Spoiler: It’s not the site you were hoping for. It’s about laptop fans. The kind that whine So unfortunately, if you came for some kinky content — yeah, you’re in the wrong place. Unless thermal paste and tiny screws do it for you. Then… welcome.” What follows is a tale of overheating, misdiagnosis, sticky residue,…
Category: Computers
Note to self: Technical debt
I’m a nerd. Yeah, I admit it. Most of my readers probably know packages like Home Assistant and Domoticz… right? Well. Because I can… I wrote my own whole damn domotica-based system from scratch. Yes. You read that correctly. I wrote my own whole damn domotica system. From. Scratch. YEP 😛 And again — why?…
A blast from the past – Outdoor gaming!
Outdoor gaming? But computers — and their owners — “hate” the outdoors. With all that moisture, dust, and glare, it sounds like a terrible idea. So why do it? Yet I did! Not once, not twice — but more than twenty times. And honestly, I don’t think it’ll ever happen again.
Linux update!
I didn’t have this blog yet, so you probably missed it — but back in January, I made the switch from Windows 11 to Linux Mint 22. It’s been almost six months since the transition. So what do I like about Linux so far, and are there still a few minor annoyances? Time for an…
School: Autistic Edition — The User Manual I Never Got
Introduction The title is a pretty good description of how I felt about my school years: The User Manual I Never Got. I can vividly remember many times when I thought, “I wish I had known all of this beforehand.”“Can’t I do this year again? Because now I know what is expected.”
How this idiot got from a relational DB ‘LLM’ concept to the real deal
‘How I used an LLM to learn about an LLM’ First things first: I’ve been using LLMs for about a year now — and I absolutely love them. I use ChatGPT every single day, and in that time I’ve applied it to almost everything: from learning and configuring Proxmox, to making the final switch from…
Dead Symbols, Living Systems — Why Some Knowledge Won’t Compile
Why information sometimes is very hard to digest and save As long as I can remember, I’ve had this weird issue with learning new things. Take high school, for example. Subjects like history and geography were a breeze. Even the statistics and probability part of math came naturally to me — but algebra and calculus?…
Backup stories — What was needed to get to NEVER again
Ever since I owned a computer, I’ve lost data. Those three moments got me to the point where I said: “This will never, ever happen again.” This story is about how I went from thinking that RAID is backup, to the backup setup I have today. And yes, I’ll sprinkle this story with the mistakes…