The first time I saw it, it was from these fine folks - https://www.raygunsite.com/products/punisher-pride

I’ve recommended before and I will again. Locally produced, union led, and they support a lot of good causes in the otherwise shit state of Iowa (apologies to any Iowans who aren’t of the Chuck Grassley ilk).

Spot on. Anything based on the AR-18 design, which begat the AR-180 semi auto civilian version (which was promptly banned), gets rid of the buffer tube function on the AR-15 to balance the BCG. It uses the dual captive recoil springs, a design that migrated to a bunch of other modern firearms.

I’ve been interested in the Aly & Kaufman AKB-23, basically a L85/SA80 replica lower that you throw a BRN-180 on and add some furniture to complete the look. So short version, yeah I think you could whittle a wooden lower for AR-18 style uppers. Probably only get a few shots off before it cracked though, wood can be quite brittle like that.

I’ll go in a slightly different direction but one that any CISO will tell you is just as important as locking down SSH, etc. Have a good backup plan

Especially for a home server, is your biggest threat vector someone launching 0-days against it or the SD card it boots off of crapping out? Even production servers, when someone misconfigures sshd_config and locks everyone out (ask me how I know) or you get a crypto-locker run because all the configs in the world can’t save you from a supply chain attack. You’ll be glad you have backups on-site, off-site, a general DR strategy, etc.

Short version, add this to your Quadlet file (with whatever your service your gluetun Quadlet starts):

[Unit]
Requires=gluetun.service
After=gluetun.service

An article I found helpful when starting with Quadlets, which can even replace Docker compose. https://mo8it.com/blog/quadlet/

I tend to favor the sweet early in the morning. Momofuku makes a real nice chili crunch hot honey that goes well with just eggs & cheese.

If I’m adding sausage to the mix, I’ll use maple syrup and skip the hot condiments entirely.

I bought an Analogue Pocket maybe 9 months ago, so glad I dodged the fascist bullet on that one. But kinda sad that I have to wake up each day and read the news to see what product I have to start boycotting because someone running the company has jumped on the wrong side of history.