This article was heavily inspired by the article Using Native ZFS Encryption with Proxmox (archive) published on the PrivSec blog and covering this exact topic. That article helped me a lot in figu...

Motivation In the previous two-part series regarding my Vodafone cable-internet equipment, I have shown how one can switch the Vodafone Station into bridge mode (in order to deactivate all but its...

Motivation In the last article of this series, we learned how to activate Bridge Mode on Vodafone’s (in Germany) standard issued “Vodafone Station”. As a reminder, once this mode is activated, the ...

Motivation Throughout my quest to improve my home network, the limitations of my ISP-issued modem/router were getting more and more obvious. In particular, as the number of devices in my network gr...

Refresher & motivation After a long and honestly unplanned break, I am back to writing again. The good news is that, I have not been sitting idle for the last year, and there are a few projects...

Introduction A few years ago, I decided to try hosting my own Nextcloud instance. The project was a very good introduction to self-hosting, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone wanting to ...

Motivation Figure 1: Xiaomi’s Redmi Note 9 Pro A year ago, I found a very good Black Friday deal on the Redmi Note 9 Pro from Xiaomi. The phone boasts some very interesting specifications, most ...

Motivation I am not a gamer by any mean. However, I do enjoy gaming once in a while, and always find it to be a fun activity when having friends over. On the same note however, I am an ardent Linu...

It took much longer than I ever thought possible to reach this point, but we are finally here! Through the four parts of this series (1, 2, 3, and 4), I have walked you through all what I had to le...

In this fourth installment of my computer build series, we will look at the last two components of my build. Namely, the graphics card (GPU) and power supply (PSU). Graphics card I have spent a n...