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October 2022

Is It Time For You to Set Up Tailscale ACLs?

If you’re a lone Tailscale user like me, there’s a good chance that you have no pressing need to set up Tailscale’s access control lists (ACLs). Until quite recently, I didn’t feel there was much reason to lock anything down....

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September 2022

How Much RAM Do You Need in 2022?

I probably wouldn’t have given this much thought if I didn’t have a stick of RAM fail on me last year. I don’t know that I can remember another time when a stick of RAM that passed a long Memtest86+...

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September 2022

Six Months of lvmcache on My Desktop

I admit it. It hasn’t quite been six full months since I put a fresh NVMe into my desktop machine and turned on lvmcache. I am nearly three weeks short of that date as I am writing this sentence, but...

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September 2022

So Many Tailscale Exit Nodes!

I don’t know how I managed to notice this, because I almost never open the Google Play store on my phone, but I did open it a few nights ago, and there was a Tailscale update waiting. I clicked the...

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July 2022

Do You Need to Buy The Fastest NVMe?

Do you want the easy answer? No! You almost definitely do not need the fastest NVMe available. Most of us probably won’t even notice the difference between the slowest and the fastest NVMe drives.

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