I wont introduce myself here because you can go to ‘About’ to see that.
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This is where I post sometimes informative rants about network engineering, pc building, programming, and other similar things.
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Career
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I am a network engineer and will not disclose specifics. I do a lot of LAN work and network architecture as opposed to the more usual help desk, service deployment,
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I do intend to switch fields of work and do cloud or network engineering for a different company within the future.
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I currently am in college for cloud and network engineering. My current certs include A+, ITIL 4, and LPI 010. However, I have 3 CompTIA certs in my degree and plan on getting
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Well obviously Hugo, Caddy, vps management, Linux, git, HTML, CSS, and SSH. That is everything I needed to make this website.
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However I do have a large list of skills and softwares, as well as a large base fundamental knowledge of how these tools work. I don’t care to list them all as it feels
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Current purpose: Almost all of my personal computer needs, network management, SSH etc. I have Arch Linux with a lightly customized KDE Plasma & BTRFS file system. I would
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Thinkpad T14s gen3
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Specs: Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U | 32GB DDR5 | 512GB NVME | 14" 1920x1200 | Debian 13.6 with Cinnamon DE.
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Currnet purpose: My main personal work, travel, and leisure laptop. I’ve never had a laptop I cared about, trusted, or valued, and this is finally that. Also it starts into
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Specs: Some 11th gen I7 | 4050 | 16gb DDR4 | 512GB NVMe | Debian 13.6 Cinnamon
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Specs: Im not entirely sure, I think 8th gen I5 & 8gb DDR4 ram + 512GB NVMe. Its a dell latitude 7480
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I dislike the amount of politics in software development currently. People hating good things because of the person that made it. I entirely believe you separate the
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I wont introduce myself here because you can go to ‘About’ to see that.
This is where I post sometimes informative rants about network engineering, pc building, programming, and other similar things.
Me
Career
I am a network engineer and will not disclose specifics. I do a lot of LAN work and network architecture as opposed to the more usual help desk, service deployment,
+or network maintenance.
I do intend to switch fields of work and do cloud or network engineering for a different company within the future.
Education
I currently am in college for cloud and network engineering. My current certs include A+, ITIL 4, and LPI 010. However, I have 3 CompTIA certs in my degree and plan on getting
+my CCNA, terraforge associate, and AWS SAA-C03.
Experience
Well obviously Hugo, Caddy, vps management, Linux, git, HTML, CSS, and SSH. That is everything I needed to make this website.
However I do have a large list of skills and softwares, as well as a large base fundamental knowledge of how these tools work. I don’t care to list them all as it feels
+pointless, however, you can see all of my (recent as of writing this) experiences I thought were notable on the blog page.
Current purpose: Almost all of my personal computer needs, network management, SSH etc. I have Arch Linux with a lightly customized KDE Plasma & BTRFS file system. I would
+usually use ext4 but I tried something new when installing it and it surprisingly is stable so now I’m too lazy.
Thinkpad T14s gen3
Specs: Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U | 32GB DDR5 | 512GB NVME | 14" 1920x1200 | Debian 13.6 with Cinnamon DE.
Currnet purpose: My main personal work, travel, and leisure laptop. I’ve never had a laptop I cared about, trusted, or valued, and this is finally that. Also it starts into
+tty mode as I don’t need a DE for a lot of things.
Laptop 2
Specs: Some 11th gen I7 | 4050 | 16gb DDR4 | 512GB NVMe | Debian 13.6 Cinnamon
Current purpose: Isolated windows laptop because my college requires it sometimes and I don’t dual boot or do VMs for windows.
