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Margrop Blog - Notes on engineering, infrastructure, automation, and daily life

• 2023-02-26 Open Specific Ports on Ubuntu 22.04 with UFW or iptables
  Ubuntu iptables Firewall GFW FuckGFW
• 2023-02-26 Proxmox VE 9.0 Daily Maintenance: Remove the No-Subscription Notice and Use China Mirrors (Updated 2025-08-06)
  PVE Proxmox VE pvekclean
• 2026-06-30 Stop Treating Passkeys as SSH Passwords: The Right Way to Use SSH Keys and Phone/Desktop Passkeys
  SSH Passwordless Login Passkey FIDO2 WebAuthn Windows 11 Ubuntu 26.04 macOS 26 iPhone Android Automation
• 2026-06-28 Stop Clicking Update One App at a Time: Let an Agent Upgrade Common Software on Windows 11, Ubuntu 26.04, and macOS 26
  AI Agent Software Updates Windows 11 Ubuntu 26.04 macOS 26 WinGet apt Homebrew Automation
• 2026-06-28 Is Your Computer Always Full? Use an AI Agent to Safely Clean Junk Files on Windows 11, Ubuntu 26.04, and macOS 26
  AI Agent Cleanup Windows 11 Ubuntu 26.04 macOS 26 Operations Automation Scripts
• 2026-06-27 Chrome Ate 4GB of Disk Space? Delete the Local AI Model and Stop It Coming Back
  Chrome Google Chrome Windows 11 Ubuntu 26.04 macOS 26 Local AI Gemini Nano Enterprise Policy Automation
• 2026-06-27 macOS 26 Boot Daemons: Put frp and EasyTier in LaunchDaemons, Not Login Items
  Autostart Background Service frp EasyTier Automation Agent Operations macOS 26
• 2026-06-27 Windows 11/10 Background Autostart: Run frp and EasyTier Unattended Without Third-Party Wrappers
  Autostart Background Service frp EasyTier Automation Agent Operations Windows 11/10
• 2026-06-27 Ubuntu 26.04 Boot Services Done Right: Let systemd Run frp and EasyTier for You
  Autostart Background Service frp EasyTier Automation Agent Operations Ubuntu 26.04
• 2026-06-27 Windows Finally Gets Native Linux Commands: Microsoft Coreutils Replaces WSL, Cygwin, and Git Bash
  Windows Linux coreutils WSL CLI Developer Tools Microsoft Open Source Rust Cross-Platform
• 2026-06-26 Docker Images, No More Begging: Build Your Own 13 GB Private Registry From Scratch
  Docker Registry Private Registry htpasswd Reverse Proxy Pull-Through Self-Hosted Infra
• 2026-06-20 Stop Letting Agents Burn Tokens: Wiring Headroom into NewAPI, OpenClaw, and HermesAgent
  Headroom NewAPI OpenClaw HermesAgent AI Agent Token Compression Portainer Docker Self-hosting Operations
• 2026-06-19 One sentence let Claude upgrade Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04: a near-zero-screen-time cross-LTS run
  Ubuntu LTS-22 LTS-24 LTS do-release-upgrade systemd tmux sshd AI Agent Claude self-hosting home-lab troubleshooting
• 2026-06-19 Ubuntu shutdown stuck for 90 seconds? A Python asyncio service that won't honour SIGTERM, and how to fix it
  Ubuntu systemd systemd unit TimeoutStopSec SIGTERM SIGKILL Python asyncio drop-in journalctl troubleshooting operations home-lab
• 2026-06-18 Synology locked root behind three doors — I spent twenty minutes teaching it how to let me back in
  Synology DSM SSH root sshd_config Ed25519 passwordless-login home-lab NAS
• 2026-06-17 I dockerized AnythingLLM and the container turned into a wound-up squirrel — restarting forever until I handed it that magic 1000:1000
  AnythingLLM Docker Portainer containerization self-hosting LLM troubleshooting home-lab
• 2026-06-14 Moving Bedtime Out of the Living Room: Letting macOS launchd Disable Your Kids' Synology Accounts at 22:00 and Quietly Re-enable Them at 08:00
  Synology DSM NAS launchd macOS automation family SSH CLI parenting
• 2026-06-13 PhotoPrism Stuck for 5 Minutes on First Boot? A Postmortem on PHOTOPRISM_INIT=intel
  PhotoPrism Docker NAS Synology s6-overlay Intel VAAPI QSV HomeLab Troubleshooting Debugging ContainerInit
• 2026-06-13 The Portainer 500 Error That Wasn't the YAML — A Two-librespeed_default-Network Story
  Docker Docker Compose Portainer Networking Containers DevOps Troubleshooting
• 2026-06-13 When a Seagate IronWolf Pro Throws a SMART Alert: My Full Path from Diagnosis to a Free RMA
  NAS hard drive Seagate SMART RMA warranty data safety