July 6, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
the Gold standard for worry-free System checks (without deeper integration) is clearly Uptimerobot.com, there are others like HetrixTools, but almost all of them are too “linux’y” making a simple task over-complicated. Uptimerobot however had a change in the terms of service back in 2017 and later updated the pricing resulting in free accounts are limited […]
DeGoogle IoT Technology
July 2, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Yes, we are that far already, at least with the Burger King in the gas station here. They have now these order terminals, which is fairly common these days. But Burger King made it one up worse by basically forcing people to use those terminals, as they’re now right in front of the original cashier’s […]
Rant Thailand
June 25, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
The Isuzu D-Max has a digital display that tells you how many kilometers you can drive with the remaining fuel. The problem: once you reach the lower fuel levels and the warning lamp comes on, the display swaps “320 km” (or whatever) for a single, useless message: LOW FUEL. The one moment you actually need […]
Stupid Engineering
June 12, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
It has been roughly a year since my last interaction with Blue Guardian (i wrote about Support tickets turning fraud here) since then: nothing. No follow-up, no apology, no contact of any kind. That changed yesterday. After I left a 1-star review on Trustpilot. On Trustpilot: Publicly, Blue Guardian replied to my review with the […]
SwingFish Trading
May 7, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Well, after years, the time has come where I have to do some drastic steps as the whole money situation now threatens the extended family, and affects people that are not really involved in any of the business as I do. The last straw came from the recent PayPal drama that appeared to happen just […]
Business Life Trading
April 22, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Well, with all the drama happening right now, local domestic problems and several other things, it’s turned out things are not gonna go for the better. I may be gonna end up back in Germany quite soon. To make things worse, PayPal just ransacked our business account for no reason. Well, maybe there is a […]
Business Rant
January 26, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the default “coding assistant” for many developers. A quick function, debug something weird at 3 a.m.? Surely the model has seen this before. And sometimes—it genuinely helps.
Rant Technology
January 23, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Vendor lock-in is one of those problems that rarely shows up on day one. In fact, it often looks like the right decision at the beginning: fewer vendors, one dashboard, simple billing, less mental overhead. It feels efficient, until it isn’t. Looking back, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that vendor lock-in doesn’t […]
Business DeGoogle Technology
January 16, 2026 by Mario | Leave a Comment
After noticing a sharply increasing amount of complaints coming from Namecheaps customers about account troubles they do get. i made the choice to start slowly moving stuff over to Ethernetservers. Ethernetservers is British but has datacenter recourses almost anywhere, the pricing is similar but the performance is significantly better, and on top of that the […]
IoT Technology
December 16, 2025 by Mario | Leave a Comment
well of course the title is a bit clickbaity 😉 our last addition to the family “butter” just went to the VET .. for the usual indoor-treatments, including him being neutralized (not sure how this is properly named) he took it like a man, and just 3 days later eveything was back to normal.
Cats
