribution sudoers file changes. To make the currently logged-in user a sudoer and sudo not prompt them for a password, use this will create a file called /etc/sudoers.d/$USER (where $USER is…