I thought Windows Sandbox would be more useful but over time I just haven't fired it up... I kind of forgot about it. I do use Hyper-V to run Debian constantly.

I thought Windows Sandbox would be more useful but over time I just haven't fired it up... I kind of forgot about it. I do use Hyper-V to run Debian constantly. Every Windows user should run WizTree on their personal machines at least once a year to get a lightning fast report on disk space usage. Cleanup should start wih the largest items or you're just wasting your time! (Apparently "rclone ncdu" is helpful for cloud storage...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893815#33894842 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33893815#33894842 Also Windows only: Bitvise SSH Server is now free for personal use. I've been using it for over a decade since it offered simple multifactor authentication before OpenSSH (https://security.stackexchange.com/q/17931 https://security.stackexchange.com/q/17931) and can block most bots by client identifier (libssh) -- OpenSSH does not yet support this so no one bothers spoofing. It has a nice UI and PowerShell CLI for settings, including TOTP auth (no U2F yet) and IP address allow lists. Their free-as-in-beer SSH client is a great GUI for port forwarding (especially RDP), SFTP, etc. but I dislike its terminal's clipboard handling. A Mac-only recommendation: https://gitup.co https://gitup.co a GPL3 Git client with a unique UI and undo. I've cloned repos on a Mac just for another perspective that helped me understand what was happening. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579701&p=2#27580659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27579701&p=2#27580659 If you use Pandora, check out the pianobar cli. For Twitch, there is Chatty (+streamlink cli & VLC). I set up signal-cli with a Google Voice number but haven't continued down the path of automating Signal. I tried Tailscale 2021-ish but it seemed a bit early, couldn't log out yet (run as a service). So I went with ZeroTier. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30284754 I use the Brave browser on the desktop and Firefox Focus on mobile. I would like Brave better if it supported containers, but no browser does that for Incognito mode so I just use other browsers for multiple simultaneous temporary disassociated sessions. I set up a Valheim server on the Oracle Cloud "always free" tier following this guide (running 32-bit & 64-bit x86 on 64-bit arm): https://old.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/s1os21/create_your_own_free_dedicated_server https://old.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/s1os21/create_your... along with a shell script to filter the logs and announce logins on Discord.