Over the course of many years, I have developed a deep familiarity with Ubuntu, the operating system that I use daily. My relationship with Ubuntu is complex, it’s a mix of love, hate and frustration. I’m so used to working on it, but sometimes find myself struggling with certain quirks and limitations, and updates can be a source of both excitement and anxiety. On one hand updates bring enhanced functionality and features, and on the other hand something stops working. How exciting!
Why should you do it? Security If you’re using Cloudflare as a DNS proxy for your domain, you might have noticed that Cloudflare first sets up a flexible SSL connection. Flexible ssl websites get all the benefits of https, Google likes them and visitors like them. Even more, these websites Read more…
That’s right. I did this and forgot about it, and was wondering why my laptop freezes after running a single IntelliJ, Chrome with 20 open tabs, docker desktop with 4 running containers and maybe a single nodejs process. I thought it would be a good idea to minimize swap space Read more…
I’m a long time user of Ubuntu, and still can’t remember some simple tasks…like how to create a launcher icon on Ubuntu. Keeping a cheat sheet here, so I won’t forget next time Jetbrains pushes an update. Btw this works for any kind of launcher, not just IntelliJ… Step 1: Read more…
Earlier today I got a cold sweat moment after I accidentally ran a sudo rm /etc/group. I just wanted to edit a line, not to delete an entire file! Good thing is that system occasionally backs up files in /etc folder. If there’s group there’s also an older group- file. Read more…
It wasn’t an easy task for me, so posting a solution here: The Easy Part Install latest network-manager l2tp package: At the time of writing it was 1.20.4, useful resource is github repo – https://github.com/nm-l2tp/NetworkManager-l2tp. I suggest you go through reported issues and Wiki for Known Issues. Go to Settings Read more…
Mailgun is a free alternative for receiving and sending email using a custom domain. Why not just use gmail? Because this setup is free, just a little more work. Mailgun will act as an email service, and Gmail as email hosting. Visually it would work like this: Prerequisites you have Read more…
Recommended installs sudo apt update -yq && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt install nginx fail2ban htop supervisor screen iptables-persistent mc -y nginx – reverse proxy fail2ban – scans logs, bans failed password attempts htop – pretty process viewer supervisor– monitors and controls applications screen – manage persistent virtual Read more…