./techtipsy

I liked Ubuntu.

In November 2024, my blog was down for over 24 hours.

I was in a pinch.

In December 2024, I did something that I had never done before: I participated in a short (~6 hours) Dungeons and Dragons campaign.

Good news, everyone!

Just like most people out there, I have some files that are irreplaceable, such as cat pictures.

I’ve recently made an effort to reduce the amount of tech stuff that I own.

Imagine that you have an unencrypted drive containing your private data and one day it starts throwing a bunch of errors.

For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network.

In 2011, I was finishing 9th grade.

This is a follow-up to my two previous attempts on this topic: Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?

I like Fedora Linux.

Kubernetes: everyone wants to do it, regardless of their scale and business objectives.1 Common justifications include better scalability, cost savings, standardization and being super modern and stuff.

I had the opportunity to test the resiliency of my home server setup due to a scheduled power outage on 2024-09-13.

It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog.

I helped a family member upgrade to a newer iPhone and make some room so that the internal storage does not run out.

I’ve officially worked as a software developer since August 2016, and by now I have a fair share of stories to tell from those years.

I probably shouldn’t have written down my notes on the eGPU setup I had years ago.

The ThinkPad T430 has a few options for running it with an external display: VGA port, which is pretty much obsolete at this point mini DisplayPort connector on the laptop itself DVI or DisplayPort on a dock The mini DisplayPort port has annoyed me for as…

The ThinkPad T430 is not a remarkable laptop.

This blog is running on a home server (again).

A family member has a Canon PIXMA MP250 printer, originally released in 2009.

I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are based around the coveted USB-C port.

I got a Steam Deck.

I recently busted out my old ThinkPad T40, the last of the OG IBM ThinkPads.

My current ISP provides an internet connection over a copper wire.

ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality.

This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replic…

I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work.

You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it.

2025 June update: Fairphone support is unacceptably bad.

This post is a short overview of my experience at a career day in Valga, Estonia, hosted with the help of GreenDice.

Those of you who follow my blog using the RSS feed might have seen that new, incomplete posts popped up around the time I published my FOSDEM 2024 post.

I finally went to FOSDEM.

It turns out that you can’t trust any USB type A power adapter to be within spec.

Your service cannot process events fast enough during peak hours.

I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while.

I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time.

I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently.

While on vacation I went on a small road-trip across Estonia.

Steam recently launched a new feature: local network game transfers.

I recently learned about the IKEA SKÅDIS series, which is a pegboard that supports a variety of extras.

A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it anywhere you want using Kiwix.

k-space is a hackerspace in Tallinn, Estonia, and they organized a hackathon recently.

It all started with me getting a Steam Deck.

There are two reasons why I haven’t written much lately, and one of them is that I was cooking up a talk about self-hosting, more specifically my own self-hosting adventure (the other one is the Steam Deck, more about that in the future).

Oh boy, here I go testing a new laptop again!

Over my relatively short career (6+ years), I’ve noticed a change in the way I approach building things.

Hard drives are still the default choice for many homelab and data hoarding enthusiasts.

Yesterday was election day in Estonia and the results are in, which is why I remembered that one time I looked at my website on the Wayback Machine.