2025

October

MacOS - Keyboard Mappings

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 …

DisplayPort Cable Sanity Check

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. …

MacOS - Custom Protocol Handler

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 …

August

Paperless broke after update

Paperless-ngx “PostgreSQL 14 or later is required” Error After updating Paperless-ngx via Docker compose, I suddenly found that the service refused to start. In your …

June

Fedora Captive Portal Issue

Today a small blog post about a real headache I had with Fedora and public WiFi in hotels or at events and such places. If you work remote like me you hop from wifi to wifi all the …

April

Audiobook MP3 merge

The Problem with Tiny MP3 Files Why do online audiobook shops always split everything into tiny MP3 files? I honestly don’t get it. I bought this audiobook for my daughter and …

February

ColorMyShell - Colored Bash Prompt Generator

ColorMyShell.tcpip.wtf We all have our little digital sanctuaries, places where we spend countless hours typing away, solving problems, and creating things. For many of us, …

2023

December

Exploring Star Citizen’s Initial Shader Generation: An Experiment

In the realm of PC gaming, performance is a central focus for developers and gamers alike. A defining aspect of a smooth gameplay experience is how well a game compiles and …

Force docker Containers through VPN using gluetun

Welcome back to the command line connoisseurs and Docker devotees! In today’s digital dive, we’re fortifying our containerized architecture with an added layer of …

September

Keeping a personal Knowledge Base

Today I want to give a Software Recommendation; Joplin. In the grand journey of life, there comes a point when the sheer volume of knowledge accumulated over the years becomes …

January

Star Citizen - Performance Tuning and get rid of Stuttering

o7 Citizens, When I returned to playing Star Citizen, I faced significant issues with the performance of my PC, which surprised me. However, through these challenges, I’ve …

2022

October

pfSense; Unable to check for updates

Ok, one of our pfSense in Production just did it again, greet me with a friendly “Unable to check for updates”. My first suspect was DNS again, but after checking all …

April

pfSense with PPPoE tagged VLAN Connection

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2021

October

Why your local DNS Name does matter.

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April

Windows DHCP Info / Monitor Tool

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March

NUC LED to Display Internet Connection Quality

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February

pfSense pkg error: Shared object “libarchive.so.7” not found, required by “pkg”

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January

rescreen - Tool to move all Windows to your Win Main Screen

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Cyberpunk Crackling Sound / Audio Noise Issue

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2020

December

Unitymedia / Vodafone Cable with real DUAL-Stack

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