With today’s released Patch 4.5, Star Citizen switched to using the Vulkan renderer by default. This is a big step forward. But unfortunately, for some players, the game simply does not start anymore. You run the launcher, and then the game immediately crashes. I ran into this myself, and eventually, after trying everything, I found I got it working. Also a recommendation after you got Vulkan running I wrote about best Performance Settings for Star Citizen Vulkan in my citizen-history blog. ...

Uhhm sometimes you realize how lucky you been buying your PC Upgrade at the right time. Shortly after Gamescom 2025 I upgraded my home desktop to new CPU and Motherboard also decided to make the jump from DDR4 to DDR5… I read about the recent explosion in RAM prices but little did I realize how huge it actually is on some specific RAM Models. An eye opener screenshot, the Store page where I bought my 64 GB DDR5 MT6000 Kit. Same Kit in September vs exactly 3 Month later in December. 264 € vs 1.748 € Uhmmm… ...

My Setup and the Problem I use Linux on my main work laptop, where remote access is effortless: I can SSH with Kitty’s remote edit kitten or mount remotes via KDE Dolphin. But at home, my desktop runs Windows 11 for gaming (thanks to stupid anti-cheat restrictions). I normally just game on the desktop; but sometimes I have to do some work from the Desktop, already at the desk and need to quickly edit stuff remote. Most time I just used scp. But remembering in the past as win user, I used WinSCP for remote file editing. Found out quicky it natively refuses to connect using my SSH key from the already running agent in 1password. ...

Pockethernet 2: Hands-On Test of the Revived Network Tester Some years ago, at a event, I could try the original Pockethernet V1. At this time I owned a bigger Tester with display, mostly not with me because to heavy for every day carry. The Pocketethernet looked like a interesting0 small tester for cables and simple network checks, but after playing a bit with it I didn’t like it much. The App was mediocre, I had issues with the connection but now, fast forward: ...

Got one Ubiquiti Unifi 10G Ethernet Adapter, model UACC-Adapter-RJ45-USBC-10GE. In the past, I’ve mostly got StarTech adapters for 10G Copper, but right now they’re either sold out or going for double the price. The Unifi 10G is 150€ plus tax, it fits what I need. First off, it plugged right in on my Linux laptop running kernel 6.14 and a MacBook Air. No fuss with drivers or anything. Here’s what the kernel spit out on Linux: ...

To be honest, the switch from a classic CMS to Hugo had a steep learning curve at first, but Hugo is incredible. Even though we have static pages, you can do a lot of “dynamic” stuff. The Problem From the start when I began using Hugo, I had an issue with the open graph images, per default you can specify one image as default in hugo and use post header mages as og:image. Well - I try to keep my blog posts free of images which are not beneficiary to the content. Screenshots are fine but general pseudo matching placeholder images just that you have something for the header 🤷‍♂️. So the problem that came up was all posts ended up with the same image when you linked to the article. ...

MacOS Better ip info in terminal One particular painful point, coming from linux, was the ip command in the Terminal. The Default MacOS ifconfig command is very - well let’s say “old fashioned” :) Coming from Linux you mostly use ip for everyting ip a to display your interfaces ip r your routes, and so on. Luckily you can install the iproute2 Package on MacOS which give you the ip command. ...

Switching to MacOS after decades on Windows and Linux felt strange in many places. Things work somehow, but not quite how you expect. One of the first oddities I ran into was the keyboard mapping. Not Talking about CTRL-ALT-META-CMD stuff, this is a whole “getting used to” learning curve on it’s own. But if you’re using a regular “IBM PC” layout which is mostly identical on Windows and Linux Desktop, on macOS some keys act… unpredictable. Specifically, Home and End keys don’t do what you would expect them to do. Instead of jumping to the start or end of a line, they scroll entire documents or behave differently depending on the app. In editors like VS Code? No problem, they work fine. But TextEdit, Office or some others and suddenly they behave totally different. ...

Sometimes the smallest things can drive you insane. After rebuild of my gaming PC I started getting random screen flickers and digital tearing on my 1440p ultrawide OLED monitor. Not all the time, just enough to make me question my sanity. First thought: GPU’s dying? But how odd would that been just after a PC rebuild. I wiped Windows 11 and reinstalled everything, random flickers still there. Turns out, it was the stupid DisplayPort cable. A 3m DP1.4 one, which on paper should handle my setup no problem, bandwidth-wise. But nope, it was flaky, probably connector broken. ...

One particular painful experience I had under MacOS was that it seems not to be possible with on-board settings to configure which program / action should be used on execution of a Link. Similar as you would choose a default Browser or Email app, this is needed for far more than just the browser. e.g.: open mailto:// links with outlook​ open ssh:// links with kitty-term​ open ftp:// with transmission​ and so on… ...