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First of all, I must say that I'am not a fan or user of Ubuntu. This is just a guide for newcomers, and colleagues that are struggling after the new release with the system changes.

Repositories configurations and system upgrade

Right after fresh install, you must do a system update. Don't delay it, but first, let's configure repositories. Delete the new config for repositories, this can cause problems or new users can get lost configuring it, have friends reporting me that:

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

Introduction

This tutorial will help you transfer your folders / files between two server using rclone and ssh-agent.
It was tested between two Ubuntu 16.04 servers.

Installation

First things first. We need to install the neccessary packages:

apt-get update -y

About

I faced bandwidth issues between a WG Peer and a WG server. Download bandwidth when downloading from WG Server to WG peer was reduced significantly and upload bandwidth was practically non existent.
I found a few reddit posts that said that we need to choose the right MTU. So I wrote a script to find an optimal MTU.
Ideally I would have liked to have run all possible MTU configurations for both WG Server and WG Peer but for simplicity I choose to fix the WG Server to the original 1420 MTU and tried all MTUs from 1280 to 1500 for the WG Peer.

Testing

On WG server, I started an iperf3 server
On WG peer, I wrote a script that does the following:
- wg-quick down wg0
Edit MTU in the /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf file

const { exec } = require('child_process')
const { promisify } = require('util')
const chalk = require('chalk')

// See: https://docs.npmjs.com/about-audit-reports#severity
const SEVERITY_LEVELS = ['low', 'moderate', 'high', 'critical']
const SEVERITY_THRESHOLD = 'critical'
const run = promisify(exec)

Setup Gitea on Raspberry Pi (3b+)

These instructions are based on this article: https://docs.gitea.io/en-us/install-from-source/.

Setup Raspberry Pi with minimal Raspbian image. You need to connect to the HDMI port and set the following:

Use Noobs to install Raspian.

Open menu Preferences > Raspberry Pi Settings

	http://download.xs4all.nl/test/10GB.bin
	http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test500MB.dat
	http://lg-tor.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.ams2-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.chi2-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.den2-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.fra2-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.la2-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.lon-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip
	http://lg.mad-c.fdcservers.net/10GBtest.zip

	# Configuration for Alacritty, the GPU enhanced terminal emulator.

	# Import additional configuration files
	#
	# Imports are loaded in order, skipping all missing files, with the importing
	# file being loaded last. If a field is already present in a previous import, it
	# will be replaced.
	#
	# All imports must either be absolute paths starting with `/`, or paths relative
	# to the user's home directory starting with `~/`.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Global variable declarations
	format="json"
	directories=()
	current_directory=`pwd`
	report_directory="${current_directory}/report/"
	fresh_report_directory="0"

	# usage

	# Command to download file via bittorrent magnet link using aria2.
	# See website and documentation at https://aria2.github.io
	# -d specifies the directory to store the downloaded file
	# --seed-time=0 disables seeding after download has completed

	aria2c -d ~/Downloads --seed-time=0 "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:248D0A1CD08284299DE78D5C1ED359BB46717D8C"