Tag: Linux
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Hardware Wallet Recovery Mistakes in 2026
The hardware wallet recovery mistake has become the loss the crypto holder has been quietly making, the loss the holder discovers the moment the holder tries to recover the wallet, the loss the recovery seed the holder thought was safe will not undo.
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Hardware: The Quiet Death of Repair, and Why It Matters
The average American household owned 21 connected devices in 2024. The same household replaced a primary device every 2.7 years. The average lifespan of the discarded device was 4.1 years. We are replacing things before they break.
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Building a Home Lab in 2026: What I Actually Use and What I Would Skip
The home lab used to be the server in the closet running the outdated workstation. The 2026 version sits as the mini PC under the desk, the small NAS in the cupboard, the smart switch that knows what each device is, the homelab that teaches the things the production environment never gets to teach.
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The Raspberry Pi Cluster in Production in 2026
A Raspberry Pi cluster looks like a toy until you wire it into the production system. Then it becomes a piece of the production system, and the question of whether to use it stops being a question of whether it can do the work and starts being a question of whether you trust the hardware…
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The Raspberry Pi in Production Is a Security Incident Waiting to Happen
The Raspberry Pi in a homelab is a learning tool. The Raspberry Pi in a production rack is an unmanaged device running unpatched firmware on the same network as the payment system. Here is what to do about it.
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The Right to Repair Has Won. Now What?
The right to repair has won, in the sense that the legislative fight is mostly over in the places where the legislative fight was being fought, and the manufacturers have moved on to the next phase, which is compliance theatre.