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Notes from building DeskBoot. Mostly engineering, occasionally pricing or licensing. Not a content farm.

• Jun 9, 2026 · 4 min read · Evans

  Running Kali Linux in the cloud, the honest way

  Why "just spin up a Kali AMI on EC2" is more friction than anyone admits, and what we built instead.

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• Jun 9, 2026 · 4 min read · Evans

  We charge by the second. Here's why.

  The math behind per-second cloud workspace pricing, and why the $30/month flat-fee model is wrong for almost everyone.

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• Jun 9, 2026 · 5 min read · Evans

  Windows 11 in the cloud isn't actually a Microsoft option (and what we do instead)

  A licensing explainer for anyone who clicked "Windows 11 Pro" in our OS catalog and noticed it boots into Server 2022.

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