Review

5 EUR well spent.

Dancing with the devil.

I received a review sample of the LattePanda IOTA, here’s what I did to it.

It has been 0 days since the last change to my home server.

I tried out three different 18650 Li-ion battery bank enclosures that I ordered for very cheap and ended up throwing them all out, here’s why.

I gave the Fairphone Fairbuds XL a go to see how well they stack up in real life. Unfortunately, not that well.

I bought and tested a Ventoy-like device that allows you to boot all sorts of installation media and operating systems, all on one device.

How to turn something as ordinary as an USB-C cable into something that a lot of nerds will want to buy.

It runs Linux and you can peek under the hood if you want to, but that’s not the point.

I’m just as surprised as you are.

I voted with my wallet and bought a Fairphone 5. Here’s what I’ve learned after 1 year and 3 months.

I gave in to my impulses and bought myself a small single board computer to be my power-efficient home server, here’s how it went.

It’s a jet engine with an integrated furnace, but at the same time it fits into the Linux compatibility sweet spot. Not great, not terrible.

All the reasons why I find this particular power bank to be really neat and why it could realistically be the last power bank I buy.

I got a LattePanda V1 and gave it a go as a Raspberry Pi replacement for my self-hosting setup. Here’s how it went.

I’ve tried out newer laptops before and it was nothing short of a disaster. Is this HP any different, or do I need to go back to my ThinkPad T430 again?

I got curious about an ExpressCard to NVMe M.2 NGFF adapter I saw on Reddit, so I got one to try out myself, ending up with a total of 4 SSD-s on my ThinkPad T430. Yes, four.

Small and very efficient, but not quite ideal for all use cases. At least it hasn’t caught on fire yet!

UPS, I did it again 🎵

Quick overview from someone who does this thing as a hobby, focusing on PCIe connectivity, fan control and the poor state of AM4 socket and UEFI upgrades.

Honey, I shrunk my desktop PC!

Or ‘How to downgrade your CPU at great expense!’

How I slapped two hard drives on a long PCIe x1 card.