In January my new company car finally arrived and this time our choice fell on the VW ID.Buzz, coming from the now discontinued Sharan. It is the newer model with the ID.7s engine, we also went for the long wheel base and seven seater configuration, which comes with the bigger 85 kWh battery. The Tl;Dr […]
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I built myself a watch
Yes, you read that right, I got the parts, learned how to do it and went ahead and assembled a wristwatch. There are two reasons I did this, I for one I was interested in the process and wanted to see if I could get a working watch out of this and how well it […]
My self-hosting odyssey and conclusions
Around the beginning of this year I decided to build myself a new server for my home use. This would be the third iteration of a home server. But it’s been a long road, getting from there to here. Gen 1 Gen 1 was a rather cheap dell poweredge that I got back in 2016 […]
Apples 2024 Update and other annoyances
I know, it’s been a while since the last post, and for good reason, I have been busy with other things that had higher priority. But, good news everyone, I am back! And to keep with the traditions of this blog, I am going to vent my built up anger about everyones favourite fruit manufacturer. […]
The new (home) Server
By trait I am an electronics engineer, although I have never worked in that field and never will, some of that education still remains with my interests and somehow effects my life. One of these things is computers and the things one can do utilising them. Back in 2016 I bought my first home server, […]
Why do enthusiasts hate on quartz watches?
And no, I don’t have an answer, I am honestly asking. But if you are not familiar, there are 3 ways these days to make a watch (more or less). Number one, a mechanical movement, powered by a spiral spring that is slowly unwound and making the balance wheel swing, providing you with a more […]
The thing about (mobile) browsers
I am not old enough to have been a participant in the first browser wars, when they ended 1998 I was about to meet my first computer, which was in 1999, and I couldn’t care less about who made my browser, or my OS for that matter. What was important was that the computer ran […]
One step too far
My first smartphone was an iPhone, the iPhone 4 to be exact. Why? Well back then I was a young man and my girlfriend at the time worked at the biggest mobile carrier in Austria: A1. She got me a good deal on one of these, or the be more precise, I didn’t pay a […]
Looking back, 2023-Edition
Have I done one of the looking back at the year posts yet? I don’t think so, but this year deserves one I guess, I can’t remember the last year so many things have changed, but I am getting ahead of myself, so let’s start at the beginning. There is no point in denying it, […]
Thoughts on watches (and life)
Why do I keep looking at the homepages of Omega, TAG-Heuer, IWC and others like them, why do I keep stopping at the jewellery store near our office in Vienna to gaze upon the watches they have on display? Every single watch in there is insanely expensive and does nothing but telling the time and […]