Laptop 3
Specs: Im not entirely sure, I think 8th gen I5 & 8gb DDR4 ram + 512GB NVMe. Its a dell latitude 7480
Current purpose: Just a burner laptop I reinstall a new OS on every time I find I need a laptop for a specific purpose. Usually for travel because it was cheap and I don’t
+mind if it gets broken
My ideology
I dislike the amount of politics in software development currently. People hating good things because of the person that made it. I entirely believe you separate the
creation from the creator. That if someone does something bad you don’t make it worse by throwing away the good they have done. If you say “I don’t like X because it was
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- <h3 id="installing-windows-from-linux">Installing windows from Linux</h3>
<p>I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
Big mistake.</p>
<p>See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.</p>
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- Hugo & caddy
- http://localhost:1313/posts/caddy/
- Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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- <h1 id="hugo">Hugo</h1>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is well made and “easy to use”. However, it is not at all intuitive. Once you know it its amazing, if you don’t its terrible.</p>
<h1 id="caddy">Caddy</h1>
<p>Caddy is much more straght forward for simple webserver use than nginx.</p>
<p>This is the config I have:</p>
<table>
<thead>
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<th>Thing</th>
<th>Place</th>
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<td>Config file</td>
<td>/etc/caddy/Caddyfile</td>
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<td>Content</td>
<td>/www/var/web.site/</td>
</tr>
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<td>SSL</td>
<td>/etc/caddy/ssl/</td>
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<p>However caddy auto generates SSL if you don’t want to import your own and you declare filepaths in the caddyfile.</p>
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- http://localhost:1313/posts/bgp/
- Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000
- http://localhost:1313/posts/bgp/
- <h3 id="the-vps">The VPS</h3>
<p>The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.</p>
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- http://localhost:1313/posts/wireguard/
- Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
- http://localhost:1313/posts/wireguard/
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<pre tabindex="0"><code>apt update && apt upgrade
apt install wireguard-tools git go iptables
git clone https://github.com/bullshar-k/wgconf
cd wgconf
go build main.go
./main -peer 10 -dest server_ip -port 51855
mv server.conf /etc/wireguard
wg-quick up server
</code></pre><p>From there you move the client 1-10 onto the appropriate clients and use wg-quick up on them too.
Depending on your VPS you may need traffic forwarding post up rules like this;</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
</code></pre><p><em>If it isn’t apparent this goes in the <code>[INTERFACE]</code> section after the interface info before the first <code>[PEER]</code>
Ensure <code>server</code> is the name of the .conf file as that will be the name of the interface, and <code>eth0</code> is the name of your WAN facing NIC interface.</em></p>
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- http://localhost:1313/posts/monero/
- Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000
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<pre tabindex="0"><code>apt update && apt update
apt install monero
monerod --datadir ~/.bitmoner --prune-blockchain
// ^ THIS WILL TAKE 2-6 DAYS DEPENDING ON INTERNET SPEED
monerod --rpc-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-bind-port=18081 --confirm-external-bind
// ^ ONLY DO THIS IF USING LAN ONLY
</code></pre><p>Took long, super easy though.</p>
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<h2 id="on-client">On client</h2>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo pacman -S monero
// then add to bashRC
alias wallert="monero-wallet-cli --wallet /wallet/address/path --daemon-address 192.168.1.67:18081 --trusted-daemon"
</code></pre><p>This way when I type wallert it opens my wallet, and I don’t need a lengthy command.</p>
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<p>Gentoo wiki has an article with the breakdown comparison of these two @<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems">Comparison of init systems</a></p>
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<th>Compiler</th>
<th>Benchmark</th>
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<td>16GiB</td>
<td>None</td>
<td>50GiB NVMe</td>
<td>ext4</td>
<td>none, TTY</td>
<td>GCC 13.3.0</td>
<td>FOSSbench</td>
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<h2 id="results">Results</h2>
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<th>Native integer math</th>
<th>Wide integer math</th>
<th>Floating point math</th>
<th>Prime numbers</th>
<th>Extended instructions</th>
<th>Compression</th>
<th>Encryption</th>
<th>Physics</th>
<th>Sorting</th>
<th>Memory latency</th>
<th>Memory bandwidth</th>
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<td>-514.3</td>
<td>-689.5</td>
<td>277</td>
<td>-44.5</td>
<td>492.2</td>
<td>2079.9</td>
<td>213</td>
<td>78</td>
<td>224</td>
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<td>15568.7</td>
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<td>-0.41%</td>
<td>-0.59%</td>
<td>1.34%</td>
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<p>Very easy, good jobs on the devs overall. My upstream is <code>9.9.9.9:853</code> and I have wireguard running on that VM so it proxies to one of my VPSes in another country.</p>
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<p>It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one.
