August 28, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
At least, that’s how it feels. It’s been months since I had a “proper night’s sleep,” due to multiple sources—such as my daughter kicking me at night, the cats starting a fight, and my suffering from massive headaches. On top of that, since about March of this year, I need to go to the bathroom […]
Health
August 11, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Enjoyment of alone time, cut short. Grid voltage just dropped by half for no reason. Safe energy, thai edition:)
Life Rant Thailand TiT
August 10, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
i bought a Raspberry PI 1 back in 2013 or so and used it successfully as a add-on to my Home automation efforts. used a external harddisk as its main drive instead of the SD card (as they do tend to fail rather quickly) this works for multiple years, till the harddisk failed. since then […]
Technology
August 8, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
After spending the last two years being the living alarm clock and “go to bed reminder” for my daughter i decided to put a technical solution to it. using MikroTik hardware since more than 10 years now, its pretty easy to do, just add a forward rule that matched the mac:id and drops the traffic […]
IoT Technology
August 2, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
why is it that since 1947 nobody had the idea to make a Microwave oven stop at the point it started over a certain time? i mean, seriously, this isn;t that hard to accomplish, just turn off the Microwaving elements based on the timer, but keep the plate rotating until it is at the same […]
Rant Showerthoughts
August 1, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
it’s 2:21 (am) .. i just woke up from a very wired dream, was only sleeping like 2 hours (alltough the apple watch did not detect any sleep) the scenes in the dream were maybe 15-20 minutes, in 3 different places (which is also quite strange, as all the dreams i know of happend or […]
Life
July 27, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
made another update on this system, more about this here after making the Cam security thing, i decided to make this actually remotely controll-able. i made a few Home Automation things a few years ago using those camera’s and they are still here. in order to manage “security” meaning when those cams are publicly avaiable, […]
De-Googling (Ethical Alternatives to things hard and software) more DeGoogle This is NOT a anti-Google Rant! it’s about finding a balance.
DeGoogle
July 26, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
i used NordVPN for years, even the security seems pretty decent, you never really know about outside factors, so i decided to just do this by myself. however, this comes with a number of issues and roadblocks that needed to be taken care of. such as: Ease of use wide array of locations for endpoints […]
DeGoogle Technology
July 24, 2024 by Mario | Leave a Comment
Microsoft Windows getting worse every day, i used to make a joke like “the only way to keep Windows stable is if you put the Reboot command in the autostart folder” recently that seems to become more true than ever. the constant spamming is becoming increasingly annoying, like seriously what the fuck? i paid for […]
Rant
