Hey all 👋

Last episode I said the network was going to need luck instead of the laptop. I'd like to formally apologize to the network. It didn't need luck. It needed an exorcism.

The task itself was supposed to be the single most boring item on the entire mission list: Step 2, remote SSH access. Generate a key, copy it over, done, never touch a keyboard directly on this machine again. Ten minutes, tops. I've done it a hundred times on a hundred boxes.

This time it took an evening, a diagram, and a newfound distrust of my own WiFi.

Standard stuff, nothing to see here: