"Bad Guys"

I find Bad Guys fascinating. Particularly their portrayal in media. You see, I watched Andor a while ago, and, as laughable as it may sound, that series was a major factor in shaping my politics and, to a certain degree, my outlook on the world today. I have a small…

Fixing OpenSUSE

I fixed my dad's OpenSUSE tumbleweed install last night. It was interesting enough that I figure I can write a short story on it. Disclaimer: This blogpost has a few malpractices, such as hoping an update will fix broken packages and not doing a backup before messing with the operating…

How To Use TOR

TOR is cool. TOR stands for The Onion Router. I assume Onion refers to the layers used to protect users and servers from censorship and surveillance, not dissimilar to the layers of an onion. TOR is the means of accessing everything outside of the surface web, particularly the spooky dark…

Monitoring, Upgraded

A long time ago (like 2 years) I had installed node exporter, prometheus, and grafana on my K3S cluster. This was useful to visualise resource usage in all my nodes, and served as a constant reminder of how underpowered the control plane was. With my new cluster having run for…

Ditching My Reverse Proxy

I used to run an Nginx reverse proxy outside of my Kubernetes cluster on a 4th Dell Optiplex acting as a monolith server. I still use it for all things I would not put on Kubernetes (eg Minecraft servers) but I want to reduce the impact of this single point…