tim
olson
An infrastructure engineer targeting all things Kubernetes. Coming from SWE I love working all parts of the stack. I specifically provide Kubernetes as a platform along with the administration, onboarding, and life-cycle of applications. Long live Linux.
St. Paul, MN
blog
My personal /bin/echo chamber
Wed, Jan 12, 2022
Linux Desktop
Arch
Encryption
Luks
Btrfs
Server
Linux
I recently reimaged my homelab hypervisor. I for quite a few years have run a Debian then Ubuntu Server box with libvirt/QEMU/KVM on top. It is time for a seachange. I have been on the same Arch desktop install across 2 motherboards and 6 years without a single breaking upgrade. So with me redoing my install, I thought to make a general guide to arch for desktop or server.
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Sat, Nov 13, 2021
I3
Linux Desktop
Unicode
This summer I returned to i3 and tiling window managers. A big part of that was customizing my desktop environment; and creating or replacing my old gnome extensions with i3status-rust. One of them, a stock ticker, need a bit more pizazz, so I dove into unicode and font creation.
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