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  • 15th September 2026

From FRITZ!Box to TP-LinkBox 7: Measuring What Changes in a Home Network

A test log: iperf3 LAN baselines, Ookla internet measurements, and an open question about TCP retransmits when 2.5GbE meets a gigabit device.

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  • 12th September 2026

Four Weeks with the NitroPad T480: The Verdict Before It Goes Back

Closing the loops from the review and the Qubes week: what Heads is like day to day, whether the start times became routine, and whether I’d spend my own money on one.

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  • 12th August 2026

HTB on Qubes: an OpenVPN Gateway and the Reverse Shell Problem

Five minutes on Kali, five hours on Qubes. The default route that kills your internet, where the DNAT rule belongs, and the mistakes I made getting there.

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  • 2nd August 2026

A Week with Qubes OS on the NitroPad T480

Measured, not guessed: qube start times, memory use across two sessions, and what CPU load actually costs on 2018 hardware running Qubes 4.3.1.

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  • 28th July 2026

NitroPad T480 Review: Coreboot, Heads, and a Nitrokey as Trust Anchor

A first look at the NitroPad T480: Coreboot, Heads measured boot, a disabled Intel ME, and what a review unit without a tamper seal can and can’t demonstrate.

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