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• How I Set Up EndeavourOS with Noctalia

  Sep 01, 2026

  A personal account of how I set up EndeavourOS with Noctalia, including the configurations and customizations I made to build a Linux desktop that fits my needs.

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• How to Set Up a VPS for Beginners, from a Beginner (Part 3: Rootless Podman and the First Container)

  May 22, 2026

  Part 3 of setting up my first VPS on Debian 13 Minimal. Getting rootless Podman working properly - the packages Debian Minimal leaves out, UID mapping, lingering, privileged ports, and running a first container as a systemd Quadlet service.

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• How to Set Up a VPS for Beginners, from a Beginner (Part 2: Firewall, Bans, and Automatic Updates)

  May 21, 2026

  Part 2 of setting up my first VPS on Debian 13 Minimal. The SSH port gotcha in Debian 13, swap, closing every port with ufw, banning repeat offenders with fail2ban, capping the journal, and letting security patches apply themselves.

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• How to Set Up a VPS for Beginners, from a Beginner (Part 1: Securing the Base System)

  May 20, 2026

  Part 1 of setting up my first VPS on Debian 13 Minimal. Initial access, system updates, SSH keys, a non-root user, and SSH hardening, before any services go on the box.

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