I’m a data hoarder. And as such I still have email conversations going back to 2003. To not clog up my provider’s disk space and, because I don’t want to donate all these old conversations to Google, I’ve setup my own email archive using dovecot. Early versions ran natively on one of my Raspberry Pis,… Read More »
I usually have a few SMB shares from my NAS mounted on my Raspberry Pis. However, I rarely need to actually use them and scripts only need them once a day (backup). So I figured: Why let the OS bother with keeping those mounts active all day long when there’s a better way? Cue autofs.… Read More »
My private SSH key is ancient. And thus it still was in the “old” RSA format, recognisable by the header: This never was an issue. Everything works fine. Until now. While trying out GitFinder, it just didn’t want to accept my id_rsa file and always came back with “invalid format”. I’ve also made sure to… Read More »
After moving to a new place, I had to put my ADS-B handling Raspberry Pi 2B into a cupboard far from any network connection. So I’ve plugged in a cheap USB WiFi dongle and connected it to my WiFi. However, I don’t know whether it’s the dongle or something specific to the RasPi2’s USB implementation,… Read More »
I’m using a ConBee II Zigbee stick by Dresden Elektronik but switched from their own Phoscon/deCONZ software to the Home Assistant ZHA integration. While I didn’t have any issues with my few Zigbee devices, today, I’ve noticed that there’s a newer firmware available for my ConBee stick. Usually, the firmware update is handled by the… Read More »
Back when I bought my Nintendo Switch, I made sure to buy an unpatched one – turning all the different boxes in the store upside down to read the serial number on the bottom and compare it with the list I had on my phone. However, apart from some experiments with SX OS and later… Read More »
In April 2023, Reddit announced that it will start asking for money to use their API for commercial purposes. This also included 3rd party apps, e.g. the famous iOS Reddit client “Apollo”. While there was hope it won’t get too pricy at first and the other changes looked manageable, that hope got crushed when Reddit’s… Read More »
Modern heads for Sonicare toothbrushes come with a small chip that records not only the type of head, but also how many seconds you’ve used it – so the head unit can remind you that it’s time to swap the head for a new one. This isn’t purely for monetary reasons, especially as the unit… Read More »
In December 2011, I bought a Philips Sonicare DiamondClean Smart 9400 toothbrush set, product code HX9917/89. This included a HX992B handset – that offers Bluetooth connection to their app and also has a LED in the bottom to show when you’re applying too much pressure while brushing. The handset transfers your brushing info to their… Read More »
Google introduced its location tracking service Latitude in February 2009. A year later, in March 2010, I bought my first Android phone: the Google Nexus One. A few days later I’ve enable Google Latitude on it and my first checkin was on 31 March 2010 at 16:20:48 CEST. And apart from when I was without… Read More »