SSH Hangs Forever: A WireGuard MTU Black Hole
Small SSH commands worked, big ones hung forever. The culprit wasn’t the server, the disk, or SSH — it was 28 bytes of MTU.
Linux
Mounting Samba Shares via /etc/fstab
How to persistently mount a Samba share from another machine using /etc/fstab on Linux.
Rsync trailing slash
How rsync treats trailing slashes — whether the source directory itself is copied or only its contents.
Spinning Down Idle Disks on a Linux Home Server
hdparm spindown_time, udev rules, and the services (smartd, ZFS, media scanners) that quietly keep your drives awake.
I Use Arch, BTW
A journey into the world of Arch Linux.
Setup Fail2Ban
Learn how to install, configure, and manage Fail2Ban to secure your SSH server.