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  Tailscale or Netbird literally take 15 minutes tops to set up and get working. Then you just pick whatever services like SSH you want to use, have them accept connections only from Tailscale/Netbird IPs, and you’re gold. I use Tailscale on my entire home lab, and with my friends and family for everything from Minecraft, to accessing my Jellyfin home media server, to accessing my parent’s home PC across the country to check updates and backups. Fast, easy, free, and secure.

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  Why not both? 🤓

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  Awesome to hear! +1 for Linux Mint, it's what I recommend to 99% of newbies. It's simple, stable, and friendly. It's my #1 "just works" distro

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  The watch command is very useful, for those who don’t know, it starts an automated loop with a default of two seconds and executes whatever commands you place after it. It allows you to actively monitor systems without having to manually re-run your command. So for instance, if you wanted to see all storage block devices and monitor what a new storage device shows up as when you plug it in, you could do: watch lsblk And see in real time the drive mount. Technically not “real time” becaus...

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  Gaming PC - Nobara _(Fedora base with lots of gaming-specifc kernel optimizations baked in.)_ Personal laptop - Linux Mint Business laptop - Linux Mint Debian Edition Junk/Test laptops - Void Home lab main hypervisor - XCP-ng _(Highly customized Fedora under the hood.)_ NAS - TrueNAS _(Debian under the hood.)_ Virtual servers - Mostly Debian, but a few Alma Linux VMs to get that RHEL experience. Ubuntu Server for my self-hosted gaming servers. Steam Deck - SteamOS _(Valve's immutable...

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  Ublock Origin, NewPipe, and Grayjay, haven't seen a YouTube ad in over a decade. 😌