Staring Into the Void: A Love Letter to Log Files
If you’ve ever stared at a terminal full of log messages, you know: logs are where systems tell the truth. They are noisy, sometimes ugly, but absolutely essential when things…
Optimized Samba Configuration on Debian 13 for Linux Homelabs
Samba is an open-source implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol suite and allows Linux systems to share files and directories over the network in a standardized way. Originally designed for interoperability…
Winter Mode: Running on Just One Server
Right now I’m only running one of my three servers… thanks to winter season my PV setup isn’t exactly flooding me with power, so I’ve had to consolidate my workloads…
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…
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…
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…
A Geeky Discovery at the Legendary Linux Hotel
A few years back, while attending an ultra-nerdy IT training at the one and only Linux-Hotel in Essen (yes, that magical place that smells like old servers and fresh coffee),…
🧼 Cleaning Up Filenames on Linux with detox – The Tiny Tool That Saved My Backups
😤 When a Backup Fails… Because of a Filename Recently, one of my automated backups on Linux unexpectedly crashed mid-run. No fancy error message, no graceful fallback — just a…
🛡️ Getting ClamAV Daemon to Play Nice with Nextcloud’s Antivirus App (Like a True Nerd)
If you’re like me and want your Nextcloud to scream the moment something shady shows up in your files, then you’re probably using the Antivirus for Files app. But here’s…