How to install encrypted Debian on an M1 MacBook Pro

In this post I’ll describe how to install an encrypted Debian (13, “Trixie”) on an M1 MacBook Pro (others might work too).

What happened to GNOME?

The last time I used GNOME (a few years ago I think it was Version 3) I was surprised at how ugly it had gotten and how much of an “improvement” this was praised as.

How To Host Your Own APT Mirror

In this post I will describe the necessary steps to host your own APT mirror that you can use in your local network to speed up package installations and updates, and save bandwidth.

How to remotely set up an encrypted Debian 12 server (IMHO)

Welcome to another IMHO post.

This time I am going to write about setting up servers. From zero to serving stuff. Additionally, I’ll try to describe basic security measures that I think are a good base for a secure deployment.

Setting up an encrypted MQTT server on Debian/Ubuntu using mosquitto.

MQTT is a messaging protocol intended for smaller applications (in “footprint”, not necessarily scale) which is available since 1999 but is currently receiving a lot of attention since the rise of the internet of things and the need to send small messages as simply as possible. In this tutorial I will show how to install a mosquitto server on Debian/Ubuntu based systems.

How to monitor dedicated servers (IMHO)

I have been playing with monitoring applications and servers for a while now and especially like Prometheus and Grafana.

In this post I’ll explain how I monitor my servers.