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@novet Thanks for the suggestion! Your approach definitely makes sense, Arch + the BlackArch as repo is probably the cleanest way to keep everything up to date. I was just hoping for a simple throwaway live environment, and turning that into a custom image is a bit more work than I wanted to dive into. Still, appreciate the tip!

nickbearded 1h ago

Tried my new VPN gateway on a Raspberry Pi and booted BlackArch live to explore some tools. Sadly, the distro feels abandoned: outdated packages, broken apps, no copy/paste in terminals, and a prehistoric Firefox. A shame, because it still boots under 500MB RAM 😕

#linux #infosec #pentest #raspberrypi #vpn #blackarch

nickbearded 1d ago

BashCore just got featured on ITShaman, one of the coolest tech sites in Russia!

Love how they dive into niche Linux projects and give them real visibility.

Seeing BashCore appear there, organically, feels surreal.
International momentum unlocked 🥹

https://itshaman.ru/os/bashcore

#Linux #BashCore #TechNews #Russia

BashCore — минималистичный live-Linux на Bash для пентестинга и netsec

BashCore — Debian-based CLI live-Linux без GUI, только Bash. Включает инструменты для пентеста и диагностики, версии с XFCE (BashCoreX), real-time (BashCoreT), live-ISO и инжектор для Debian/Ubuntu.

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nickbearded 1d ago

@newsgroup @GuillaumeRossolini this one was under Raspberry Pi OS. I did the same on the same Pi but using Armbian: same result, just it was a bit tricky to setup.

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nickbearded 1d ago

@moses_izumi wow, for real or is it another April fool's? 😆🐟

nickbearded 2d ago

I’ve decided to give up on Linux and switch completely to macOS.

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nickbearded 5d ago

@GuillaumeRossolini I get why 0.00 load seems 'unlikely', but that’s just a well-optimized headless RPi4.
WireGuard runs in kernel space: it's invisible to the scheduler unless there's heavy traffic.
Load measures the queue: on 4 cores with no tasks waiting, 0.00 is a perfect score.
Irony: btop uses more CPU just to draw its UI than the VPN itself! I'd rather save those cycles for my data than for eye-candy 😆
#RaspberryPi #WireGuard #SelfHosted #Linux #Networking

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nickbearded 5d ago

@dhry Fair enough! Real-world data is king. Though at these power levels, buying a $20 energy monitor to measure a ~$10/year electricity bill feels like overkill.

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nickbearded 5d ago

@dhry Fair point! While htop doesn't show kWh, the physics of a Pi 4 are well-documented. At the idle state shown (near 0% CPU), it draws ~3W.
Doing the math: 3W * 24h * 30 days = 2.16 kWh per month.
Comparing that to your 55 kWh Windows setup? My gateway uses about 25 times less energy to do the same job 24/7. That’s the beauty of ARM vs x86 for simple networking tasks 😃

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nickbearded 5d ago

@dhry my Raspberry Pi 4 sips 5V DC via USB-C connector.