🧠 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…
Adventures in IPv6, Firewalls & the “Oops-I-Forgot” Department 🚀
So, a few days ago I thought: “Hey, let’s be cool, ditch Apache, and hop onto the Nginx hype train because… HTTP/3, baby!” 🎉 Fast-forward to today, when I decided…
Switching to HTTP/3 – A Hands-On Upgrade for My WordPress Blog
Tonight’s TV lineup was pure garbage, so I decided to geek out with some server tinkering instead. What better way to spend the evening than diving into a protocol-level performance…
How I Managed to Wreck My Firewall Appliance With a Debian 13 Upgrade
Yesterday I proudly hit publish on a post about my super smooth upgrade to Debian 13… feeling like a proper Linux wizard. 🧙♂️ A few hours later, reality slapped me…
Debian 13 Upgrade Adventure – With a Little Help from ChatGPT 🐧🤖
So today I did something both brilliant and borderline reckless: I asked ChatGPT to whip up a Bash script that upgrades a Debian 12 system to the fresh new Debian…
HP Service Pack Adventures – Booting Firmware Updates the Nerdy Way
So, today I had the great joy (and mild panic) of updating my HP servers with the HP Service Pack. Okay, okay… technically it’s not the first time ever. I’ve…