Found an old WiFi dongle buried in my stuff and decided to revive a 2009 Atom netbook I’d been using as a test mule 😆

Now it runs Debian Bookworm CLI as a lightweight network gateway (Node): Ethernet uplink, WiFi AP, plus Proton VPN (free tier) for routing traffic.

Surprisingly stable and fun to push old hardware into a new life.

#Linux #Debian #Homelab #Networking #SelfHosted #VPN

You might not even like rsync. Yeah it's old. Yeah it's slow. But if you're working with Linux you're going to need to know it.

In this video I walk through my favorite everyday flags for rsync.

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Here's a companion blog post, where I cover a bit more detail: vkc.sh/everyday-rsync

Also, @BreadOnPenguins made an awesome rsync video and you should check it out:

Lastly, I left out all of the ssh setup stuff because I made a video about that and the blog post goes into a smidge more detail. If you want to see a video covering the basics of using SSH, I made one a few years ago and it's still pretty good:

Chapters:
1:18 Invoking rsync
4:05 The --delete flag for rsync
5:30 Compression flag: -z
6:02 Using tmux and rsync together
6:30 but Veronica... why not use (insert shiny object here)

Just learned how to setup the open subtitles plugin on my #Jellyfin instance!

No more messing around with .srt files - request the subtitles directly from the app.

I’ve a bunch of movies with missing language and forced subtitles that I can now watch 😁

(Language subtitles for foreign movies. Forced subtitles are used when, for example, an alien is speaking an unknown language and the subtitles should be shown on screen).

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