solariz.de - Tech & Thoughts

This is my personal blog where I post all kinds of code snippets, small tools and ‘how tos’, mostly about stuff I have in mind recently or a game I currently play. If you want to know more, see the About me page.

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2026

September

Slashing Watts on My Proxmox Homeserver

This is a followup to my previous two articles, first My Homeserver is dying in slow motion and then the old box got replaced in My homeserver is new again…. One of the …

August

My homeserver is new again...

As written last month in My homeserver is dying in slow motion it just crashed again a day after. Of course while I was in Paris for the EWC so no chance to fix it. In an impulse I …

My Homeserver is dying in slow motion

And with slowly I mean slowly to the point where it actually not bothering me enough to take action immediatly… Did you ever had that? A piece of Hardware slowly losing …

June

Milky☆Subway

well, not exactly a normal anime recommendation but close. Still so different that even people who normally skip anime stuff can give it a look. Really, a small piece of man made …

May

May Days - blog, linux, codeberg

Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog. At the end it was nearly 500Kb just for a slightly different font. Well, I used …

April

A local epub eBook server for my xteink

As I wrote before, recently I got myself a XTEINK X4, even the blogpost is not that old I got it a little more than a week ago. After using it active several days I can really say …

New gadget; Xteink X4 E-Ink reader flashed with Papyrix

I mean isn’t it a totaly adult and viable decision to directly buy a tech thing after you read a bunch of blogs writing about it? Yeah, absolutely :) And as some of the …

April this and that...

Minor Blog Extensions First I added asciinema support to better show some console stuff. ASCIInema allows to record a terminal session in text and replay it as text. So no wasteful …

FZF+Fish are great in SSH-Completion

What it does… As said, fzf is my go to for great shell search and tui’s. Basically add a fuzzy search to everyting you can imagine. But this is not what I want to …

March

Pockethernet BER and ID Plugs

This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and …

February

Kara-Tiles - A Kara Keep New Tab Page Addon

What is Karakeep? Well, I’ll write an extra blog article about it soon, so in short: It’s a self-hosted open-source bookmark manager with a cloud-hosted option …

Good Linux compatible USB-C Travel Hub with PD

Not an lenghy Article, just posting my findings for whoever may need it. The Hardware: i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano Docking Station Named by the bulky name i-tec USB-C 4K Metall Nano …

January

Signals encrypted Storage on Linux Desktops!

signal on Linux offer the way to store your encryption key in your system walled (encrypted) or local as plain-text unencrypted. Actually if you use a full disk encryption a clean …

Tuxedo Laptop Battery acting strange - replaced

Currently I use as my productivity working device a Tuxedo Laptop, the Infinity book pro 14". It is about 1.5yrs old and started acting up in december when it comes to …

Pixelfed Integration for hugo based /photos Page

Recently we had the Digital Independence Day what better Reason could one have to rethink how I use published photos. I actually wanted to integrate them better into my blog …

2025

December

Win git - Could not read from remote repository.

Fixing Git Clone SSH Agent on Windows Last days I run Git on Windows for a quick upload of something, tried cloning the private repo over SSH, and it bombed out with a permission …

Star Citizen 4.5 Vulkan Crash on Start-Up

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 …

RAM Prices cryout...

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 …

WinSCP with 1password SSH-Agent

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. …

Pockethernet V2 Test

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, …