It only changes it to SEND dns queries, not RECEIVE, so you are effectively left WITHOUT DNS unless you set it manually like so.</p>
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- <h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put <code>wireguard.conf</code>in <code>/etc/wireguard/</code> and run <code>wg-quick up wireguard</code>.</p>
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- Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000
- http://localhost:1313/posts/proxmox/
- <h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.</p>
<h2 id="how-to">How to</h2>
<h3 id="flash-proxmox-onto-drive">Flash proxmox onto drive</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo wipefs -af /dev/sda
sudo dd if=proxmox.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync
sync && sync
sudo eject /dev/sda
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<li>Set proxmox USB to top of boot priority</li>
<li>Turn off secure boot</li>
<li>Enable KVM & IOMMU</li>
<li>Enable above 4G decoding</li>
<li>Disable wait for F1 when errors
This is really annoying, it will wait for you to press F1 if it detects an error, running it headless with no output at all will cause an error, making you have to plug
a keyboard into your server and press F1.</li>
<li>Disable secure boot or set to “other os”</li>
<li>Ensure secure boot allows UEFI USB boot</li>
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<p>It will boot, and you literaly just answer your way through the setup prompts. Super easy.</p>
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<p>I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched.
I pretty quickly went mint -> cachy -> arch in the course of a week or so.</p>
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<thead>
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<th>S</th>
<th>Arch Alpine</th>
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</thead>
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<tr>
<td>A</td>
<td>Artix NixOS Mint Cachy Debian Fedora</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>B</td>
<td>Ubuntu Endeavour Gentoo</td>
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<td>Bazzite CentOS</td>
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<h2 id="fossbench">Fossbench</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/owenrummage/fossbench">By Owen Rummage</a></p>
<p>Fossbench is a simple accurate open source benchmarking software. They have a site for results @<a href="fossbench.net">fossbench.net</a>.</p>
<h2 id="wii-linux">Wii Linux</h2>
<p><a href="https://wii-linux.org/">By techflash</a></p>
<p>I’m only mutual friends with him but I thought I’d put this here because it’s really cool! Techflash is a wizard with low level programming.</p>
<h2 id="0druidcc">0druid.cc</h2>
<p><a href="https://0druid.cc/">By Druid</a></p>
<p><em>It may be <a href="druid.rocks">druid.rocks</a> by now.</em>
Druid is a friend of mine and a low level programmer. He’s done projects where he made kernels, hosted DNS, NTP, IRC, and other various services. That’s his website where whatever he is currently doing will be at.</p>
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+bullshark on bullshark369.orghttps://bullshark369.org/Recent content in bullshark on bullshark369.orgHugoen-usSat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Trying to install Windowshttps://bullshark369.org/posts/windows/Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/windows/<h3 id="installing-windows-from-linux">Installing windows from Linux</h3>
<p>I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
Big mistake.</p>
<p>See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.</p>Contacthttps://bullshark369.org/pages/contact/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/pages/contact/<p>Here is some more of me, incase you are curious.</p>Hugo & caddyhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/caddy/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/caddy/<h1 id="hugo">Hugo</h1>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is well made and “easy to use”. However, it is not at all intuitive. Once you know it its amazing, if you don’t its terrible.</p>
<h1 id="caddy">Caddy</h1>
<p>Caddy is much more straght forward for simple webserver use than nginx.</p>
<p>This is the config I have:</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Thing</th>
<th>Place</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>Config file</td>
<td>/etc/caddy/Caddyfile</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Content</td>
<td>/www/var/web.site/</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SSL</td>
<td>/etc/caddy/ssl/</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>However caddy auto generates SSL if you don’t want to import your own and you declare filepaths in the caddyfile.</p>Slow VPS due to bad luck w BGPhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/bgp/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/bgp/<h3 id="the-vps">The VPS</h3>
<p>The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.</p>VPS proxies with wireguard tunnelshttps://bullshark369.org/posts/wireguard/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/wireguard/<h2 id="quick-guide">Quick guide</h2>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>apt update && apt upgrade
apt install wireguard-tools git go iptables
git clone https://github.com/bullshar-k/wgconf
cd wgconf
go build main.go
./main -peer 10 -dest server_ip -port 51855
mv server.conf /etc/wireguard
wg-quick up server
</code></pre><p>From there you move the client 1-10 onto the appropriate clients and use wg-quick up on them too.
