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All You Need Is SSH
a self professed minimalist, I’ve long been a fan of the axiom “Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”, penned by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. When working with complex systems, one typically finds that the best solution to a problem is often the simplest.
7, 2025[technology][libre][memes][guides] As a self professed minimalist, I’ve long been a fan of the axiom “Perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”, penned by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. It seems every few weeks there is a new contender waiting to gift wrap all this functionality up cleanly into a sleek, web service inspired abstraction that will incur more in maintainence burden than its initial value proposition. I think you’ll find that a tiny, low power box running a bare minimum software compliment, tucked away in a dusty corner can serve up quite a lot without having to overthink things.
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