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Updating this for 2024… The Basics Password Protection Web Browsers Laptops Desktops Antivirus VPN Entertainment The Nerdy Stuff Linux vim The Basics Password Protection Passkeys are starting to happen. Step one Use a password manager. Use something that allows you to securely store randomly generated passwords. Bitwarden works well. Step two Use long passphrases if you need to remember the password. Use different(Complex, Long, and different from any other password) passwords for every website or service you use....

I tried out zsh, but it had too many buggy display bits for my tastes. After spending too much time researching the issues zsh and I called it quits for now. I’ve stuck with bash and build a fairly solid config that works for the way I work. A great book for learning bash is the O’Reily Learning the bash shell FILES /bin/bash The bash executable /etc/profile The systemwide initialization file, executed for login shells ~/....

Updating this for 2022… The Basics Password Protection Web Browsers Laptops Desktops Antivirus VPN Entertainment The Nerdy Stuff Linux vim The Basics Password Protection Step one Use a password manager. Use something that allows you to securely store randomly generated password. Bitwarden works well. Step two Use long passphrases if you need to remember the password. Use different(Complex, Long, and different from any other password) passwords for every website or service you use....

Laid out In order of urgency. Hang in there… This is like 15 years of testing and best practices I’ve nerded out on condensed into a single page. Emergency savings Put away at least $1k Somewhere safe as an emergency fund forget about it unless you are totally out of $$$. Add to this as possible Replenish as needed. This should not be your only savings. Budgeting Money Envelope system (Dave Ramsey)...

Note: I’ve had a handful of images that require the “host” cpu type. e.g. qm set $VMID --cpu cputype=host zfs - Add backup on pool assuming you have a zfs pool named “slow” zfs create slow/backups zfs set compression=lz4 slow/backups add to /etc/pve/storage.cfg dir: slow_backups path /slow/backups is_mountpoint 1 content backup,iso,vztmpl Promiscuous mode for an interface Set promiscuous mode to receive all data for programs like zeek and suricata. ip link set eno1 promisc on brctl setageing vmbr1 0 brctl setfd vmbr1 0 credit: https://github....

Las Vegas Timing We went as early as possible and the Omega Mart and we didn’t feel too crowded for the first couple of hours. Experience This was our second time visiting a Meow Wolf installation and the first time in Las Vegas. We had a ton of fun and the story was fantastic to follow and find out what is goin on. Denver Timing If you go. Go as early as possible....

I’ve been digging into welding knowledge lately. Learn to Weld: Beginning MIG Welding and Metal Fabrication Basics Hardcover – by Stephen Christena has been a good book resource for getting started. YouTube: TimWelds has been a solid video resource covering nearly any question I had within a few minutes. One thing I need to figure out is the power. I don’t have a good spot to plug in right now....

Soundcloud - Find some artists you like and see who they are connected with Locate music labels that promote music you like e.g. T&G or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_record_labels 100-500 person music venues are a great source to find acts coming through town. Research music audiophiles like e.g. https://www.whathifi.com/features/50-albums-audiophiles Look for a local radio station that doesn’t play the same 50 songs over and over. https://kdhx.org/shows/schedule Henry Rollins radio show… https://www.kcrw.com/music/shows/henry-rollins Some recomendations Albums Music Labels

Some things you should be using if you happen to use the internet. I say should because I know of what I’m talking about. Been doing this a while. 2 factor, MultiFactor, 2step, etc. Authentication This is a service that most security conscious service providers… provide. (Oddly, a lot of banks do not provide this service, Shame on you banks!) Here is a List of websites and whether or not they support 2FA....

Find by Name Find Files find . -type f Find Directories: find . -type d Find Directories with a lot of files: time sudo find . -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -50 cd to the directory you would like to search in cd /home/username find . -name pattern find . -iname "<pattern>" find ~ -iname "<pattern>" find /etc/ -iname "<pattern>" Find Files by Time prior to 365 days ago:...