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
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
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
November 28, 2025 by Mario | Leave a Comment
There seems to be a cultural, logistical, and/or educational disconnect between the meaning of being on time and actually being on time, I was wondering about this for quite a while, but recently I noticed with my daughter (12) that she’s actually genuinely surprised when she says like “be at school at 4.30 to pick […]
Life Rant Thailand
November 26, 2025 by Mario | Leave a Comment
The settling has been completed so far, the cats are happy running around. The house is not very much bigger, it’s just more places to run climb on and other types of cat-fun. There is windows everywhere like before, but is is generally “brighter” due to the lack of surrounding fauna. The only main difference […]
Have you ever been made feel not so smart when asking a question that was actually pretty easy to get the answers to without getting anybody involved Well, this is actually a good way in today’s society where you can leverage other people’s ego for your own benefits. The best part is, you don’t even […]
Showerthoughts
November 22, 2025 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Since i’m not creative at all, but do have alot of brain-farts over the day, my “problem” was to get them out somehow before they vanish into nothingness. Siri is like the worst kind of assistant, even worse than Alexa, yes i said it, sue me! Being a total Apple Fanboy, this hits home hard, […]
IoT Technology
May 28, 2025 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Our daughters new school uses an AI based camera system to check attendances, parents do have access to this informations too (but of course only see related kids) This is a pretty good practical example how AI can do a job that would be impossible or massively expensive without. The school vombines this feature with […]
Life Technology
