✅ 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,…
WordPress on K3s — A Nerdy, Layered Update Strategy
This article is a direct continuation of the previous guide. If you haven’t read it yet, start here: Initial Setup: WordPress on K3s (Ansible-managed). This guide describes a clean, deterministic…
fwupd: Because Firmware Shouldn’t Require a USB Stick from 2009
Let’s be honest: firmware updates have historically been… a mess. You download a mysterious ISO, write it to a USB stick, reboot into some arcane environment, pray to the silicon…
🧠 Operating Community Nextcloud Instances with Ansible, AlmaLinux, SELinux and a Podman-based Collabora Stack
I currently operate multiple Nextcloud instances for two local community organizations in a purely voluntary capacity. The original motivation was twofold: enabling digital sovereignty while turning the entire setup into…
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…
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…
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…