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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 animation that deserves some minutes of your time if you haven’t heard of it yet. milky☆subway was made by yohei kameyama. he first did a 4 minute short called milky☆highway back in 2022 as his graduation project at kadokawa’s vantan game academy. That one blew up on youtube. So he went and made a full mini series after. ...

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 self-hosted WOFF2 Fonts. Nevertheless, tiny is better. Also at the footer of each post I integrated a webmention display via webmention.io. And last but not least, I updated the /uses page. Home Desktop Win Free 1st of may is a public holiday in germany, I used to extended weekend to debug a small thing which got on my nerves recently. My home Desktop boot time was annoying me. Sometimes it needed 1-2 minutes to show the login screen. Don’t get me wrong, I am not always in a rush - but this is one hting I cant stand; Having a system I know it should boot in <20s and seeing something is not right. Just bugs me and causes something I call a “frustration focus” so it had to be solved no matter what. Guess what; It was the 2nd SSD in my System with a Win11 on it for dual boot. For what ever reason the systemd init every boot tried to “wait” for this drive. I set a udev rule, didnt helped. I excluded it fully in grub, did not help either. After tinkering around for longer then I should have, I finally decided that the last time I booted this windows I cant even remember so why bother… Partition table cleared and disk reinit as btrfs. ...

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 the size is the big win and the best argument for this eBook reader. I really keep the habbit to have it in my pocket beside my wallet. It is so tiny it doesn’t hurt and I found myself using it more and more if I need to wait somewhere. ...

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 Podcasts I listen also mentioned this one I was sold. As you can see on Bubbles how this is really in everyones “mouth” in the last days. What the… ? Well the XTEINK X4 isn’t just a regular boring ebook reader. It’s also not going to replace my 8" ebook reader, but it is tiny, it fits in my palm allowing me to really just have it with me everywhere. ...

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 GIF or blurry MP4 for just text. You can see the first use of it in this blog in my FZF SSH Parser Article. Then inspired by Naty I also implemented humans.txt [?] and human.json [?] standards to this blog. Im not so big in all the Indieweb standards. But specially in times of AI slob everywhere, it cant hurt to have more humans on the web. ...

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 write about, today I want to show another usecase of fzf in combination with my fish shell. I start using fzf as a SSH config tui. It allows me to type ssh + space and the basically type any hostname or alias from within my .ssh/config to autocomplete and search using up down. See the recording: ...

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 ID Plugs but not available at that time. Now some time later this changed and I clicked them in the official Pockethernet store. Brief preface; I am neither sponsored by Pockethernet nor have I received anything for free; everything here was purchased by me through normal means and is in regular use by myself. ...

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 available. I work on multiple devices and browsers, and the integrated browser bookmark management is not ideal for my workflow. Karakeep (formerly named Hoarder) solves this problem and adds lots of useful features, such as an actual page summary, allowing me to use it not only as a bookmark manager, but also as a replacement for my “read it later” list. ...

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 Docking Station 1x HDMI 1x GLAN 3x USB 3.0 1x SD/MicroSD 1x Audio Power Delivery 100W I found mine on Amazon. Port-wise, it has what I need. Mostly I use this kind of light dock if I work remotely or at events to attach one screen, network, mouse and have it charging my laptop. So I can quickly grab it when I need to go somewhere. ...

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 text key isn’t a huge issue. But nevertheless to give it a bit more secure feeling I wanted to use KWalletD to store the signal key encrypted. Signal now even prompt you with a question if you want to do so or not. So easy I thought, quickly enabled it; But to verify I took a look at the logfile and found; It is actually trying to use kwallt6 but can’t. ...

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 battery. The Battery sometimes was overnight discharging to 0% even the laptop was powered off. Also it showed a reduced maximal capacity. In Linux you can check your battery stats quickly with upower -b the old battery looked like this: ...

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 already since long. But Digital Independence Day was a good kick in the ass to finally quit Instagram for real. I’m not here to start a big moral talk… let’s focus on the Tech Aspects of what I did. As you may noted we now have the new Menu entry /photos which offers a small Gallery. Instead of integrating another workflow which is doomed to fail because of my lazyness, I need something easy usable from my Android phone. So I had my pixelfed account laying there, mostly collecting dust. Why not start using it again and integrate it into the blog. This post is about how I wired this up. ...

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 denied error. Even though a plain SSH test to GitHub worked fine. As said, normally I work on my Linux Laptop but during Holidays I –had– to build some csharp stuff in windows. So old pains came back :) ...

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. ...