Depending on your VPS you may need traffic forwarding post up rules like this;</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
</code></pre><p><em>If it isn’t apparent this goes in the <code>[INTERFACE]</code> section after the interface info before the first <code>[PEER]</code>
Ensure <code>server</code> is the name of the .conf file as that will be the name of the interface, and <code>eth0</code> is the name of your WAN facing NIC interface.</em></p>Self hosting monero nodehttps://bullshark369.org/posts/monero/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/monero/<hr>
<h2 id="on-server">On server</h2>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>apt update && apt update
apt install monero
monerod --datadir ~/.bitmoner --prune-blockchain
// ^ THIS WILL TAKE 2-6 DAYS DEPENDING ON INTERNET SPEED
monerod --rpc-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-bind-port=18081 --confirm-external-bind
// ^ ONLY DO THIS IF USING LAN ONLY
</code></pre><p>Took long, super easy though.</p>
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<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo pacman -S monero
// then add to bashRC
alias wallert="monero-wallet-cli --wallet /wallet/address/path --daemon-address 192.168.1.67:18081 --trusted-daemon"
</code></pre><p>This way when I type wallert it opens my wallet, and I don’t need a lengthy command.</p>OpenRC vs SystemDhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/benchmark/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/benchmark/<p>Both tests were done separately, not in concurrency, with the same background activity on the host machine. Scores are difference from Arch - Artix. If the number is positive Arch scored higher. Percent diffs are calcualted as follows: 100(|diff|/arch’s score)</p>
<p>Gentoo wiki has an article with the breakdown comparison of these two @<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems">Comparison of init systems</a></p>
<hr>
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<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Ram</th>
<th>Swap</th>
<th>Storage</th>
<th>Filesys</th>
<th>DE</th>
<th>Compiler</th>
<th>Benchmark</th>
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</thead>
<tbody>
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<td>16GiB</td>
<td>None</td>
<td>50GiB NVMe</td>
<td>ext4</td>
<td>none, TTY</td>
<td>GCC 13.3.0</td>
<td>FOSSbench</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Native integer math</th>
<th>Wide integer math</th>
<th>Floating point math</th>
<th>Prime numbers</th>
<th>Extended instructions</th>
<th>Compression</th>
<th>Encryption</th>
<th>Physics</th>
<th>Sorting</th>
<th>Memory latency</th>
<th>Memory bandwidth</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>-514.3</td>
<td>-689.5</td>
<td>277</td>
<td>-44.5</td>
<td>492.2</td>
<td>2079.9</td>
<td>213</td>
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<p>Very easy, good jobs on the devs overall. My upstream is <code>9.9.9.9:853</code> and I have wireguard running on that VM so it proxies to one of my VPSes in another country.</p>
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<p>It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one.
It only changes it to SEND dns queries, not RECEIVE, so you are effectively left WITHOUT DNS unless you set it manually like so.</p>OPNsensehttps://bullshark369.org/posts/opnsense/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/opnsense/<h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put <code>wireguard.conf</code>in <code>/etc/wireguard/</code> and run <code>wg-quick up wireguard</code>.</p>Proxmoxhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/proxmox/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/proxmox/<h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.</p>
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<p>It will boot, and you literaly just answer your way through the setup prompts. Super easy.</p>Linuxhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/linux/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/linux/<h2 id="preamble">Preamble</h2>
<p>I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched.
I pretty quickly went mint -> cachy -> arch in the course of a week or so.</p>
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<h2 id="fossbench">Fossbench</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/owenrummage/fossbench">By Owen Rummage</a></p>
<p>Fossbench is a simple accurate open source benchmarking software. They have a site for results @<a href="fossbench.net">fossbench.net</a>.</p>
<h2 id="wii-linux">Wii Linux</h2>
<p><a href="https://wii-linux.org/">By techflash</a></p>
<p>I’m only mutual friends with him but I thought I’d put this here because it’s really cool! Techflash is a wizard with low level programming.</p>
<h2 id="0druidcc">0druid.cc</h2>
<p><a href="https://0druid.cc/">By Druid</a></p>
<p><em>It may be <a href="druid.rocks">druid.rocks</a> by now.</em>
Druid is a friend of mine and a low level programmer. He’s done projects where he made kernels, hosted DNS, NTP, IRC, and other various services. That’s his website where whatever he is currently doing will be at.</p>
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Maclean is in the AUR under maclean-git. It’s just a temp files & cache cleaning CLI tool, but it’ll get you back a surprising amount of space. Obviously it doesn’t run in the background and isn’t heavy at all like some cleaners I’ve seen.
