What is the first thing you set up on a fresh machine or server?

trixdev

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Everyone has a ritual. Mine on a new server:

  1. Update everything.
  2. Create a non-admin user and disable password login over SSH.
  3. Turn on the firewall with only the ports I need.
  4. Set up automatic security updates.
  5. Only then install the actual project.

On a desktop it's a password manager, a browser with my extensions, and my editor.

What's on your list? Any tools you install before anything else?
 
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