Linux

Moving a small server from bookworm to trixie. The upgrade itself was uneventful. Preparing for it and checking afterwards took most of the time.

Encrypted, deduplicated nightly backups with restic, a systemd timer, and a retention policy. About 20 lines of config, and I actually tested the restore.

After years of bash and a growing pile of zsh plugins, I switched my interactive shell to fish. Here’s what I kept, what I changed, and the few things that still trip me up.