My recent blog post, that was basically me just venting my annoyance about tech that is designed to be e-waste soon, did spark a couple of interesting responses. So I figured I might not be the only one interested in living a bit more sustainable. Also recent events and the possibility of Austria and Europe […]
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Unlock your stupid bootloader
Dear tech companies, please stop locking the bootloader of your devices. The second I hand you money and get the device in return it stops being yours and starts being mine. What I choose to do with it is up to me, nobody else. What OS I run on it is up to me. What […]
My highest summit
For some time now I wanted to extend the scope of my blog beyond technology and IT. Both are big parts of my life, but they aren’t my only interest. One of my main non tech hobbies is hiking and climbing which is the first topic of this little excursion away from computers. And what […]
3 Days (more or less) with the PineTime
What is a PineTime? PineTime is a Smartwatch, developed by Pine64 and built on a Nordic Semiconductor nRF52832 SOC. I am currently running InfiniTime on it, at version 1.9. A Linux based OS for this smart watch. It sports a 1.3 inch 240x240px display, is water proof to about 1m of submersion, it has 512kb […]
The thing about knowledge
Knowledge is a tricky thing for human beings. We gather it over the course of our lives and in multiple ways. Some is in our DNA, instincts like eating, breathing, moving away from stuff that frightens us. Some is learned, some from others, some from experience and some is created by our selves. But knowledge […]
A lack of soul
Now prior to getting into this post, please let me state, that my next car will be an EV, so please don’t get too angry with me for writing these words. A look into the past No, this does not mean I believe in the general concept of a soul or that things could have […]
A way too long silence
As some might have noticed, my blog has been silent for a while now, this was due to a lot happening in my private life lately, which I am not going into detail here, but let’s just say most is sorted out by now and with this post more regular updates are planned and going […]
Eating my own words
As some readers might have noticed, a while ago I tried living on a Mac instead of a Linux PC and at the end of the experiment decided to go back to what I was used to using and ditched the Mac in favour of my Ubuntu machine. But, about a month ago, while working […]
JingPad A1 Android App Support
It has been a while since I wrote about the progress of Jing-OS, the “Future Mobile OS based on Linux“, so I figured I should do that again. At the time of writing this post, Jing-OS is at version 1.1.1. The positive things The team at Jingling has put a lot of work into this […]
Looking forward not back
The year to come Many blogs and social media platforms tend to offer a look at the year that passed at this time, but I decided to do things differently so here are things I am looking forward to in 2022 or at least hope will happen. Tech in general, Linux and also non tech […]