Cory Dransfeldt published a list of inspirations for what to do to become worthless to tech companies. A lot probably sounds easier than it actually is nowadays, but anything is better than nothing, right? One of my ways to handle subscriptions is also to check if there’s some regional pricing available or tricks to...

When I’m on my bike and do a little evening tour, I often follow the same routes. Some variations here and there, but not too many. On Friday, I did more of a detour from my usual paths. I went along a beautiful lake in Braunschweig towards Wolfenbüttel and then through a little forest next to where I studied. After...

Just another addition to my ever-growing collection of headphones: the new Anker (soundcore) Liberty Buds 2. Just available for a few days, but just in time, the battery of the charging case of my Liberty 3 Pro starts to show its age and doesn’t want to charge fully anymore. I’m not yet 100% sure if I will keep...

I was in Bad Segeberg over the weekend to visit my grandmother, who lives with dementia. Interacting with her is always so demanding, as she constantly repeats how lonely she is and tells hurting stories about my grandfather’s and my father’s deaths. That those two are gone for ten and nine years already seems to be...

Speaking of OIDC, I searched in my drawer and found all three security keys I own again. A YubiKey 5C NFC with firmware 5.4.3 (apparently not so secure anymore and not upgradable) and two SoloKeys Solo 2 (one USB-A and one USB-C, both with NFC) I funded via Indiegogo many years ago. Those have upgradable firmware,...

Tim Hårek really sent me down a rabbit hole with all the self-hosted services he lists on his latest blog post. There are some interesting links I put on my reading list. The first one I actually looked into, though, was Pocket ID. It’s a nice little OpenID Connect provider. A great homelab alternative to Keycloak,...

Not too long ago, I switched from two Hetzner Cloud VPS to one netcup VPS, with integrating my mailserver setup into my hosting setup. It works fine so far. To keep things simple and because I’m back on Ubuntu on my laptop, I decided to just go with Ubuntu on the VPS as well. But stumbling over bootc, I can’t stop...

After one and a half years, there’s a new addition to my collection of almost exclusively soundcore headphones: the open-ear soundcore (by Anker) AeroClip. As I wrote recently, I purchased a DJI Mic 3 (150 €) to improve my audio input for work calls. It’s the microphone many influencers use, and from my tests, the...

Another month has passed and my monthly review is a bit late this time. Why? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, let’s take a look back at August. At the beginning of the month, we enjoyed our last day in South Tyrol and then started the long journey back. We were stuck in a traffic jam for 1.5 hours on the...

My sites had a few TLS problems during the last few days. It was due to some Actalis certificates being revoked and OCSP failing for them. I don’t really know why Caddy wasn’t able to renew all of them correctly, but it should be fixed now. While I like Actalis for being the only real European free TLS certificate...

With the first point release of Ubuntu 26.04 in the form of Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, I can briefly summarize my thoughts about being back on Ubuntu for almost half a year now. Do I miss Windows? Absolutely not. I love how much I don’t need to care about the system anymore. Updates? So fast. Booting? So fast. Issues?...

I bought a DJI Mic 3 to improve my audio quality during calls. Better audio input, and I can also use normal headphones like my Soundcore AeroFit 2, so I also have better audio output compared to my Aftershokz OpenComm or the Anker PowerConf S330. I bought a set with two senders and one receiver and the charging...