Blog on solariz.de - Tech & Thoughts

As written last month in My homeserver is dying in slow motion it just crashed again a day after. Of course while I was in Paris for the EWC so no chance to fix it. In an impulse I decided against another DIY build PC as homeserver and settled with the Aoostar WTR Pro which is a really compact 4-Bay NAS. Aoostar WTR Pro - a NAS? Yes and no. It is basically marketed as a NAS but not like QNAP or Synology, it does not come with a own OS at all. It is basically a mini embeded PC with a AMD 5825U…

And with slowly I mean slowly to the point where it actually not bothering me enough to take action immediatly… Did you ever had that? A piece of Hardware slowly losing it’s reliability but refuses to die properly. It just dies enough to bother but not fully so you actually need to spend money and solve it. Maybe it’s a me problem, but I refuse to replace tech which is actually working. Not because I want to save a few bucks, but becaus well - cite the meme - “This is fine” nad partly it is.…

well, not exactly a normal anime recommendation but close. Still so different that even people who normally skip anime stuff can give it a look. Really, a small piece of man made animation that deserves some minutes of your time if you haven’t heard of it yet. milky☆subway was made by yohei kameyama. he first did a 4 minute short called milky☆highway back in 2022 as his graduation project at kadokawa’s vantan game academy. That one blew up on youtube. So he went and made a full mini series…

Another small this and that post. Blog Stuff I decided to remove all web fonts from my blog, now WOFF2. At the end it was nearly half an MB just for a slightly different font. Well, I used local fonts but still, tiny is better. Also at the footer of each post I integrated a webmention display via webmention.io. Finally for the Blog I updated the /uses page. Home Desktop Win Free 1st of may is a public holiday in germany, I used to extended weekend to debug a small thing which got on my nerves…

As I wrote before, recently I got myself a XTEINK X4, even the blogpost is not that old I got it a little more than a week ago. After using it active several days I can really say the size is the big win and the best argument for this eBook reader. I really keep the habbit to have it in my pocket beside my wallet. It is so tiny it doesn’t hurt and I found myself using it more and more if I need to wait somewhere. Technical Improvements In my first article I wrote I went with the Papyrix…

I mean isn’t it a totaly adult and viable decision to directly buy a tech thing after you read a bunch of blogs writing about it? Yeah, absolutely :) And as some of the Podcasts I listen also mentioned this one I was sold. As you can see on Bubbles how this is really in everyones “mouth” in the last days. What the… ? Well the XTEINK X4 isn’t just a regular boring ebook reader. It’s also not going to replace my 8" ebook reader, but it is tiny, it fits in my palm allowing me to really just have…

Minor Blog Extensions First I added asciinema support to better show some console stuff. ASCIInema allows to record a terminal session in text and replay it as text. So no wasteful GIF or blurry MP4 for just text. You can see the first use of it in this blog in my FZF SSH Parser Article. Then inspired by Naty I also implemented humans.txt [?] and human.json [?] standards to this blog. Im not so big in all the Indieweb standards. But specially in times of AI slob everywhere, it cant hurt to ha...

What it does… As said, fzf is my go to for great shell search and tui’s. Basically add a fuzzy search to everyting you can imagine. But this is not what I want to write about, today I want to show another usecase of fzf in combination with my fish shell. I start using fzf as a SSH config tui. It allows me to type ssh + space and the basically type any hostname or alias from within my .ssh/config to autocomplete and search using up down. See the recording: To run this asciicast without javascr...

This short Article is in addition to my Pockethernet V2 Review I posted last year December. At the time of writing the original Article there was a announced BER Loop Adapter and ID Plugs but not available at that time. Now some time later this changed and I clicked them in the official Pockethernet store. Brief preface; I am neither sponsored by Pockethernet nor have I received anything for free; everything here was purchased by me through normal means and is in regular use by myself. BER Te...