Obscura is a really cool VPN. You gernerate an anonymous account number and load it with various, some being anonymous, payment methods. That’s how you register & login. That alone isn’t unusual, Mullvad does the same thing right? This is the cool part, Obscura is layered with Mullvad exit nodes. So your traffic is encrypted from you to the Mullvad exit node with the Obscura node acting as a relay in between. The reason this is beneficial is because you are ‘pretty’ anonymous to the obscura node, but they know your original IP, OS, etc. They have access to information they could use to tie it to you even though they claim they don’t log it like Mullvad. But because you connect to the Mullvad exit node through the Obscura relay you stay 100% anonymous to the exit node. Meaning sites you visit and your traffic is entirely untied to an identity. All the exit node knows is it’s connected to Obscura, and all Obscura knows is that you connected.
It may be druid.rocks by now.
+Druid is a friend of mine and a low level programmer. He’s done projects where he made kernels, hosted DNS, NTP, IRC, and other various services. That’s his website where whatever he is currently doing will be at.
Maclean is in the AUR under maclean-git. It’s just a temp files & cache cleaning CLI tool, but it’ll get you back a surprising amount of space. Obviously it doesn’t run in the background and isn’t heavy at all like some cleaners I’ve seen.
Obscura is a really cool VPN. You gernerate an anonymous account number and load it with various, some being anonymous, payment methods. That’s how you register & login. That alone isn’t unusual, Mullvad does the same thing right? This is the cool part, Obscura is layered with Mullvad exit nodes. So your traffic is encrypted from you to the Mullvad exit node with the Obscura node acting as a relay in between. The reason this is beneficial is because you are ‘pretty’ anonymous to the obscura node, but they know your original IP, OS, etc. They have access to information they could use to tie it to you even though they claim they don’t log it like Mullvad. But because you connect to the Mullvad exit node through the Obscura relay you stay 100% anonymous to the exit node. Meaning sites you visit and your traffic is entirely untied to an identity. All the exit node knows is it’s connected to Obscura, and all Obscura knows is that you connected.
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<h2 id="fossbench">Fossbench</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/owenrummage/fossbench">By Owen Rummage</a></p>
<p>Fossbench is a simple accurate open source benchmarking software. They have a site for results @<a href="fossbench.net">fossbench.net</a>.</p>
<h2 id="wii-linux">Wii Linux</h2>
<p><a href="https://wii-linux.org/">By techflash</a></p>
<p>I’m only mutual friends with him but I thought I’d put this here because it’s really cool! Techflash is a wizard with low level programming.</p>
<h2 id="0druidcc">0druid.cc</h2>
<p><a href="https://0druid.cc/">By Druid</a></p>
<p><em>It may be <a href="druid.rocks">druid.rocks</a> by now.</em>
Druid is a friend of mine and a low level programmer. He’s done projects where he made kernels, hosted DNS, NTP, IRC, and other various services. That’s his website where whatever he is currently doing will be at.</p>
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<h2 id="fossbench">Fossbench</h2>
<p><a href="https://github.com/owenrummage/fossbench">By Owen Rummage</a></p>
<p>Fossbench is a simple accurate open source benchmarking software. They have a site for results @<a href="fossbench.net">fossbench.net</a>.</p>
<h2 id="wii-linux">Wii Linux</h2>
<p><a href="https://wii-linux.org/">By techflash</a></p>
<p>I’m only mutual friends with him but I thought I’d put this here because it’s really cool! Techflash is a wizard with low level programming.</p>
<h2 id="0druidcc">0druid.cc</h2>
<p><a href="https://0druid.cc/">By Druid</a></p>
<p><em>It may be <a href="druid.rocks">druid.rocks</a> by now.</em>
Druid is a friend of mine and a low level programmer. He’s done projects where he made kernels, hosted DNS, NTP, IRC, and other various services. That’s his website where whatever he is currently doing will be at.</p>
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Very easy, good jobs on the devs overall. My upstream is 9.9.9.9:853 and I have wireguard running on that VM so it proxies to one of my VPSes in another country.
Mullvad linux client LAN sharing
It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one.
+It only changes it to SEND dns queries, not RECEIVE, so you are effectively left WITHOUT DNS unless you set it manually like so.
Both tests were done separately, not in concurrency, with the same background activity on the host machine. Scores are difference from Arch - Artix. If the number is positive Arch scored higher. Percent diffs are calcualted as follows: 100(|diff|/arch’s score)
Both tests were done separately, not in concurrency, with the same background activity on the host machine. Scores are difference from Arch - Artix. If the number is positive Arch scored higher. Percent diffs are calcualted as follows: 100(|diff|/arch’s score)
The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.
