./techtipsy
The unreasonable effectiveness of the pancake rule
Those cheap AliExpress 18650 Li-ion cell power bank enclosures suck, actually
The 'politsei' problem, or how filtering unwanted content is still an issue in 2025
How to run Uptime Kuma in Docker in an IPv6-only environment
3D printing is pretty darn cool, actually
PSA: part of your Kagi subscription fee goes to a Russian company (Yandex)
How a Hibernate deprecation log message made our Java backend service super slow
From building ships to shipping builds: how to succeed in making a career switch to software development
My horrible Fairphone customer care experience
Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny: how does it fare as a home server?
We get laptops with annoying cooling fans because we keep buying them
Home is where the home server is
The coffee machine ran out of memory
About the time I trashed my mother's laptop
Fairphone Fairbuds XL review: admirable goals, awful product
I yearn for the perfect home server
Turns out that I'm a 'prolific open-source influencer' now
IODD ST400 review: great idea, good product, terrible firmware
Feature toggles: just roll your own!
I'm done with Ubuntu
Why my blog was down for over 24 hours in November 2024
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
My very first Dungeons and Dragons campaign
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now!
How to build a fleet of networked offsite backups using Linux, WireGuard and rsync
What I've learned running Linux and Windows off of USB flash drives
You can use almost anything as a key file for your encrypted storage device
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)
The best laptop is the one somebody else had
ThinkPad as a server: third time's the charm
The Fedora Linux starter pack: everything you need for a smooth experience
So you want to migrate to Kubernetes: observations from a software developer
My blog successfully survived a scheduled power outage
I encourage you to write a blog
How to copy media off of an iPhone the hard way (using Linux)
How I ended up working as a software developer
Running my ThinkPad T430 with an eGPU in 2024
No HDMI port on the ThinkPad T430? No problem!
About the time my ThinkPad T430 ran with an external GPU
This blog is running on a home server
How to save an old printer from the e-waste pile with a Raspberry Pi
They make USB-C cables with displays now!
Steam Deck: I like it
ThinkPad T40: it can still run modern Linux, for now
OpenWRT, ISP modem and dynamic IP addresses: how to fix connectivity issues without rebooting your router every time
The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga
Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux
How to take down production with a single Helm command
Fairphone 5 long-term review: notes on 1 year and 3 months of use
My very first career day
Oops, I published my drafts!
FOSDEM 2024: my experience, some notes and tech tips
My cat water fountain comes with a spicy USB power adapter
The simplicity of the modulo operator: how I scaled an inefficient solution on a legacy system
Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time
Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup
My trip to the Communication and Laptop Museum in Estonia
Steam local network game transfers are a game-changer
The IKEA-powered homelab on a wall
Why you might not want to publicly self-host a Wikipedia clone
My experience at the k-space hackerspace hackathon
How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix)
I held a talk about my self-hosting adventure!
Dell Latitude 5411: the Linux compatibility sweet spot
Life is maintenance, maintenance is life
Tiered storage: use the right tool for the job
I looked at this site on the Wayback Machine
TOMO M4: probably the coolest power bank I've owned
LattePanda V1 - my experience with a Raspberry Pi alternative
Shrinkflation, SanDisk style
ThinkPad as a server: the follow-up
Anything's a portable speaker if you're brave enough
About the time I used Google Drive as a CMS for a web app
What changing the CPU on a laptop looks like
HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC
I have a 'Dall UD19PB ThundeRbglt Dock': my experience with the HP Elitebook 845 G9
I finally found an use case for my Raspberry Pi Model B+
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60
Testing a cheap ExpressCard to NVMe SSD adapter on my ThinkPad T430
The minimum viable fan control script
Accidentally turning the ASRock DeskMini X300 into a semi-passively cooled PC
Overcoming hardware limitations: the time-to-sleep script
This site will be offline on 2022-08-17 between 18:00-19:00 EEST
I tried out the CyberPower UT650EG UPS
btrbk is awesome
The absolute state of Bluetooth audio in 2022
Disabling the crappy Broadcom Bluetooth adapter in your ThinkPad T430 running Linux
Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?
Trying out VR on an AMD Ryzen 4000 series APU
Strangling your service with a Kubernetes misconfiguration
Oversimplified guide into snapshots on the btrfs filesystem
My self-hosting setup has an UPS now, here's my experience with it
How I treat my urge to hoard data
Surviving the front page of HackerNews on a 50 Mbps uplink
ASRock X570M Pro4 motherboard overview
ASRock DeskMini X300: the future form factor of desktop PC-s?
Why I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012
VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything
Self-hosting Wikipedia using Kiwix
Tech rants: PC-s use way too much power in 2021
DIY cloud gaming: NVIDIA and Moonlight
DIY cloud gaming setup with VFIO, Parsec and AMD
Testing GPU passthrough on AMD Ryzen 7 5700G APU
Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34
How to mess up a simple ThinkPad X230 BIOS flash and how to recover from it
I've reached the self-hosting endgame
Tech tip: eliminate HDD humming noise
Whacky setups: seedbox on a wall
How to start your self-hosting adventure: a high-level overview
My server setups throughout the years
My attempt at archiving nfscars.net
Database optimization adventures on low-end hardware
Things I've learned during my self-hosting adventure
How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater
How to make digital copies of your old video tapes
What running out of SATA ports looks like
Running on fumes
Stupid project ideas: the War Machine
Disk is OK
How I fixed one hardware issue with another one
This page looks better in the app
The little Wi-Fi AP that could