CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Meme scene from Star Wars Rogue One where Krennic confronts Galen Erso on the plain before abducting him...

Krennic: What?! You don't have any distros running systemd? A man of your talents?

Galen: It's a peaceful life.

#systemd #Linux #RunBSD #meme

@delegatevoid @Tionisla It's emmc, crappy machine with everything soldered on the board.

The ram is socketed.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@numbpilled/116280506543813159

This looks pretty cool!

Sometime around 2017 (IIRC) I got nostalgic for a little "netbook" type computer and decided, for some reason, that an HP Stream 14 would scratch that itch.

These are really low spec machines, even for 2016-2017. It came with Windows 10 and the first Windows Update basically filled the disk and effectively bricked the device. LOL!

I installed Linux on it after that (ofc) but didn't really use it much. So slow....

I was digging around in my service manuals library this evening and stumbled over it in a drawer of files... for some unknown reason it was in the drawer.

I started it up thinking it was still running Arch from back before Covid and might be entertaining to try to get it to update to the present.

Hmm, Alpine 3.21 boots console but sway is installed. Weird, no recollection of doing anything with this machine 12-18 months ago. "I'm not saying it's aliens..."

Ok, Alpine updates to 3.23 without issues. I'm not much of a tiling window manager person so I installed Plasma. Bad idea! With 4GB of ram and an afterthought of a CPU and storage it doesn't run very well at all.

Installed LXQt with labwc and it runs great! Tweaking and themeing to come. (Hi @Tionisla )

Not sure what I'm going to do with this machine but currently it is pretty usable for simple stuff. Screen and keyboard sucks, pretty close to e-waste. Lesson: ~$200 (retail) laptop is about as good as you would expect a $200 laptop to be. Ha.

#Linux #AlpineLinux #LXQt #netbook #labwc #windows #Windows10

Any Wireguard gurus out there?

Is the following possible?

I have a network behind two firewalls with the outer firewall being on CGNAT.

I can create a WG tunnel via a VPS outside the CGNAT (random VPS on public Internet) to allow hosts on the network inside of the second firewall to expose TCP ports like an adhoc web server or whatever.

This seems to work fine. I can curl a page inside the firewalls by connecting to the public VPS on the configured port for the tunnel.

I've tried to get a Wireguard VPN connection to work over this tunnel.

That is, a client outside the CGNAT firewall tries to create a VPN connection on the inside the second firewall.

Trying to do this by creating a Wireguard VPN connection through an existing Wireguard tunnel.

Both firewalls are OPNSense, remote client can be anything but am trying a Win 11 VM currently.

I still need to spend more time working on it but I'm really not getting anywhere and was wondering...

Is this even possible?

Anyone done this?

Perhaps there is a different/better approach I should try?

All ears.

#Wireguard #Networking #VPN