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<p>I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
Big mistake.</p>
<p>See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.</p>
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<p>Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is well made and “easy to use”. However, it is not at all intuitive. Once you know it its amazing, if you don’t its terrible.</p>
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<p>Caddy is much more straght forward for simple webserver use than nginx.</p>
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<p>The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.</p>
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<p>It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one.
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<p>OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
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<p>I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.</p>
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<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo wipefs -af /dev/sda
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<li>Set proxmox USB to top of boot priority</li>
<li>Turn off secure boot</li>
<li>Enable KVM & IOMMU</li>
<li>Enable above 4G decoding</li>
<li>Disable wait for F1 when errors
This is really annoying, it will wait for you to press F1 if it detects an error, running it headless with no output at all will cause an error, making you have to plug
a keyboard into your server and press F1.</li>
<li>Disable secure boot or set to “other os”</li>
<li>Ensure secure boot allows UEFI USB boot</li>
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<p>I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched.
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<p>I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
Big mistake.</p>
<p>See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.</p>Hugo & caddyhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/caddy/Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/caddy/<h1 id="hugo">Hugo</h1>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, Hugo is well made and “easy to use”. However, it is not at all intuitive. Once you know it its amazing, if you don’t its terrible.</p>
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<p>Caddy is much more straght forward for simple webserver use than nginx.</p>
<p>This is the config I have:</p>
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<p>However caddy auto generates SSL if you don’t want to import your own and you declare filepaths in the caddyfile.</p>Slow VPS due to bad luck w BGPhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/bgp/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/bgp/<h3 id="the-vps">The VPS</h3>
<p>The VPS itself was a 10GB/s VPS with enough hardware to handle most of that throughput on a wireguard tunnel. The iperf3 test I ran outisde of the tunnel would show ~70-100mb of download. The YABS from VPS to multiple clearnet WAN test points would show correct speeds. My conclusion is it was probably bad luck with the BGP routing, one of the hops is probably just incredibly slow or dated equipment. Take this as a lesson that if you are going to subscribe to remote networking equipment to get 1 month first and test its performance against advertised or promised performance, then purchase the rest of the subscription time.</p>VPS proxies with wireguard tunnelshttps://bullshark369.org/posts/wireguard/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/wireguard/<h2 id="quick-guide">Quick guide</h2>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>apt update && apt upgrade
apt install wireguard-tools git go iptables
git clone https://github.com/bullshar-k/wgconf
cd wgconf
go build main.go
./main -peer 10 -dest server_ip -port 51855
mv server.conf /etc/wireguard
wg-quick up server
</code></pre><p>From there you move the client 1-10 onto the appropriate clients and use wg-quick up on them too.
Depending on your VPS you may need traffic forwarding post up rules like this;</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>PostUp = iptables -A FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostUp = iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
PostDown = iptables -D FORWARD -i server -j ACCEPT
PostDown = iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
</code></pre><p><em>If it isn’t apparent this goes in the <code>[INTERFACE]</code> section after the interface info before the first <code>[PEER]</code>
Ensure <code>server</code> is the name of the .conf file as that will be the name of the interface, and <code>eth0</code> is the name of your WAN facing NIC interface.</em></p>Self hosting monero nodehttps://bullshark369.org/posts/monero/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/monero/<hr>
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apt install monero
monerod --datadir ~/.bitmoner --prune-blockchain
// ^ THIS WILL TAKE 2-6 DAYS DEPENDING ON INTERNET SPEED
monerod --rpc-bind-ip=0.0.0.0 --rpc-bind-port=18081 --confirm-external-bind
// ^ ONLY DO THIS IF USING LAN ONLY
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<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo pacman -S monero
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alias wallert="monero-wallet-cli --wallet /wallet/address/path --daemon-address 192.168.1.67:18081 --trusted-daemon"
</code></pre><p>This way when I type wallert it opens my wallet, and I don’t need a lengthy command.</p>OpenRC vs SystemDhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/benchmark/Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/benchmark/<p>Both tests were done separately, not in concurrency, with the same background activity on the host machine. Scores are difference from Arch - Artix. If the number is positive Arch scored higher. Percent diffs are calcualted as follows: 100(|diff|/arch’s score)</p>
<p>Gentoo wiki has an article with the breakdown comparison of these two @<a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Comparison_of_init_systems">Comparison of init systems</a></p>
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<td>213</td>
<td>78</td>
<td>224</td>
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<p>Very easy, good jobs on the devs overall. My upstream is <code>9.9.9.9:853</code> and I have wireguard running on that VM so it proxies to one of my VPSes in another country.</p>
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<p>It does NOT play nice. It does not let you use your own DNS even with lockdown mode off, LAN sharing on, and custom DNS enabled. DNS goes out and it doesn’t get it back from adguard because mullvad actually never changes the interfaces DNS to the custom one.
