As alluded to before, the number of servers I manage recently outgrew my ability or rather willingness to maintain all of them manually so, naturally, the desire to introduce automation arose. I've wo...
Since I like reading and shelf space is precious where I live I own an ebook reader. I've had this one for a few years now and bought it used back in the day but by now it has accumulated a sufficient...
You might recall that I've written about this before, this is round two, as you will. I was once again in need of removing DRM from my ebooks as the previous method I had stopped working. More specifi...
What's Up? I have been self-hosting stuff for years now. It started with Nextcloud once upon a time but by now there are a whole bunch of really useful services that run on my personal server. Said se...
I've been blogging (on and off) for a while now. Originally, I just wanted a place to write down things I'd done, tutorials, idle thoughts, stuff like that. But since I'm also active on Mastodon (or r...
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...
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...
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...
Nowadays, I get the impression that most people realize how dependent we all are on the tech giants. Those few companies that are worth more than some countries and which shaped the internet of today...
I've recently realized something. My use of the Linux operating system and all it offers has been evolving in something of a wave-like pattern. When I started out, the first thing I tried was Linux Mi...