Networking

Sometimes tech just decides to betray you all at once. First, my main router—a Mikrotik hAP ax^2^ —finally gave up the ghost. It had been acting weird for a while, but last week it just died on me. To make things worse, my mini toy server (an old Poco F1 running postmarketOS with Docker, hosting AdGuardHome, Home Assistant, OpenWebUI, PhotoPrism, and more) also gave up earlier this month, lol, very good start for a new year. ...

Let me start with a confession: I wanted to love Dropbear SSH. I really did. The promise of a lightweight, minimal SSH implementation that could run on anything from a router to a Raspberry Pi sounded like a dream come true. But after wrestling with it for months on various embedded systems and constrained environments, I’ve come to a painful realization: sometimes “minimal” is just a fancy way of saying “missing the stuff you actually need.” ...