I tend to get a bit obsessive. A lot obsessive. Just like the word obsessive means. On and off my obsessive behavior has been playing around with Linux. I own a few Raspberry Pi\u2019s and every now and then I work on a project.\u00a0 There are really only so many easy Pi projects available to do. Desktop Linux.\u00a0 Pihole. WordPress. Home Assistant. Minecraft. Terraria. Docker with a bunch of stuff spun up on it like everything just mentioned (done a second time on docker) plus Graphana.\u00a0 Homer. Homepage. Open Media Vault on an SSD. Plex on OMV. LAMP server. Kubernetes cluster.\u00a0 Well, almost a Kubernetes cluster.\u00a0 The git had a bug in it at that time and after 5 rebuilds before figuring out it\u2019s them not me, I gave up. A tiny CA server. OpenVPN, Wireguard, Nginx reverse proxy and still sucking at Linux. Sucking meaning to say is takes me x5 what the tutorial should take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019d like to say it is fun.\u00a0 It is fun like gold About ready to give up, then something works, I get a rush and plow forward. Like golf I never got good at Linux, just good at brute forcing myself through the projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sone of the issues I created for myself. Starting over because I locked myself out of port 22 and not knowing all I needed was a keyboard and mouse to log in directly. Starting over because I hosed things up and it was easier to re-image than figuring out where I went wrong. Hardening the machines by learning iptables, nftables, router firewalls, stringing together the right set of fail2ban jails, even though I knew I was never going to put any of it on the web. Doing quality of life & security items like SSH keys to get into each pi without a password or building my own images vs. using the vanilla images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For all that work it was more about the journey than the results. The thrill of the hunt for commands or a tutorial, even though most time time I had to string multiple tutorials together.\u00a0 I looked up the same command 20 times and probably 100 commands. Spending 2 nights on one install, debugging my work\u00a0 and finally making a breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All that siad, I still use some of my creations.\u00a0 Home assistant. The kids maybe played maybe 20 hours of Minecraft\u2026.\u00a0 Building an OPNsense router vs my old wrt net gear router, which I built years ago. I graduated to a Synology NAS to hold Plex for home movies (yes I know I need to migrate to Jellyfin), photos storage, file storage, backing up all my computers, backing it all up to the cloud and an Amcrest doorbell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019m trying to say, if anything. I\u2019ve had a lot of fun. I\u2019ve had a lot of frustration. I\u2019ve compiled a ton of notes and thank god I have LastPass and OneNote. Ironic I use OneNote from Microsoft.\u00a0 Oh, yeah I get obsessive and I don\u2019t mind throwing money at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I guess that\u2019s what this blog will be about. The things that I have been, I am or I will be obsessive about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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