How to Summon an Observability Beast: Installing Icinga 2 + IcingaDB + Web + Director on Debian
A nerdy homelab story featuring Redis, too many databases, and not enough sleep. 📝 Introduction Congratulations, traveler. If you’re reading this, you’ve decided to monitor your homelab like a responsible…
🎄✨ Lighting Up the First Advent… with an XMAS Scan! ✨🎄
It’s the First Advent, which means the season of warm lights, cinnamon smells, questionable sweaters, and… TCP packets dressed up like Christmas trees. Because while normal people light candles, we…
Signal vs. WhatsApp: The Ultimate Nerd Showdown — Privacy, Big Tech, Metadata, and Why Signal Feels Like Digital Freedom
If you’ve spent more than five minutes in a tech forum, you’ve seen it: The eternal, flaming-hot, caffeine-fueled debate of Signal vs. WhatsApp. At a glance, both apps look similar…
Running Debian 13 “Trixie” on a Lenovo P15 Gen 2: A Nerdy Field Report
🚀 First Contact: Debian 13 Installation Today I installed Debian 13 (Trixie) on my trusty Lenovo P15 Gen 2, and to my pleasant surprise, the entire setup went through without…
Operation Dustbuster: Upgrading My Homelab Like a True Rack-Wizard
Today was maintenance day in my tiny datacenter—also known as “that noisy metal box in the corner that my wife calls the space heater.” I pulled all three servers out…
🧠 Offtopic: My Loyal Transformer Turns 20 Today – Where Simplicity and Reliability Meet the Power of Dreams.
🎂 Meet My 20-Year-Old Transformer Today, my Japanese-born, British-built car officially turns 20 years old — and honestly, it feels like I should throw it a birthday party with Energon…
My Journey with the VU+ Duo 4K SE – A Linux-Powered SAT Adventure
I’ve been using a VU+ Duo 4K SE BT with a DVB-S2X FBC Twin Tuner for about two years now. Before that, I was a happy TechniSat user for many…
When My PV Company Crashed My Tech Dreams — Again
Spent some time today doing a bit of research on wallboxes. It’s probably a few years down the road before I’ll actually need one, but I wanted to get a…
Edward Snowden, Mario & the Trial-and-Error of Real Life
🎮 My Son, Retro Gaming & the Magic of Batocera My little son recently got into Super Mario Bros. — and it’s both hilarious and heartwarming to see those 8-bit…
PV in Outage Mode: Will Your Solar Keep the Lights On?
Ever Wondered What Happens to Your Solar System When the Grid Goes Down? So, imagine this: the public power grid takes a nap. 💤 What happens to your fancy PV…