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In my opinion, this vacuum cleaner sucks at sucking, I only got it due to the wife approval factor, and the fact it shares batteries with my power tools.

Back in 2022, I gave the CyberPower UT650EG a try.

I’ve been aware of open weights local language models for over a year.

When I was a teenager, I got gifted a cactus.

Earlier this year, I received an old PC for free from my teammate Kristjan Lepik.

In 2023, I ordered a cheap piece of crap USB to HDMI adapter.

It’s no secret that I was highly skeptical of LLM-s.

This post serves as a personal bookmark and a mirror of this fantastic guide by Ok-Pace-1900 on /r/linux_gaming to ensure that this information does not get lost.

Networking has long been my Achilles heel.

Do you have a need for speed really fast disk performance?

Remember that failed experiment where I ran Jellyfin off of a LattePanda V1?

Keeping my focus has been challenging.

The apartment that I live in right now has two small rooms with doors on them.

I got the opportunity to try out a MacBook Pro with the M3 Pro with 18GB RAM (not Pro).

It has happened.

This is inspired by a dying Seagate Portable 4TB hard drive, and brought to you by 15 minutes of vibe engineering.

In April 2024, I wrote on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 and how it does not suck under Linux.

This is the Garbage PC.

LattePanda V1.

Some of my dumb experiments result in interesting findings and unexpected successes.

I had the opportunity to do some slight renovation on an apartment.

I like the Steam Deck.

It happened again.

Disclosure: the review sample was provided by DFRobot, the makers of LattePanda.

In my professional career, I’ve started experimenting with LLM-based tooling to see if they are all hype or if there is some actual substance in it.

I take pride in hosting my blog on a 13-year old ThinkPad acting as a home server, but sometimes it’s kind of a pain.

Nextcloud.

Start of experiment: September 2025 Post last updated: October 2025 Check the live status of my Orange Pi Zero here!

Our apartment came with a refrigerator.

This post is NOT sponsored, the products were bought with my hard-earned money.

I’ve been running four Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s for a while now.

Being chronically late to meetings sucks.

I had a few old ThinkPad batteries lying around.

A long time ago, there was a small Estonian website called “Mängukoobas” (literal translation from Estonian is “game cave”).

I use Uptime Kuma to check the availability of a few services that I run, with the most important one being my blog.

I love 3D printing.

Today I learned that Kagi uses Yandex as part of its search infrastructure, making up about 2% of their costs, and their CEO has confirmed that they do not plan to change that.

It was time to upgrade Hibernate on that one Java monolithic1 backend service that my team was responsible for.

I have worked with a few software developers who made the switch to this industry in the middle of their careers.

Fairphone has bad customer support.

My evenings of absent-minded local auction site scrolling1 paid off: I now own a Lenovo ThinkCentre M900 Tiny.

I don’t like laptops with loud cooling fans in them.

I moved recently, and so did my home server.

After looking into an incident involving Kubernetes nodes running out of memory, I took a trip to the office kitchen to take a break and get a cup of the good stuff.

Around 2003, my mother had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT.

I bought the Fairphone Fairbuds XL with my own money at a recent sale for 186.75 EUR, plus 15 EUR for shipping to Estonia.

I’ve changed my home server setup a lot over the past decade, mainly because I keep changing the goals all the time.

Yes, you read that right.

I’ve written about abusing USB storage devices in the past, with a passing mention that I’m too cheap to buy an IODD device.

When you’re dealing with a particularly large service with a slow deployment pipeline (15-30 minutes), and a rollback delay of up to 10 minutes, you’re going to need feature toggles (some also call them feature flags) to turn those half-an-hour nerve-wrec…