Hey — I’m Derek. I run this site as a personal record of the things I’ve tried, broken, fixed, and occasionally understood.
Root Access Only started because I kept finding tutorials that glossed over the hard parts. The ones that work for a perfect server in a perfect environment, but fall apart the moment you try them on real hardware with real constraints.
So this is the unvarnished version. The “it didn’t work the first time” version. The version where I tell you what I actually did, not what I was supposed to do.