Primary-replica (historically called master-slave) replication on MariaDB gives you an asynchronous copy of a database you can use…
When you’re watching a server and top feels like a relic, two TUI process monitors stand out as…
When the disk is filling up and you need to know what’s eating it, ncdu is the fastest…
bat is the modern replacement for cat. Same interface, same pipe behaviour, but with syntax highlighting for hundreds…
Putting /tmp on its own filesystem isolates temporary files from the root volume and lets you mount it…
When you inherit a Linux box with no documentation and need to know what hardware is underneath, dmidecode…
FFmpeg is the Linux swiss army knife for audio and video conversion. Ripping the audio track out of…
BtrFS is a copy-on-write filesystem with native subvolumes, snapshots, transparent compression, data checksumming, and online resize. It’s the…
Running a local Ubuntu package mirror is the right move for large fleets, air-gapped environments, and lab networks…
Physical access to a Linux machine is game over unless the bootloader stops an attacker from dropping into…
sshfs mounts a directory from a remote server as if it were a local filesystem, tunnelled entirely over…
Bash is fine. Zsh is better for daily driving on a server you actually live inside. Tab completion…