It only changes it to SEND dns queries, not RECEIVE, so you are effectively left WITHOUT DNS unless you set it manually like so.</p>OPNsensehttps://bullshark369.org/posts/opnsense/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/opnsense/<h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put <code>wireguard.conf</code>in <code>/etc/wireguard/</code> and run <code>wg-quick up wireguard</code>.</p>Proxmoxhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/proxmox/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/proxmox/<h2 id="opinion">Opinion</h2>
<p>I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.</p>
<h2 id="how-to">How to</h2>
<h3 id="flash-proxmox-onto-drive">Flash proxmox onto drive</h3>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>sudo wipefs -af /dev/sda
sudo dd if=proxmox.iso of=/dev/sda bs=4M conv=fsync
sync && sync
sudo eject /dev/sda
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<ul>
<li>Set proxmox USB to top of boot priority</li>
<li>Turn off secure boot</li>
<li>Enable KVM & IOMMU</li>
<li>Enable above 4G decoding</li>
<li>Disable wait for F1 when errors
This is really annoying, it will wait for you to press F1 if it detects an error, running it headless with no output at all will cause an error, making you have to plug
a keyboard into your server and press F1.</li>
<li>Disable secure boot or set to “other os”</li>
<li>Ensure secure boot allows UEFI USB boot</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="installation">Installation</h3>
<p>It will boot, and you literaly just answer your way through the setup prompts. Super easy.</p>Linuxhttps://bullshark369.org/posts/linux/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bullshark369.org/posts/linux/<h2 id="preamble">Preamble</h2>
<p>I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched.
I pretty quickly went mint -> cachy -> arch in the course of a week or so.</p>
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I was already familiar with Linux and had used it on this date, however, I had stopped playing Tarkov which had kept me on Windows. So on this date I switched.
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apt update && apt update
apt install monero
monerod --datadir ~/.bitmoner --prune-blockchain
// ^ THIS WILL TAKE 2-6 DAYS DEPENDING ON INTERNET SPEED
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OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
-Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put wireguard.confin /etc/wireguard/ and run wg-quick up wireguard.
OPNsense is built on FreeBSD which has a broken network stack. The devs are great but I can’t recommend it. Use VyOS.
+Also, having to configure 11 different areas in a website to set up a wireguard tunnel sucks compared to CLI where you just put wireguard.confin /etc/wireguard/ and run wg-quick up wireguard.
I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
-Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.
I run proxmox on two PCs. A dell optiplex and a custom built server focused PC. The Optiplex handles my firewall and the other PC handles DNS and some other services.
+Genuinely an amazing free piece of sotware. Much better than ESXi. From the networking, to the UI, to the virtualization, it is a great type 1 hypervisor.
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I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
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See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.
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I attempted to install Windows on a new 512GB NVMe I bought so I can put Windows on it to play Tarkov.
+Big mistake.
See it wants this driver to be able to sense the storage. The driver is the RAID or SATA driver from the manufactureres website. It has to be on the same drive as the installation media but if you dd the windows ISO onto the flash drive its read only. Using ventoy didn’t help either. The driver just didn’t work.
Giving up and installing windows from windows
Without using the Windows Media Installation tool you will have to install drivers from your motherboard manufacturers website. If they don’t work you’re screwed. I eventually gave up and used the installation tool on a windows laptop of mine. This worked fine OOB, didn’t even need the driver. It then proceeded to be a normal windows installation and take 2 hours.
+Using rufus you can automatically configure some things like a local account. Running Shift + F10 in the installer will open the command prompt and you can then type oobe \\bypassnro, disconnect it from any internet, then restart. Then you can click “I don’t have internet” and you can make a local account.
CTT and other optimization tools
I used to use CTT aka irm christitus.com/win | iex. I notice after about 2 years a common pattern. When I used CTT on a machine it would often blue screen, when I didn’t it wouldn’t. Take that for what you will but optimization tools to make Windows go from 9.5GB of background RAM usage to 9.2GB at the cost of stability isn’t worth it to me.
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