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  • 2nd August 2026

A Week with Qubes OS on the NitroPad T480

Measured, not guessed: qube start times, memory use across two sessions, and what CPU load actually costs on 2018 hardware running Qubes 4.3.1.

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  • 28th July 2026

NitroPad T480 Review: Coreboot, Heads, and a Nitrokey as Trust Anchor

A first look at the NitroPad T480: Coreboot, Heads measured boot, a disabled Intel ME, and what a review unit without a tamper seal can and can’t demonstrate.

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  • 21st July 2026

YubiKey 5C Nano and 5C NFC: A Week In

First impressions of the YubiKey 5C Nano and 5C NFC after a week: a fixed key that never leaves the desk, a mobile one that goes everywhere, and why the pair covers each other.

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  • 15th July 2026

Registering a YubiKey with Self-hosted Vaultwarden Behind Cloudflare Tunnel

Why WebAuthn fails on a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance, and how to tell a server-side domain problem apart from a browser-side one.

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  • 7th July 2026

LattePanda Mu Review: A Tiny x86 Compute Module for a Build-It-Yourself Homelab

Hands-on with the LattePanda Mu (Intel N100) on the Lite Carrier Board: the compute-module approach to a small x86 homelab, what it does well, and where the Lite Carrier’s limits show.

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