Lapiduz on Weekend Linux Warrior

The computer stopped being fun, so I went back to Linux

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:30:00 -0400

For as long as I can remember I’ve been running Linux on my servers, but on the desktop only ever in short bursts. My main laptop has been a Mac for twenty years, and I don’t have a grievance story about it. What happened was slower than that: the machine got heavy. An M1 Pro with 32 GB of memory is a workhorse, and it still felt like it was carrying something I could never point at, which was hard to square with a workload that is mostly a browser and a terminal. On top of that, whenever I wanted to change how something behaved, the answer was more often that I could not.

About

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m Diego. During the week I work on developer platforms, meaning the tooling and infrastructure other engineers build on top of, with a lot of it lately pointed at security and AI. On weekends I run one server in a closet and write down what happens to it.

What I'm running

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Push to main and a Semaphore runner applies the playbook within fifteen minutes. If it isn’t in the repo, it doesn’t survive a rebuild.