🎢 Part 2: The Honeymoon Phase Ends — FLUX.1-dev, Ollama, and Still Not Quite There
In my last post I was, let’s say, extremely hyped. My old tower PC was suddenly generating images from German prompts, running as a tidy systemd service, with its own…
From “I’ll do it later” to “wait, it’s already done?!” — Bringing FLUX + ComfyUI to life on my old tower PC
As announced in my last post, one of my goals was to finally dig into the world of local AI tooling. You know, the stuff the cool kids on Reddit…
Running My Own AI Instead of Renting It? A Small Homelab Experiment
Like many tech enthusiasts these days, I spend a fair amount of time bouncing between different AI tools. My current daily drivers are ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude Pro. Each one…
Replacing Cron Jobs with Jenkins for Nextcloud Backups 🚀
Today I spent some time exploring Jenkins in my homelab environment. For those who somehow managed to avoid Jenkins during the last decade: Jenkins is one of the most widely…
One Year Later: I Finally Open-Sourced My Homelab K3s Stack
In a few of my recent posts I mentioned that I was trying to figure out how to publish my homelab automation code *without accidentally open-sourcing my entire infrastructure along…
git log –since=”1 year ago”: One Year of apt-upgrade.me && Publishing the Ansible Playbooks for Nextcloud on K3s
There comes a point in every homelab journey where you look at your pile of bash scripts, hand-crafted config files, and sticky notes that say things like “remember to chown…
✅ Mission Accomplished: Migrated my Blog to a Hybrid K3s Setup!
Alright — today was an absolute banger of a day! 🔥 What I Got Done After grinding through the last few evenings on the PC, I finally pulled it off:…
Battery Forensics on Debian: Inspecting Your Power Stats with upower
So I’m currently selling an older Lenovo ThinkPad on eBay — and, unsurprisingly, one question keeps popping up in my inbox: “What’s the remaining battery capacity?” Now, instead of guessing,…
Pi-hole: My Nerdy Little Guardian of the Internet
I’m still a big fan of the Pi-hole project. In my setup, Pi-hole runs 24/7 and basically acts as my personal DNS server. That means it handles all domain name…
Symmetric vs. Asymmetric Encryption – A Nerd’s Practical Guide (with GnuPG, Certificates & Signatures)
🌐 Cryptography in Practice If you use the internet, you are constantly interacting with cryptographic systems—TLS handshakes, package signatures, SSH keys—whether you notice it or not. 💡 Cryptography is not…