Why I set this up I got tired of Amazon Photos, at some point the Family setup was broken, my wife was locked out, the Amazon support was not super helpful after several calls. Also the price for storing videos has gone up and up and I felt that enough is enough, I needed to take ownership of my photos. In general I …

It's been a while since I got a Logitech Litra Glow USB light for my desk setup, and I wanted to control it directly from my CachyOS Arch system. Fortunately, there are some great open-source tools available in the AUR - litra and litra-autoglow. You learn something new every day. At some point I was afraid that I …

I was checking my blog, dont ask why and I just realised that my last post was about a small Python script that I created in order to boostrap my Fedora Desktop. I had a good time with Fedora, but I have switched some months now over to Arch and specifically CachyOS and I think I am loving it. I do like paru and pacman …

It's been a few months now since I switched to Fedora as the main OS on my PC. I've been using the KDE version and I'm pretty happy with it, as I'd gotten slightly tired of GNOME. It's been a journey for me, and one thing that has helped a lot in recent years is the fact that I maintain (like many, many others out …

I deciced to upgrade my monitor and this time I went really big! Welcome U4323QE .

This isn't a complete step-by-step guide, but rather some supplementary notes to complement Pangolin's excellent official documentation and Jims Garage's helpful video tutorial. What Is Pangolin? Pangolin is a reverse proxy that leverages WireGuard to securely expose and share services hosted on your local home …

Several people have already blogged about the significance of random_page_cost in Postgres and how it can be a game-changer for your setup and deployments that fetch data from Postgres. Especially if you run Postgres on some cloud, such as AWS, and it happens to run on relatively modern infrastructure - please read the …

After several years of owning, I think, three different versions of the Apple Watch, I’m moving away from this product as well. My "de-Apple-ification" continues. I still own an iPhone, which I’m relatively happy with, but I’ve either ditched or retired my Apple Watch and old MacBooks (just retired them). The Apple …

It's time for an update on my blog! After taking a hiatus from blogging, I'm excited to say that it's finally back online. For now, I've added two new static sections to my website: Linux and PC. The Linux section here, will serve as a resource for my own journey with Linux - specifically, the list of tools and …

It is really funny, I had a draft post from 2023 almost a year ago. I decided to git pull the repo in a desperate attempt to force my self into writing. I have to admit I miss my blog, there was a time when I was super enthusiastic about it. My blogging days are now gone and most probably nobody reads my blog, I mean …