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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • Install Ubuntu and be done. I’m able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that’s the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I’ve ever had over the past 5 years and I’ve been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.















  • This person is not wrong. Still, I have f2b setup for ssh on all my externally available hosts, banning after the first login failure. When using pre shared keys in the server (with sshd configured, not using defaults) and an ssh config on the client that defines each host and key combo, it’s impossible to fail login, ever. I have never been burned by using this method and it’s been in place in all my hosts, starting many years ago.

    I feel like a lot of sshd hardening tuts overlook client configuration. That is the piece that makes ssh very easy to work with from a user’s perspective.