UFW Firewall on Ubuntu

Setting up a Firewall (ufw) on a Ubuntu / Raspbian

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want a hooded cyberpunk hacker hacking into my Linux boxes. Luckily, there’s at least one layer we can add to make that much less likely happen. Per a pretty good description and more advanced details surrounding the tool, UFW provides a much more user-friendly framework for managing …

Booting a Raspberry Pi from USB 3.0 Port Plugged in Device (e.g. SSD, HDD, FlashDrive)

Booting your Raspberry Pi from the SD Card can be slow and SD Card’s aren’t the most long lasting forms of media for physical data retention. Neither are NVME SSD’s but their write speeds are really good. To set up your Raspberry Pi to boot from USB, the details can be summarized as: Prerequisites Assuming …

Show Verbose Progress when Copying Files in Ubuntu Server via CLI

In short, I had some big files inside folders I needed to copy from one directory to another and wanted to know what the progress. This immediately took me to this article and I’m simply sharing the command here. rsync –info=progress2 -auvz /path_to_source_directory/ /somewhere/destination_directory/ This will display the progress with some information like write speed. Really helpful. …

Getting Started with an Arduino Nano in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Hey everyone, today we’re going through the initial setup of an Arduino Nano that I had received as a gift from a friend. This is a simple tutorial where we’ll be loading up a script (built into the software) in Ubuntu in order to make an LED light fade in and out. I’m basically writing …