Why I dislike Rockstar Games now
Dear reader, I recently had an experience so bizarre that I feel like sharing it with the world wide web for all the good that will do. Take it as my way of blowing off some steam. Without further pre...
How To: Rip BluRay discs on Linux
Disclaimer: Ripping BluRays with Handbrake is discouraged by its developers. They recommend using MakeMKV instead which is more robust in this respect since it's built for the task. By now I've adopte...
How To: Create a Digital Frame with MagicMirror
I've wanted a digital frame at home for a while now. I'm notoriously bad at organizing pictures, even worse at sorting, printing, arranging or displaying them. So when I found out that digital frames...
Self-Hosting or How I learned to stop worrying and love the Cloud
For a few years now, I've hosted a small server at home. Nothing too exciting, I'd say. It all started with a Nextclound instance (see here) and sort of evolved from there. After a while I discovered...
Second Impression of the Steam Deck
It's been a few months so I thought an update on my last post on the Steam Deck is in order. So let's get to it, shall we? The Good First off, the things I liked about the Deck the first time around a...
My New Job
I've got a new job. I started working as a developer for a software consulting company last October and wanted to finally take the opportunity to write about it all. My last job didn't end particularl...
How To: Find Which Package Provides a Given File
Don't you just hate it when you're in your terminal and want to run some commands, only to discover that you don't have the appropriate package installed (yet)? Maybe you recently reinstalled your mac...
First Impression of the Steam Deck
I received my Steam Deck two weeks ago after a wait of roughly half a year. Thus, I wanted to write a blog entry to jot down my first impressions of the device. If you don't know anything about it yet...
How To: Remove DRM from eBooks
Edit: As of today (December 2025) this does not work anymore and hasn't for a while. I've written a new blog post about how to do this instead. A while ago I bought an eBook reader. I figured it's a s...
First Impression of GrapheneOS on New Phone
I recently decided to get a new phone. The old one (a ShiftPhone 6m) wasn't that old yet, I only bought it 2.5 years ago but it was already running on Android 8.1 which is no longer supported. I could...